WJEC French FN4 - 14th June 2016

Yeah was all a bit odd idk

I didn't notice any subjunctive although I forgot to put de Noel for Christmas tree xD I didn't know what to put for 'on Christmas' either so I just went with 'le Noel'?

Do the last sentence ('for food that you haven't eaten' -> 'Pour la nourriture que vous n'aurez pas mangée?

I put simply "que vous n'avez pas mangé"

"Vous n'aurez pas" = you will not have

+ how did you guys translate "supposed to"? I put "vous DEVRIEZ"

oh, right, we never did learn direct object pronouns very well thank you for teaching me something new! (even though i never have to do french again ... ehehe)

ohhhh rats ;_; thank you! let's just hope i did alright on the rest of it hahaha

La journée de Nouvel An! Had no clue whatsoever haha.


Anyone wants to share their answers for the reading section? I was so thrown off...felt like they were asking the same questions lol? The one about Madagascar? I put that it helps to cease any prejudice that people might have toward les handicapés...

How did people translate which bin to throw their rubbish in?
I think I put something along the lines of "la poubelle dans laquelle on devrait jeter ses déchets" but I'm not sure

That's grammatically correct and i'm sure the MS will give lots of options. I put 'Dans quelle poubelle il faut jeter vos déchets'

I agree other than "mangée"*
And same for vous devriez




If it's any consolation you'll only lose 1 mark for mangé


Is new years day not Le revéillon? It was in the text




The exact translation for that sentence was at the start of the text how did you not see it? remember there was a question in the reading like: What do French people find difficult?

(Ils ne savent pas) dans quelle poubelle jeter leurs déchets

It's funny bcos it was translated directly from french to english for the translation so it stood out as weird: they don't know in which bin to throw their rubbish


Also, did everyone get "by sorting their rubbish" as en triant leurs déchets

(Edit: i dont remember the translation word for word but u get what i mean. Wasnt it "you are supposed to know in which bin to throw your rubbish"? So "vous devriez savoir dans quelle pouble jeter vos déchets"

Le réveillon means "eve" and the translation said "day"

I agree other than "mangée"*
And same for vous devriez




If it's any consolation you'll only lose 1 mark for mangé


Is new years day not Le revéillon? It was in the text




The exact translation for that sentence was at the start of the text how did you not see it? remember there was a question in the reading like: What do French people find difficult?

(Ils ne savent pas) dans quelle poubelle jeter leurs déchets

It's funny bcos it was translated directly from french to english for the translation so it stood out as weird: they don't know in which bin to throw their rubbish


Also, did everyone get "by sorting their rubbish" as en triant leurs déchets

(Edit: i dont remember the translation word for word but u get what i mean. Wasnt it "you are supposed to know in which bin to throw your rubbish"? So "vous devriez savoir dans quelle pouble jeter vos déchets")

I used the exact sentence out of the resource text too! Though of course I altered the savoir bit to fit in with the translation.

And yeah I said en triant leurs déchets


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Where did y'all get that en triant business lol what question was that 😭😭😭

Nah I would say passé composé.. what merits the future?

The sentence started off with 'you will need' so 'vous aurez besoin de' and then goes on to say 'for food you haven't eaten' but the fact the need is in the future specifies that it's for food than you will not have eaten?

It's like the rule about age, in English we say, when i'm 18 I will go to university, but in French they say 'Quand j'aurai dix-huit ans, j'irai a l'université' so they use the future

I don't know if it would have applied in the
same sense but that's my logic?

The sentence started off with 'you will need' so 'vous aurez besoin de' and then goes on to say 'for food you haven't eaten' but the fact the need is in the future specifies that it's for food than you will not have eaten?

It's like the rule about age, in English we say, when i'm 18 I will go to university, but in French they say 'Quand j'aurai dix-huit ans, j'irai a l'université' so they use the future

I don't know if it would have applied in the same sense but that's my logic?

@FrenchUnicorn qu'est-ce que tu dirais?
La phrase à traduire c'était "you will need a bin for glass, another for plastic, a third for (?) and a fourth for food that you haven't eaten"
Alors ça mérite quel temps "that you haven't eaten"?

-> tu vas avoir besoin d'une poubelle pour le verre, une autre pour le plastique, une troisième pour (pas compris pourquoi y a un point d'interrogation ici ?) ; et une quatrième pour la nourriture non consommée

Good you haven't eaten is literally -> la nourriture que tu n'as pas mangée
But we're more likely to use "nourriture non consommée"

The debate is over the choice of tense, because the sentence started with "you will need" which most of us have translated as "vous aurez besoin de", so then would you have to say "la nourriture que vous n'aurez pas mangée", or "que vous n'avez pas mangée"?