French Edexcel 19 June 2012

Ahh that translation was very hard.. I thought the first essay was quite hard as well.. I chose the one about people who work harder should earn more.. but I think I might have misinterpreted it a bit..

The literature essay was hard, so I chose region instead which was very nice! It asked about tradition so i talked about the wine tradition and the old towns and about the local dialect

In the second essay I notice that 30 marks are for research, so I think I put about 10 figures in my essay and mentioned quite a few town names, the name of the dialect, and some other stuff.. would that be good enough to get me a decent mark even though I used quite basic French in the second one?



Oh, and I think the boundaries will be relatively low, maybe 57/100 for a B again

with all the topics we discussed during the year.. such random discursive essays. But I guess that's edexcel
I did the life expectancy one...
and the translation meh, I forgot how to say warm up, and i'm hoping provisions in french is 'provisions' (but with a french accent :P)

literature question was probably the worst - took me ages to get my head around it and relate it to the play I studied. I'm worried I may've deviated a bit :/ Did any one do L'avare by Moliere??

Yeah, I think that was a pretty hard paper overall.. I can see the A boundary being about 65/100. Probably the hardest translation out of all the papers, and the essays weren't nice.


I also got confused about if I was answering the question, in the first one I was writing about how people such as farmers work long hours but don't get paid as much as some people who work in a bank for 5 days a week for a few hours, where the question was 'In an equal society, those who work harder should earn more, do you agree etc?' It had me thinking for quite a while but oh well.

I did L'avare, I wrote about how the only good thing he did was when he was blackmailed, but how there were plenty of examples of him being bad, and so the statement was false. But it was hard!

And provisions is provisions, and to heat is chauffer (I guessed that!), but did anyone know how to say "Let us hope"?

oooh yay :P and i wrote chauffer but people were saying it was rechauffer?
For let us hope i put on espere que + subjunctive. Don't know if that will count..

The whole 'hero' thing just threw me off.. I wrote about Valere, good because he fights so hard for elise, respected character etc.. but at the same time knows how to manipulate/lie and flatter harpagon. But then also wrote about how this statement isn't true with all moliere characters as he uses exaggerated onesided characters like harpagon.. ah it was all over the place

Isn't rechauffer to reheat? I'm confused, I looked it up and it said chauffer is to heat. Not that it matters, it's 1/3 of a mark.

I think I failed the lit. question, simply 'cause Harpagon isn't a hero. But I didn't know what else to write! If is had good research but slightly off topic, d'you think I'd only lose marks on organisation, 'cause those marks aren't high.

was the last sentence in the translation spose to be subjunctive or did it have to be future? cos i wrote esperons que... then subjunctive, but it said "will have" so i didnt know if it was spose to be future hahah
did anyone do les choristes?
also, did the literature question have to be balanced? cos the good guy in les choristes didnt do anythng bad! lol
what grades is everyone hoping to get?

I really didn't like the lit question but had no choice but to do it definitely messed up on that one as it was really hard to relate to the question well :/

I did the working hard one too! Think some of my arguments went a bit off topic.
I really didn't like the lit question but had no choice but to do it definitely messed up on that one as it was really hard to relate to the question well :/
The translation was hard! I had a total blank and forgot how to say spring or summer *doh*

oh shoot, i didnt know what that word meant so i didnt mention anything about "equal society" haha do you think i will lose many marks for that?
yea but because it was spose to be a balanced arguement and it was asking "should they" i didnt know what to write for why they shouldnt earn more haha

was the last sentence in the translation spose to be subjunctive or did it have to be future? cos i wrote esperons que... then subjunctive, but it said "will have" so i didnt know if it was spose to be future hahah
did anyone do les choristes?
also, did the literature question have to be balanced? cos the good guy in les choristes didnt do anythng bad! lol
what grades is everyone hoping to get?

Students would be expected to undertake in-depth study of a substantial target-language text, play or film. They would need to consider and demonstrate understanding of the following:
• different characters
• keythemes/issues
• social and cultural setting
• styles/techniques employed.

naah I don't think it had to be balanced, if the good guy didn't do anything bad then you just say you disagree with the statement :P

I wrote esperer que + subjunctive but I think I may be wrong too :/