Higher French 2009

rachaelpedreschi

Sorry I took so long, I completely didn't notice anyone wanted these!
Hope they're any good, if you notice anything wrong in it (particularly the first bit about etre verbs because it was me that wrote that bit in :p:

) I'd appreciate being told so I can change it :smile:

Good luck on the 22nd x

Thanks for that. Just out of interest; in what cases would you conjugate passer with etre. None immediatley sprig to mind.

Reply 26

CallumFR

9

Thanks for uploading the document rachael! I really think it'll help in the exam :woo:

Reply 27

rachaelpedreschi

namedeprived

Thanks for that. Just out of interest; in what cases would you conjugate passer with etre. None immediatley sprig to mind.

I've personally no idea, I was just told by a teacher but I looked it up and:

"Passer is a regular -ER verb but may be conjugated with avoir or être in the compound tenses, depending on whether it is transitive or intransitive."

No, I don't know what that means... :smile:

Also, anyone an idea of how to get rid of that pesky negative thing, I'm quite gutted because I think it was accidental :p:

or does it even matter all that much?

Reply 28

lilhunni_jo

I think it would be conjugated with etre in the passive voice, which cannot be used with intransitive verbs in French (verbs which don't take a direct object). We won't need to know it really for the exam will we? It confuses me.

Reply 29

lilhunni_jo

I think it would be conjugated with etre in the passive voice, which cannot be used with intransitive verbs in French (verbs which don't take a direct object). We won't need to know it really for the exam will we? It confuses me.

I really doubt it. So long as you know your perfect and imperfect tense, and maybe a bit of future and conditional, as well as your adjective agrrements, you will be well on your way to 15.

By the way the following is a good (and impressive to the examiner) sentence to use in the last paragraph using the both pluperfect tense and the conditional perfect tense.

Si j'avais eu plus de temps, j'aurais visité (Lyon, les monument historiques, etc)
If i had had more time, I would have visited...

Reply 30

OP

Argh, French a week tomorrow :redface:

I'm so gonna fail haha! I think my Directed Writing has improved.... But the whole of paper 2 has basically gone downhill!! :redface:

I hate that the reading passages are first (same with english!) when the essay based papers are in paper 2 when you need to remember a lot of information!

Reply 31

Don_Scott

14

Reading is easy.
Listening can be easy but sometimes it can be solid.
Writing is well hard.

Reply 32

OP

And the fact you have to pass the writing before the speaking is accounted for!!!

Reply 33

javjamoll

And the fact you have to pass the writing before the speaking is accounted for!!!

What?

You sure? Or do you mean the NAB?

Reply 34

OP

No, That's what our teacher told us.

You have to pass the writing part of the exam for the speaking to be accounted for. That's why our prelim was marked out of 75 instead of 100 aswell...

I was shocked aswell!

Reply 35

By Writing, I'm assuming you mean the Directed Writing? So if you fail that, do you mean that you get no marks for the final exam and it is marked out of 75?

Reply 36

bex285

20

javjamoll

Argh, French a week tomorrow :redface:

I'm so gonna fail haha! I think my Directed Writing has improved.... But the whole of paper 2 has basically gone downhill!! :redface:

I hate that the reading passages are first (same with english!) when the essay based papers are in paper 2 when you need to remember a lot of information!

Why don't you just do the essay first? (assuming you're not talking about the listening paper here, btw)
I usually do the Directed Writing first, then the reading, then leave about ten minutes at the end to look over my Directed Writing twice; once to check verbs and again to check adjective agreements and spelling.

Reply 37

OP