AQA A2 French- 19th JUNE 2012

Yep that's correct. In a conference we went to they said that although you do have to give a lot of evidence it doesn't always have to be 100% correct - as long as you can give a lot of personal opinion about it.

Hi btw guys. I'm doing 'Le Petit Prince' - easiest and cutest book ever, and 'La Haine' - hoping for a nice book essay because the film is hard to write about. My essay tip is to read the question properly, and for practice, have an introduction that you can adapt to pretty much every question. That way, in the exam, it'll be easy to follow on from.

For listening practice - aside from the two mocks and the spec paper - I've been listening to French radio to tune my ear. Also, the listenings on Kerboodle are worth going over too.

For reading practice I've gone over the readings in the textbook and again, utilised Kerboodle - they also have a great vocabulary builder tool.

Good luck to everyone - let's all hope and pray for a nice paper!

Not sure why but I'm kind of expecting a translation on law and order, maybe about the case of a criminal?

The first link has quite a few errors - it says 'l'ere industrielle' is 'industrial area' when it's 'industrial era' and 'bouleverser' is spelled wrong...

With the French to English translations, do you find it best to go literal or into better English? I don't know how far away from the original we can go. For example, in a practice that I did, the text was clearly saying 'it was the last straw' but did so in a really verbose way that just sounded clumsy in English. BUT it didn't say 'la fin des haricots' (French equivalent of 'the last straw'), so I just kept the clumsy English :/

Unfortunately, it was just a random text my teacher gave me so I couldn't check it Btw, my teacher found loads of practice translations etc in the 'teachers resources/ teacher access only' part of the AQA website so if you're struggling for last minute practices then maybe get your teachers on it?

Yeah I noticed that too, but on the most part it's helpful. Just use it in conjunction with the AQA book and you'll be fine

Hi guys,

Found this online which may be of use to practice translations! it's relevant to our course too!

Thank you so much for this

It's really highlighted how horrific I am at genders of words... do you know of any ways to guess the gender of a word? These are what I know of:

fem

-> end with e
-> end with -tion (e.g. la natation)

masc

-> borrowed words (e.g. le weekend)
-> words end with ère (e.g. bière)
-> words that end with consonants
-> nouns from verbs (e.g. le pouvoir, le devoir)

Anyone have anything to add, or an exception to those rules that comes up often in translations?

Another thing to add is that if you can't remember at all if a word is masculine or feminine in the exam, just say the two variations under your breath and go for the one that sounds the most right

Thank you so much for this

It's really highlighted how horrific I am at genders of words... do you know of any ways to guess the gender of a word? These are what I know of:

fem

-> end with e
-> end with -tion (e.g. la natation)
-> end with é.
-> end with ure.

masc

-> borrowed words (e.g. le weekend)
-> words end with ère or ème (e.g. bière)
-> words that end with consonants
-> nouns from verbs (e.g. le pouvoir, le devoir)
-> compounds words (i.e. two words put together to form a noun e.g. huit clos)
-> end with -oir.

Anyone have anything to add, or an exception to those rules that comes up often in translations?

no problem

another one.. Usually when the ending is -ette it's feminine eg. la serviette

I'm trying to learn some quotes for the novel but my brain feels like it may explode. I have some quotes backlogged but I'm wondering if in the exam I can't remember "l'exclamation de mon pere et la gifle d'Anne furent simultanées" would me putting "au soirée du casino, quand cécile reçoit un gifle d'Anne..." would that count as evidence, or does it need to be the actualy quote?

Hi guys,

Found this online which may be of use to practice translations! it's relevant to our course too!

Thank you so much for this

It's really highlighted how horrific I am at genders of words... do you know of any ways to guess the gender of a word? These are what I know of:

fem

-> end with e
-> end with -tion (e.g. la natation)
-> end with é.
-> end with ure.
-> end with -ette (e.g. la serviette)- Sheo

masc

-> borrowed words (e.g. le weekend)
-> words end with ère or ème (e.g. bière)
-> words that end with consonants
-> nouns from verbs (e.g. le pouvoir, le devoir)
-> compounds words (i.e. two words put together to form a noun e.g. huit clos)
-> end with -oir.

Anyone have anything to add, or an exception to those rules that comes up often in translations?