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  Leaving Cert & Junior Cert French papers review. Leaving Cert Exams are the pinnacle of the Irish Educational System…. There was definitely a mixed reaction to the French papers, at both Leaving & Junior Cert level. Overall I think that the papers for both Junior and Leaving cert French were very much in line […]

LA POLLUTION DE L’AIR DANS LES VILLES AIR POLLUTION IN CITIES Full version of these sentences available to subcribed members of Leaving Cert or Teacher plans. https://frenchnotes.ie/subscriptions/leaving-cert-plan/ https://frenchnotes.ie/subscriptions/teacher-plan/ En Irlande la pollution de l’air est responsable de la mort de 1200 personnes chaque année In Ireland, air pollution is responsible for the deaths of 1200 […]

HUMAN RIGHTS – LES DROITS DE L’HOMME “Les Hommes naissent et demeurent libres et égaux en droits”. C’est la Déclaration des Droits de l’Homme et du Citoyen qui date de 1789. Plus précisément, “libres et égaux en dignité et en droits” ainsi que, “agir les uns envers les autres dans un esprit de fraternité”. C’est […]

LE STRESS – STRESS There is no escape from stress. However, it is important to realise that stress is a normal reaction to everyday life, and the body’s coping mechanism. It is only when you suffer from stress persistently, that it can lead to health problems. Stress is generated by the fear or uncertainty about […]

LE BÉNÉVOLAT – VOLUNTEER WORK Volunteering is one of the most rewarding things that you can do. As part of their transition year program, most schools in Ireland take part in some sort of voluntary activity. If the subject of transition year comes up in your oral exam, these sentences will come in useful. We […]

LES MÉDIAS OU RÉSEAUX SOCIAUX SOCIAL MEDIA OR SOCIAL NETWORKS In today’s world we are all connected through social media. While it has transformed the way in which we communicate and see the world, it is important to mind yourself and your personal details. Les médias ou réseaux sociaux peuvent offrir aux jeunes la possibilité […]

For parents of students studying French, language learning is a bit of a mystery. How are you meant to help your child if you haven’t studied French in years or maybe you never studied the language. As a student, you are at one of two stages at the moment; you are beginning secondary school in […]

Edited from THE NEW SPECIFICATION FOR MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES – JUNIOR CYCLE The new syllabus will actively engage students in the five language skills: Listening Reading Spoken production Spoken interaction Writing Language learning also helps students develop both verbal skills and mathematics, as learning a foreign language enhances abilities in areas such as problem-solving, multi-tasking […]

Are you going into secondary school in September and taking French? In 2016 over 31,000 students sat the Junior Cert French exam.  So in any one year there are approximately 30,000 students meeting French as a subject for the first time. Whenever I go into a first year class, I explain to the students that […]

  Unlike a lot of sites which aim to help students with several subjects in the Leaving or Junior Certificate exams, French Notes.ie focuses entirely on French. We have devised this study guide to help you answer the reading comprehensions, without giving the answers, as that, in our opinion, would be pointless, and there would […]

ÊTRE – TO BE – I always refer to the verb être as the king of the verbs as you simply cannot express yourself in any meaningful way without a very good knowledge of this verb. Je suis – I am J’ai été – I was Je serai – I will be ALLER – TO […]

Pâques est la fête la plus importante du christianisme et elle tombe juste après les épreuves oraux. C’est certain à mon avis, qu’il y aura une question sur cette fête et voice un exemple de réponse à une question typique: Easter is the most important festival in Christianity, and it falls just after the oral […]

Bonjour tout le monde Hello, we are now on youtube and uploading videos. The Channel will primarily focus on the vocabulary for the Junior Cert and Leaving Cert, We do hope you enjoy and find them helpful https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoXek4e_o5n1Fi9bCATS3dw

LA VIOLENCE N’EST JAMAIS JUSTIFIÉE – QUEL EST VOTRE AVIS? VIOLENCE IS NEVER JUSTIFIED – WHAT IS YOUR OPINION? The question here is whether or not violence is ever acceptable. If you are presented with a question about the topic of violence in the leaving cert exam, I advise you to do the following: Make […]