French worries

Conors10262

Hi there im really worried about my leaving cert mocks for french im doing higher level and i literally dont have a notion. Could somebody please please please give me some sentences that could be applied to any written piece i have ones for the journal intime but for the rest i really am worried thank you please please reply

kingcobra

They're called idioms and I reckon if you do a Google search a lot will come up. But anyway here's a few I use

Il est hors de doute que - It is clear that
La question fait donc à nouveau couleur beacoup d'encre - A lot of ink has been spilled once again over the issue
Ayant pesé le pour et le contre - Having weighed up the pro's & cons
En guise de conclusion - In conclusion
Il faut examiner le revers de la médaille - You have to look at the other side of the argument
Voir la vie d'une bonne côté - To look on the bright side of life
A quelque chos malheur est bon - Every cloud has a silver lining
N'oublions pas non plus - Let's not forget either
Il en va de même pour - The same goes for
En un mot - In a nutshell (in one word)

C'est ça!

ray2012

First of all, make sure you know your tenses (Past, present and future tenses for sure, and as you're doing higher level you should learn the conditional and imperfect tenses). If you know those tenses, it's a lot easier to construct answers for the written section.
In your answers you could use phrases like :

Il va sans dire que - It goes without saying that
Tout d'abord - First of all
Pour conclure - For conclusion
Je suis d'accord avec cette déclaration - I agree with this statement
La solution c'est simple! - The solution is simple
Il faut qu'on fasse(subj.) quelque chose - It's necessary that we do something
C'est un grand problème de nos jours - It's a big problem nowadays
C'est une histoire complètement differente - It's a completely different story
À mon avis - In my opinion
D'après moi - According to me
Je tiens de l'opinion que - I hold the opinion that
Qui vivra verra - Time will tell
Quoi faire? - What to do?
On doit faire plus pour sensibiliser l'opinion parmi - We must do more to make the opinion more aware amongst
etc. etc. etc.

The list is endless. You don't have to have a whole lot of phrases, just learn ones that can be used in any answer and stick them in. They don't have to be complicated ones either. I'm sure Google can help with phrases if you want more. :P

Canard

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=82620929&postcount=2 Here's a post I made about this very thing a while ago, hope it helps.

EvM

Patchy~ wrote: »

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=82620929&postcount=2 Here's a post I made about this very thing a while ago, hope it helps.

Perfect, those were exactly what I was looking for. Thanks a lot !

DanaScully

Hi there, there are useful sentences for my English! Thanks

But be careful as there are mistakes, I corrected them in bold below:

La question fait COULER beaucoup d'encre
Voir la vie du bon côté
A quelque chose malheur est bon
"Il est hors de doute" is not idiomatic : Il ne fait aucun doute que

Voilà

kingcobra wrote: »

They're called idioms and I reckon if you do a Google search a lot will come up. But anyway here's a few I use

Il est hors de doute que - It is clear that
La question fait donc à nouveau couleur beacoup d'encre - A lot of ink has been spilled once again over the issue
Ayant pesé le pour et le contre - Having weighed up the pro's & cons
En guise de conclusion - In conclusion
Il faut examiner le revers de la médaille - You have to look at the other side of the argument
Voir la vie d'une bonne côté - To look on the bright side of life
A quelque chos malheur est bon - Every cloud has a silver lining
N'oublions pas non plus - Let's not forget either
Il en va de même pour - The same goes for
En un mot - In a nutshell (in one word)

C'est ça!

kingcobra

DanaScully wrote: »

Hi there, there are useful sentences for my English! Thanks

But be careful as there are mistakes, I corrected them in bold below:

La question fait COULER beaucoup d'encre
Voir la vie du bon côté
A quelque chose malheur est bon
"Il est hors de doute" is not idiomatic : Il ne fait aucun doute que

Voilà

Sorry 'chose' was just a typo. But wow, I did copy them word for word but it's clear that you're right. But thanks a million for that and apologies to anyone who copied mine