[Rashail]

Are you ready? How do you feel about the exam?

[loved-up-loon]

No way am i ready! I am dreading it!! i have serious issues about french! (eg i cant do it!) What about you?
Any ideas what the short essay will be on? Im hoping for something like what do you want to do when you finsih school, do you want to stay at home etc OR something about family!

[smb]

Im hoping stuff about jobs come up in the directed writing.

Not prepared for anything else, have only sat 1 dw paper in my life.

I've never even seen a real SQA listening paper either!

So, in short, I am going to fail.

[djh1878]

Anyone needing help? I've got my Advanced exam tomorrow!

[smb]

Alright derek.

Give some big chunks of essay I could write for any of the essay topics that could come up.

Have you got any examples of dw essays?

Please

[loved-up-loon]

If by help you mean sitting the exam for me then yeah!
Otherwise can you tell me if this is right:
La ville est toujours animee et on peut rencontrer des gens san difficulte.
and does it mean:
The town is always lively and it is difficult to go out without meeting someone.
(i dont think it does but thats what ive got written down)
thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[xpurple_starsx]

For "it is difficult to go out without meeting someone" I would say something like "C'est difficile de sortir sans rencontrer quelqu'un"

I really don't know if that's absolutely right so don't just take my word for it!

The first part looks fine by the way!

[djh1878]

La ville est toujours animee et on peut rencontrer des gens san difficulte.
and does it mean:
The town is always lively and it is difficult to go out without meeting someone.
(i dont think it does but thats what ive got written down)
thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"La ville est toujours animee et on peut rencontrer des gens sans difficulte."
Meaning - The town is always lively, and you can meet people without difficulty. Or anything similar.

Sharon - Give us a topic, I'll post up some vocab for you!

[djh1878]

Here's some essay phrases to help y'all:

préalablement - beforehand
au premier abord - at first sight
dès l'abord - from the outset
on peut constater (que) - we can see that
avoir du mal à - to have difficulty in
trancher - to make a decision
pour de multiples raisons - for all sorts of reasons
vu que - considering that

[loved-up-loon]

Thanks for the help!

[smb]

Yay! Linking words are so useful

Ok.

have you got any good vocab to do with:

- exchange trips

- the future (im rubbish at speaking about things I would like to do in the future)

[djh1878]

Yay! Linking words are so useful

Ok.

have you got any good vocab to do with:

- exchange trips

- the future (im rubbish at speaking about things I would like to do in the future)

Exchange trips:

le bateau - boat
la traversée - crossing
avoir le pied marin - to "be a good sailor"
le long-courrier - long haul
faire escale - to make a stop-over
les voyages ouvrent l'esprit - travel broadens the mind
reposant - relaxing
le routard - backpacker
faire du tourisme - to go sightseeing
l'hébergement - accommodation
la vie nocturne - nightlife

I would say that I travelled to France by boat, it's different and there's so much more vocab to use!

Future:

l'avenir - future
à l'avenir - in the future
d'abord - first of all
après ca - after that
je voudrais - I would like (add verb infinitive, eg-)
je voudrais travailler - I would like to work
je ne sais pas exactement - I don't know exactly
l'année prochaine - next year

Hope that helps!

[Rashail]

Im hoping stuff about jobs come up in the directed writing.
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Lol - the one thing I don't want to come up!

As for listening essays im hoping for something on family or school

Overall I'm feeling pretty confident as french is my strong subject and I got an A in the prelim

Good luck everyone!

[smb]

thats brilliant, derek

thanks a bunch.

[loved-up-loon]

Im dreading it cause French is my worst!

[cc100]

Bonne chance tout le monde! Et pas de panique!
If there's any more vocab needed, give us a shout.
A wee correction to make from Derek's post:
l'année prochaine (année is fem)
or you can use:
l'an prochain (an is masc)

[smb]

how would you say

"i worked alongside people from different countries"

J’ai travaillée ......... les gens d’autres pays. ??

[loved-up-loon]

i suppose you could change it to with and use avec..

[smb]

yeah i know, but i kinda sounds a bit plain.

[loved-up-loon]

yeah i suppose it does. sorry im not much help im kinda rubbish at french!