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Comment on Moins de neige – French Oral Preparation by barneymc

barneymc — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:57:11 +0000

Basically the document is there to kick-start a conversation.
You may have been a few minutes into the oral talking about general introduction, who you are, where you live, you rfamily, school, what you like doing in your spare time…those type of questions.

After this the examiner will ask you about the document.
So simple questions to start :
(do them in English first! This may sound obvious, but make sure it’s clear in your head in English…).

Say for example you have a photograph of a wedding you were at recently and you were bridesmaid…..

who is in the photograph ?
where/when was it taken ?

J’ai été demoiselle d’honneur au mariage de ma tante.

why did she chose you ?
What did you have to do as bridesmaid before the wedding…?
Did you organise a hen party ? soirée pour enterrer une vie de jeunne fille

Was there music ? a band ? How many people were at the wedding? (Combien de personnes ?)
Where did they go on their honeymoon ? partir en voyage de noces …?

This part of the conversation may only last 3-4 minutes but it’s your opportunity to shine and display your pronunciation and vocabulary and pick up some easy marks. Make sure you have learned off any words surrounding the topic of weddings – its not something you probably studied in class…

So for this you will need to understand the start of the question : who/where/why….
Check out the blog post on : http://frenchgrinds.ie/BLOG/moins-de-neige-french-oral-preparation/ for this …

If you want to try getting your answers together in french I’d be happy to correct them if you need help

best of luck,
Brendan

Comment on Moins de neige – French Oral Preparation by Louise

Louise — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:42:40 +0000

hey how are you, I’m wondering what would be suitable to bring into the exam as a document.. ive no idea

HELLLP please

Comment on Leaving Cert French Oral by Trop de Snow pour Le Leaving Cert | frenchgrinds.ie

Trop de Snow pour Le Leaving Cert | frenchgrinds.ie — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:38:52 +0000

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Comment on Live Chat by barneymc

barneymc — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:08:56 +0000

@paul lowther Just type something in the Meebo chat box and I will reply directly...no need to email.

Comment on Live Chat by paul lowther

paul lowther — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:31:15 +0000

hi wat is ur email address so i can talk wit u in french on meebo?

Comment on Le/La – Back to basics by barneymc

barneymc — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:54:38 +0000

When the word is “le livre” or “la voiture” it is obvious that the first noun is masculing (LE) and the second noun is feminine (LA). So, following on from that we would know that adjectives would agree with the gender of the noun – la grande voiture, le grand livre etc [We will cover this in a later post, don't worry.]

But with l’oiseau it’s not obvious whether the noun is masculine or feminine…..
Well in this case it’s masculine. So we would get….

Regard l’oiseau, c’est un petit oiseau [Look at the bird, it's a small bird].

Again there are no shortcuts to knowing these apart from learning them off.

Comment on Le/La – Back to basics by Sean

Sean — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 09:47:35 +0000

What is l’ so? Is this masculine or feminine ?

Comment on French Grinds Online by Jim

Jim — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:49:49 +0000

@Jim Yes, time allowing I will be adding more content links via Apture so you can view the YouTube videos without leaving the website.

Comment on French Grinds Online by Jim

Jim — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:47:23 +0000

Can we see more of the online tutorials ?

Comment on Submiting written assignments by barneymc

barneymc — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:15:18 +0000

Sounds like a great idea. Need to ensure that the submit cformsII page is working.