GCSE Orals
 

I did my French GCSE oral today, and I'm SOO glad it's over! I've been dreading it for months and it's finally over! And, I did VERY well, if I do say so myself! But, now I have to study for my German oral, which is on Tuesday at the same time as my art display:/ Languages are betchess..but I love 'em :)
Anyone else been doing orals, GCSE or A-Level?

Ive been doing plenty of orals.

Not so uch for GCSE though.

;)

Lol bit of a stupid question really.

Anyway, goodluck with all your exams Bradley. :thumbs:

Lol. Hows it stupid? :S
EDIT: and thanks! :) lol.

Mingggggg...
Conor you're sucha slimedawg. :rolleyes:

Lol.

I did my German and Spanish ones before Easter :thumbs:

Oral is never the way to get a GCSE :nono:

I know but its just so tempting and great :blush:
...... anyway, i did my italian oral on Wednesday.

Well done!

Here are my orals I've done;


French GCSE Mock January 2008: 39/50 (A)
German GCSE Mock January 2008: 40/50 (A)
French GCSE Real thing March 2008: 85/90 (A*)
German GCSE Real thing March 2008: 78/90 (A)
French AS Level mock Februrary 2009: 43/50 (A)
German AS Level Mock March 2009: 41/50 (A) (Only A in class!)
German AS Level Real thing April 2009: -- was aaaaawful, but I'll find out this summer-
French AS Level Real thing May 2009: in 2 weeks!

wow well done Sia!:thumbs:

Well done for doing it, hope you get the result you hope for
I hated doing my French one for GCSE
I was bad at French anyway, had a bad memory and can't talk under pressure without stumbling so before I started I thought I was going to fail.
But I got through it, just, with a B which was fine for me

Hahaha thanks I guess but my real german one will break my A chain :'(

Wow well done, you wee linguist. lol.
Here, what are French and German like as AS, because I've chosen to do both for A-Level? Is it hard doing 2 languages and are the orals harder?

Well done i have mine on Thursday and i honestly am bricking it.. French and Math scare me so much :(

Thanks! Honestly, I know it's nerve racking before it and all, but once you get in there, it's all gurrrd, well as long as you have it all learnt off. :) It's best to relax as overworrying will just make you forget everythangg. lol.

We had to do French for GCSE and I sucked at it, badly, but I still got a B somehow.

In my Oral, I said I wore a giant skirt in winter. :|

haha! In my German I forgot all the subjects and said 'I hate german, its really stupid' lol.

lol I'm not really a linguist, my reading/writing/listening is rather poor
AS French and German:

French is very good and very interesting, I've managed to learn alot (obv this is v subjective like cos of teaching) because i'm only in a class of 7 of us.

German is harder as we're in a larger class and they're very noisy. German is also really hard - a bigger step up from GCSE, but it's still quite good

For languages you really have to do alot of work - never slack back on homework and stuff! My GCSE French and German was very, very poor especially French - my French grammar was terrible! And now I can do loads of things which is now in-built :) ouais

It isn't as hard as I thought about doing 2 languages at AS-level, and I'm not even a natural linguist! But I have worked hard (esp in French - my german not so much :P) and it's still difficult! If you love languages though you should do it :) I do not regret at all doing both French and German, despite my mum saying that I wouldn't manage and it would be too hard etc (HA TO HER!)

The orals are naturally harder, because you'd have had 5 hours lessons of French and German for about 7 months before your oral.
I'm on AQA and we have to:

- We have two cards, with a picture on, and writing, and we have 20 minutes to write about it and prepare it, then we say it in the oral
- 5 minutes on an assigned topic (mine was Sport for French and Healthy Living for German) where you have 5 sub topics you've written on a card (For german, it said: Health and sport, Smoking and the smoking ban, Alcohol and young people, Eating disorders and Illegal Drugs and their consequences) but they only asked me on health and sport damnit :(
- 5 minutes conversation on absolutley anything (i got the cinema and family - my worst two topics :|)

It's not like the GCSE where you learn things off by heart though sadly

Oooh okay. Trying to learn my German oral stuff today really made me reconsider doing it for A-Level. A lot of it is just so complicated. I HATE the word "weil". Why must it be so complicated?! But I do like the sound of the A-Level orals though, as I find when I am asked to make up something on the spot, I'm fine. :) It will probably be slightly different as my exam board is CCEA.
Thanks for the help, Sia! Yer a weeeee star :D