[Noel]

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?

[Conzors]

Ive been doing plenty of orals.

Not so uch for GCSE though.

[Ross]

Originally posted by Bradley!

Anyone else been doing orals, GCSE or A-Level?

Lol bit of a stupid question really.

Anyway, goodluck with all your exams Bradley.

[Noel]

Originally posted by Ross

Lol bit of a stupid question really.

Anyway, goodluck with all your exams Bradley.

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

[Noel]

Originally posted by Conzors
Ive been doing plenty of orals.

Not so uch for GCSE though.

Mingggggg...
Conor you're sucha slimedawg.

[Conzors]

Lol.

[Sam!]

I did my German and Spanish ones before Easter

[Scarlett.]

Oral is never the way to get a GCSE

[*mazedsalv**]

Originally posted by Chewy
Oral is never the way to get a GCSE

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

[SiaSiaSia]

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!

[*mazedsalv**]

Originally posted by SiaSiaSia
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!

[Spike]

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

[SiaSiaSia]

Originally posted by *mazedsalv**

wow well done Sia!

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

[Noel]

Originally posted by SiaSiaSia
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, 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?

[Christina]

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

[Noel]

Originally posted by Christina
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.

[LemonJam]

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. :|

[Sam!]

Originally posted by LemonJam
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.

[SiaSiaSia]

Originally posted by Bradley!

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?

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

[Noel]

Originally posted by SiaSiaSia

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