Tag Archives: french

Barack Obama et le français.

Dear Barack Hussein Obama, You rock my world. Lots of love, Jennie xx Lots of people* like to groom my ego from time to time, telling me my writing skills are simply immense. Unfortunately, English teachers don’t tend to think so. I mean, yeah, my grammar’s usually pretty immaculate and I know a great deal [...]

Don't Know When But A Day Is Gonna Come

I hate to sound so Chandleresque but could it BE any colder? My friends and I have taken to wearing layers upon layers of clothes under our school uniforms (including double layers of socks under tights) and still spend the day with shoulders hunched, clutching our jackets. It was minus five degrees at one point, [...]

French & History

I’m gobsmacked… these papers were simply wonderful, almost… enjoyable (not in real life). The French paper this morning had comprehensible comprehensions, although the questions were sometimes challenging. The “production ecrite” used straight forward language, I can’t imagine it being too troublesome for many. I was happy enough, my vocab and grammar was only satisfactory, not [...]

The History of France

I had the most unusual night last night. I was meant to study but after the long day I laid down for what was to be a 20 minutes rest but actually turned into 4 hours sleep! I was slow to get up and little study was done. A 5am job was in order for [...]

My Big Opener

It has all begun and the end is near. This week signifies the start of the official Leaving Cert exams… scary. With my Irish oral behind me and my music practical yesterday, I say to the Leaving cert – “Bring it on!” You’d never expect that you wouldn’t be nervous during these exams but it’s [...]

Upcoming leaving certificate Oral exams

As all of you are probably (should be) aware that the Leaving cert Oral exams begin soon. Very soon as a matter of fact. So the majority of us should be trying to only speak in these languages for the weekend. Just a note of the dates 7th – Start date for Leaving Certificate Oral [...]