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ninwa:

--- Quote from: French 1 Semester 1 final exam info sheet ---The written exam will comprise the following sections:
1. An exercise to test your ability to conjugate verbs in the person indicated (je, tu, etc). (5% of written exam)

2. 2 gap filling exercises to test other key grammar structures learnt this semester. (5% each)

3. Sentences to translate into French to test the vocabulary and grammar covered in Vis-à-vis this semester. (30%)

4. A reading comprehension of a French text on a topic covered this semester with short answer questions to be answered in English and an exercise asking you to find in the text the French equivalents of short English phrases. (15%)

5. Creative writing:  A choice of 3 titles on which to write 80 - 100 words.  A chance to show your knowledge of vocabulary and grammar and your creative genius!  The word length is kept short deliberately to give you time to concentrate on quality (40 %).

--- End quote ---

ninwa:
My laptop died mid last year and all of my uni work up to then was lost, so I don't actually have the unit guide for French 1 anymore. But judging from my notebook, in FRN1010 we studied (I made notes on every tiny thing we studied... so yeah :P):

- greetings etc. (like hello, what's your name, how are you, my name is..., I don't understand, thank you, goodbye etc.)
- alphabet pronunciation
- names of accents
- "les mots apparentés" ("equivalents" between French and English spelling... e.g. -ing in English equates to -ant in French, as in amusing/amusant - if you want I can type up this table for you, it's not very big)
- indefinite/definite articles, partitive articles
- asking questions
- numbers (jejak I can type up these notes for you if you like, they're really detailed because I was still an enthusiastic jaffy full of motivation back then)
- days of the week
- months
- genders of nouns (incl. which endings were more likely to be feminine etc.)
- pluralising nouns
- pronunciation (have good info sheets on this if you want)
- verb conjugation for:
* regular verbs ending in -er
* the verb être (to be)
* the verb avoir (to have)
* regular verbs ending in -ir
* the verb aller (to go)
* the verb faire (to do)
* regular verbs ending in -re
* the verb boire (to drink)
* the verb prendre (to take)- negation (e.g. ne...pas)
- some adverbs
- some adjective qualifiers (e.g. un peu - a little)
- c'est/ce sont vs. il/elle est
- expressions with avoir (e.g. avoir faim/soif - to be hungry/thirsty, avoir de la chance - to be lucky)
- different levels of formality in asking questions
- adjective agreement
- the prepositions à and de
- indefinite articles after ne...pas
- interrogative words (e.g. quand - when, pourquoi - why)
- the placement of adjectives (adjectives usually come after the noun, but there are exceptions)
- possessives (my, your, theirs etc. - I don't know what they're actually called in English - possessive pronouns??)
- imperatives
- interrogative adjectives (which/what, this/that/these/those)
- how to tell the time in 12-hour and 24-hour time


... this seems like a lot more than it actually was, so don't be freaked out! And I'm happy to scan my notes on any of these topics if you want them :)

jejak:
Thanks so much for that detailed list, ninwa. I'm comfortable with most of the structural/grammatical items you have listed (I'm assuming that the verbs need only be conjugated in the present indicative?), but not the vocab-ish ones. Also, I had no idea there was a difference between il est and c'est... :o à and de trip me up a lot.


--- Quote ---And I'm happy to scan my notes on any of these topics if you want them
--- End quote ---
Would that be too much trouble? There are some that I would find really useful. Would I be able to PM you with a couple of requests? (Okay, I'll be upfront - having all of the notes would be awesome, but I'm sure that's too much scanning for one person to do.)

Again, thanks so much!!

ninwa:
Ah yes, definitely just present indicative :) looks like I was wrong, we didn't even do passe compose until level 2!

Sure PM if you want, or you can write it here, I'll upload the ones you want here first (in case other ppl wanna see it) and do the rest if I have time. Some of my notes are probably confusing (I have strange methods of remembering things and my notes reflect that occasionally) so I'll type them up in uncrazy-people-language

jejak:
Okay, I hope this isn't too much to request. The ones in bold would be most useful.

- numbers
- telling time
- the prepositions à and de
- indefinite articles after ne...pas
- c'est/ce sont vs. il/elle est

Merci bcp!

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