Leaving Cert '11/'12 Off-Topic 2

Togepi

Last minute French question if anyone's awake! In a formal letter, should it be "je vous envoyer..." or "je vous envoie..."? (Posting it here as well as in the French thread 'cause people will probably only see it there when it's too late.) :P

Coeurdepirate

Togepi wrote: »

Last minute French question if anyone's awake! In a formal letter, should it be "je vous envoyer..." or "je vous envoie..."? (Posting it here as well as in the French thread 'cause people will probably only see it there when it's too late.) :P

Je vous envoie! You wouldn't say je être or je avoir, so you don't say je envoyer either bonne chance!

Togepi

Coeurdepirate wrote: »

Je vous envoie! You wouldn't say je être or je avoir, so you don't say je envoyer either bonne chance!

That's what I thought! Silly beginning-of-the-year me. :pac: Merci, et vous aussi!

Coeurdepirate

Merci!



Guys, when you're talking about the olympics would you refer to them in the singular or the plural? Like would you say "ils soulignent l'importance du sport et du travail d'équipe" or "il souligne l'importance du sport et du travail d'équipe" ?

PictureFrame

Coeurdepirate wrote: »

Merci!



Guys, when you're talking about the olympics would you refer to them in the singular or the plural? Like would you say "ils soulignent l'importance du sport et du travail d'équipe" or "il souligne l'importance du sport et du travail d'équipe" ?

I think the Olympics is singular!

Coeurdepirate

PictureFrame wrote: »

I think the Olympics is singular!

well it's les jeux olympique so it's plural. like you'd say "les jeux olympiques soulignent l'importance de..." but I dunno whether you'd use "il(s) souligne(nt) l'importance de..." since you're referring directly to the olympics it's prob plural but ugh, i dunno!

Mysteriouschic

Bonne chance en Francais!

reznov

Good luck in French everybody!

Fergus_

I'm finished my exams today, I was one of the "lucky" ones with all the exams condensed in one week.

Good luck to those with exams, and thank you all for putting up with my dopey questions

Fluffycloud

What was the exam like hons level? What came up? Hope you guys did ok.

Eathrin

Best French exam eva.
Definitely got my B3.
And that's all I wanted:D Something which doesn't deviate too much from the rest of my exams.

Mysteriouschic

Finished French went pretty grand although I couldn't remember what the word for "today" in French was I ended up writing "quand" and I didn't know what the word for "lake" was either.
Fleur from Harry Potter came up in one of the French texts.
I think there was a question asking what I thought about the French economy or something :S it went better than last year anyway.
I reckon I got a C as long as it's not a D .

I didn't know how to say my birthday is today. I just remembered I wrote "I am 18 when" I should've just written today in english.

Coeurdepirate

What a beautiful exam, pretty confident of my a!

Mysteriouschic

How early did you's finish your French exam?
I was finished after an hour and 15mins .

Togepi

Neither happy nor unhappy with French... If this was me last year I'd be delighted and would be positive I had gotten an A, but I've learned from last year's B2. :pac: Not ruling out an A (hopefully an A1!) but I'm not going to take it for granted that I got higher than a B1 either. I'll know in August. :cool:

Comprehensions were grand. Essays were grand. (Ran out of time on the diary entry though, but I still wrote about 170 words for it, at a glance anyway.) Aural was grand (apart from two or three dodgy questions).

"Be grand," they said. 'Twas grand.

:P

Eathrin

Question. When they say around 75 words, was it preferable to keep it to around 75?
It's just that, my 80 words or so looks feeble compared to the 200 some people would write:L

Eathrin

Quelques naggins, il sera bon.

Mysteriouschic

I keep listening to Bryan Adams lately I don't know why :L.
Motivational song .
I should be cramming business .

Togepi

Oh yeah, week two of the Leaving - complete!!

Two exams next week and I'm done forever! (Again...) :cool: :P

Togepi

Mysteriouschic wrote: »

How early did you's finish your French exam?
I was finished after an hour and 15mins .

I was still writing just as he said "30 seconds left" to me because the other ones left in the centre had left 2 minutes earlier. Signed off my diary then so I'd say I finished with about 10 seconds to spare. :P I was finished 20 minutes early last year, and I wrote loads then, dunno how I was so pushed for time this year, thought I'd have a while to read over it!

finality

I don't know how people can finish exams early. I've been the last or second last to leave all of mine so far.

Eathrin

finality wrote: »

I don't know how people can finish exams early. I've been the last or second last to leave all of mine so far.

Clearly you are inferior.

finality

Eathrin wrote: »

Clearly you are inferior.

Clearly :P

Eathrin

Togepi wrote: »

I was still writing just as he said "30 seconds left" to me because the other ones left in the centre had left 2 minutes earlier. Signed off my diary then so I'd say I finished with about 10 seconds to spare. :P I was finished 20 minutes early last year, and I wrote loads then, dunno how I was so pushed for time this year, thought I'd have a while to read over it!

How much did you write? I only did 3 production écrite questions, between 80 and 120 words about. Though you get so much time in French. My friend last year did all 8 possible questions with time to spare.

FaoiSin

Irish Paper 1 was ridiculous for timing. We were all just staring around the place after finishing about an hour into the exam.

ChemHickey

YeaaahFaoiSin wrote: »

Irish Paper 1 was ridiculous for timing. We were all just staring around the place after finishing about an hour into the exam.

Eh.....

I took my time with Irish. For the first 25 mins I drew up a whole plan and gathered phrases. My friend left when I just started my debate! I was in there to the very end, double/triple/quadruple checking everything! I finished the essay with 10mins to go so I just rechecked for the last 10mins. I'm happy we've 2 hours. I don't see why people would complain!! :L

Togepi

Eathrin wrote: »

How much did you write? I only did 3 production écrite questions, between 80 and 120 words about. Though you get so much time in French. My friend last year did all 8 possible questions with time to spare.

I did three, I never do any more than that! Wrote 170ish for the diary, about 230 for Q3 (a) and I'd say 240 for Q1 (b). Those are just approximations though, I wrote an average of 232 words for them in the mocks, and I did almost the same amount this time. What did your friend get in French?! They can't have done well if they spent so little time on each essay. :eek:

YeaaahFaoiSin wrote: »

Irish Paper 1 was ridiculous for timing. We were all just staring around the place after finishing about an hour into the exam.

I stayed in for the whole exam. Only person in the country to do so? Probably. :P

FaoiSin

Not complaining :P I wrote out a prepared essay in about 40 minutes and added a few extra bits. I can see how it's useful if you're making it up on the day though as I would've done the same had my essay not came up but 2 hours is a bit extreme :pac:

AyeeBoyy

YeaaahFaoiSin wrote: »

Irish Paper 1 was ridiculous for timing. We were all just staring around the place after finishing about an hour into the exam.

I did 2 eassys just for funs and still left half an hour early, far too much time. Better than having too little but

PictureFrame

I totally forgot about the word limit in the French exam I just got carried away in the question!

In Q.1 (A) I filled every line and the same in Q.3 (A) :eek: