

Higher French 2004
#1
Posted 25 May 2004 - 12:09 PM
I think that the reading was quite hard but i managed to get answers for every question so i suppose it wasnt too bad. However, the listening was a nitemare i thot is was soo fast, faster than b4 i think. The writing were ok though!!
So overall it was ok i think/hope!
#2
Posted 25 May 2004 - 12:25 PM
The listening was awful! It was going so fast, then you had to turn the page half way through the recording lol. Only noticed coz I heard everyone else doing it!
The writings were fine though, just the usual in paper 1, and the listening essay was on a good topic

#3
Posted 26 May 2004 - 08:37 PM
directed writing was ok although i don't think i mad eit clear i was doing all my activities with other people

reading- i actually found tehre ading quite difficult especially at the beginning (ie q1a

listening was absolutely awful.


essay question was really good and i had a question prepared that fitted it perfectly. It took me like 5 minutes to write it and then i jsut went back writing random stuff about why the Belgians like france!
I don't really care if i sound up myself here, french is teh only subject that i can say that i really was certain i'd get an A in. Now,however, i feel i'll be lucky to scrape a B!! Luckily i got good marks for speaking (predicted 25 marks


The difference between this years and aslt years exam is outrageous..lasts years one was pish , this years one...





Cows are magnificent,
Cows I call them "moos",
And sometimes silly folk,
They call my moos "coos".
#4
Posted 27 May 2004 - 01:22 PM
QUOTE (lesley @ May 26 2004, 08:37 PM) |
listening was absolutely awful. ![]() ![]() |
Couldnt agree more the listening was reallt hard. I am crap at the listening so i was only aiming for half marks n i really dont no if i even got that!
I was reading an article in a paper where as these language experts n teachers were saying that the listning was too hard!!!
#5
Posted 28 May 2004 - 03:33 PM

I didn't think the reading was too bad - but it took me ages to find the answer to the first question! I didn't really know which bit they were looking for so I practially translated the whole of the first paragraph!
The listening was a bit too fast I thought, but I was quite happy with most of my answers, until the rest of my class started comparing answers after and I realised I'd made a few mistakes! However, I thought both the directed writing and the personal response essay were ok, I did quite a lot about future plans in my speaking exam so I just quoted a lot of that

What kind of sporting events did people write about? I wrote about a netball tournament, but I'm not sure if I wrote enough about the actual event, most of my essay was taken up with what I did during the day (visiting the Eiffel Tour etc)
Oh well, least we don't have to worry about it now til August


Good Luck everyone!
#6
Posted 28 May 2004 - 04:10 PM
QUOTE (Laura @ May 28 2004, 03:33 PM) |
What kind of sporting events did people write about? I wrote about a netball tournament, but I'm not sure if I wrote enough about the actual event, most of my essay was taken up with what I did during the day (visiting the Eiffel Tour etc) |
yeah mine was like that too. I was in an athletics tournament but i only wrote about four sentences or sumthin bout it! lol!
Most o my class were like tht too!
#7
Posted 28 May 2004 - 04:17 PM
#8
Posted 28 May 2004 - 04:19 PM
QUOTE (superstar @ May 28 2004, 04:10 PM) | ||
yeah mine was like that too. I was in an athletics tournament but i only wrote about four sentences or sumthin bout it! lol! Most o my class were like tht too! |
lol! glad to find someone else like me!

Should be ok as long as what we did write about the sporting event was pretty accurate. On the whole I think I did ok

#9
Posted 28 May 2004 - 04:33 PM

Cows are magnificent,
Cows I call them "moos",
And sometimes silly folk,
They call my moos "coos".
#10
Posted 28 May 2004 - 04:40 PM
QUOTE (lesley @ May 28 2004, 04:33 PM) |
all i said about the sporting event was that i played at netball and football, i played well and the day was good. French teacher said that would be fine. |
All I said was:
"Throughout the week we played four netball matches and we won them all. We were very happy!"
The last bit sounds a bit lame, but I thought I'd better put a bit more than just one sentence!


#11
Posted 28 May 2004 - 04:54 PM
most of my essay was the other bullet points
#12
Posted 31 May 2004 - 02:49 PM
Everyone I know thought the listening was too fast, so we're all all right.

#13
Posted 31 May 2004 - 03:39 PM
QUOTE (Lindsay @ May 31 2004, 02:49 PM) |
The essays were Ok, but I'm crap with verbs so that's what'll let me down, I know it. But HOW HARD WAS THE LISTENING?! It was so fast it was unbelievable. Last year's exam was nothing like that. Everyone I know thought the listening was too fast, so we're all all right. ![]() |
I no the listening was unbelievable and thats my worst bit anyway!! Which is gr8! I knew it would b hard but that was awful! Worse than i had expected!!!!

Good to no u felt the same way Lindsay!!
#14
Posted 31 May 2004 - 04:27 PM
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#17
Posted 01 June 2004 - 01:56 PM

What topics did people choose to do their speaking presentations on?
I did mine on Home Area, coz I thought that was one of the easier topics to talk at length about. I also put in a bit about future plans and university (about where I would like to live in the future etc) which came in quite useful in this years personal response essay!


#18
Posted 01 June 2004 - 02:38 PM
#19
Posted 01 June 2004 - 03:05 PM
One girl in my class got three chances to record hers, which was an outrage. =/ I wish she'd failed. But I'm mean.
#20
Posted 01 June 2004 - 05:43 PM

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