Useful Tips For Orals.

[flighty]

Sorry to disappoint with the title, chaps. The daughter starts her GCSE mission tomorrow with German Oral. I have advised her to respond to all questions with 'Achtung ... Unterseebooten!' I think she will pick up quite a few marks with that.

I did German A Level hundreds of years ago. Anyone got any up to date tips for her?

And to anyone else who has kids who are about to embark on important exams .... good luck to them!

[Doc]

Im fluent now (ish) but very colloquial

best thing is to listen to german (Michel Thomas is great, cd's and tapes from amazon)

failing that the bbc do a good course online at www.bbc.co.uk

hard to advise not knowing her standard

PM me if theres anything specific you need help with

[flighty]

It's all a bit late now. She chucked her kit down the stairs tonight saying she couldn't do any of it. A bit stressed, methinks.

She will have to get on with the oral now as it is tomorrow afternoon, but she still has the formal written exam to sit in June.

Would be grateful for any help, Doc, as she needs a good grade in order to embark on A Level Spanish.

I speak good French, OK German and reasonable Greek and Turkish, but you know what it's like taking advice from a family member .... it don't work!

You might well be able to help her hike up her marks a point or two,

[lew]

Flighty, when I did German, I cheated and got a great mark . I managed to sit myself at an angle where I could just about see the text book she was asking her questions from.

Also with my course work I used one of those free translation websites. Got an A. managed to bugger up the actual GCSE though, cant think why


lew

[speed freek]

During my GCSE French Oral i just kept it simple, You dont have to answer all the questions so she would only answer the ones she knows and do her best. I worried about mine (this would have been about 5 years ago now) but it only lasts a short time and its better than sitting in a 3 hour science exam!!!

[flighty]

It turned out to be not as bad as she expected. The panic last night was quelled by a dose of Footballers' Wives and a large donner with everything on. Nothing gets to her normally so it was a bit of a shock to witness the tears and tantrums.
All I remember about my German oral was calling in the pub in Woore on the way to Stoke to do it. Don't know what I said but it sure sounded pretty fluent to me.

[Doc]

All I remember about my German oral was calling in the pub in Woore on the way to Stoke to do it. Don't know what I said but it sure sounded pretty fluent to me.

Was his name Hans?

"Ja es war Hans, mit eine grosse........!"

[flighty]

Nein. Mit eine kleine ...... in my (limited) experience, anyway.

[Doc]

Talking about Germans heres a pic for goreD

[Artist]

A red cross!

Very nice Doc.

Hardest oral exam I ever did was the Janner one.

"Err me ansum as Ee got thar one o them thar Oggies for Oie then?"

"Arr tis fresh today me luver ave ee a good bite so's youm get the full flavour"

"Ansum bit O oggie tis made oie appy as um Pig in the Sh*t Arrr!

I sweated buckets over it.

Artist

[Dave_n]

i have my GCSE german oral on tuesday.. Im just gonna improvise

[SpooK]

French oral on Wednesday morning for me. The required results to get into the 6th form are pretty high and it would be a good start to get an A in French. I'm stressing over the oral atm, trying to write out answers to all the oral questions, which has taken up much more time than I thought possible!

[Monkey_Man]

I got a B for my German, I barely remember the oral exam, but I talked and talked and "Ich verstehe nicht" and "bitte?" etc, worked out ok.