id have to agree with ronyag for the oral make sure your answers are long not just a couple of words and dont mention anything you dont want to talk about (but do cover these areas) if your smart about it you spend the whole oral talking about want you want also try to use different tense. you can also use the stuff you learn for the oral in the writting . but make sure you do loads of question

i love french and i can tell you how to do well. for the written part of the exam, work on the papers, build up your vocab. depends what kind of teacher you have, but any new word you come across, put it in a vocab hardback. for the oral, prepare long answers to the questions in an oral notebook. you might wanna leave a few pages after each topic, because your teacher will give you good phrases to use and it will improve your answer, memorize your answers, and say them out loud in front of a mirror. for the aural, watch euronews in french, if you have the channel. seriously, this will boost your listening, you don't have to understand everything, but if you can keep up and hear a few words, you'll do really well in the actual l.c. aural. listen to the news regularly and you'll boost up your skills.

it was the french oral today but fuck it I made it up most of the way and it went grand Il use that for next week tho, cheers

thanks guys, are they exam craft?

i had DEB HL and yeah there was a formal letter about applying for a foreign exchange

@EimearOD thankk youu

i had the same exam as @EimearOD, the other 90 mark question was on media, then there was a question on kids spending their time in front of the tv, a question on religion and teens going to mass and then them other ones already mentioned

thanks a mill

i had that one too, theres also one on no work in ireland

Typical mock! Alcohol and food! I'd be surprised if the actual thing looks anything like that. Unemployment very likely tho.

no problem hun u do pass irish ? il send u what i can.. yeah could you send me ur answers and all to the topical issues..phrases and vocab..thanks so much hun..ur a wee star..wil send u what i have saved on the comp already..whats ur email ?xx

send me ur email and il sent ya those french notes as soon as i can... x

cutelilangel79@hotmail.com .. thanks so mch hun xxx

Sorry to peel peeps.. But I'm new to this thing. And are you sayin racism, drugging in sports, and the other ones you mentioned are the French comprehension topics? :O I'm so screwed

"se faire un sang d'encre" = to be worried sick

Hope these help people!!

You would'nt happen to have any really useful phrases on the benefits of the mocks leading up to the Leaving cert please ? Thanks !!

I'll have a think and get back to ya but the good thing about the type of phrases above is that you can use them to talk about almost anything. You can say:

'On entend souvent critiquer les examens blancs'. Ces détracteurs déclarent que ces examens comptent pour du beurre. Mais quand on passe les examens blancs, les notes qu'on recoit permettent a tous les étudiants de remettre l'ouvrage sur le métier pour l'améliorer avant le vrai examen.'