Our rather bored French teacher taught it to us in the dead weeks when we'd finished the GCSE course
about 4 months ahead of schedule. We also translated French rap and attempted to watch Les Choristes without subtitles.

Of course, I can't remember any of it. Apart from "Il faut que j'aie..." etc.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:34, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

the only reason
I passed French was not a good one. It's as close as I've come to ever cheating on anything, but the teacher insisted
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:37, Reply)

What did you have to do?
I was considered a bit of a failure as I didn't get 95% or above in GCSE (told you my school was crazy)

I instead got 95% or above in my English Literature one -smugs-
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:40, Reply)

I was shit at French
it was the one subject where an A or A* just wasn't even possible. I could do alright on the reading/writing bit, but the listening/speaking was really difficult for me, I had an absolute mental block. So my teacher paused the oral tape and scrawled on the bit of paper some notes for me to look at (the bare bones of sentences for me to fill in)
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:42, Reply)

We were relentlessly prepared for that
Given a list of every single question that could conceivably asked on each of the 6 topics, and told we had to compose answers to each and learn them.

I guess that's as much cheating as yours, but further in advance.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:44, Reply)

I felt really bad about it
especially since I ended up with a B. But I couldn't tell anyone because the teacher could've got into a lot of trouble. Especially since my dad was deputy head
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:45, Reply)

We'll never mention it again
-fingers to lips-
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:46, Reply)

*swears oath of silence*
how's the room decorating going?
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:47, Reply)

So far it's just the amazing picture of my parents
Put in a place where I can see it , but just tucked out of sight (hopefully) from my bed (as that's just WEIRD)

I've cut lots of things out, from years ago. Should be looking better as soon as I decide to make an effort and stand up
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:50, Reply)

Sounds good
My room is my sisters old room, and I can't be bothered decorating- I've never really got the point of posters etc. So her 30 seconds to Mars and My Chemical Romance posters are still up alongside one Kandinsky poster that is mine
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:53, Reply)

I cut loads of things out of our house diary
(always has amazing pictures in) My mum also sends me clippings and pictures she thinks I'll like. There's also the photo of my dad pretending to be a walrus with two bananas in his mouth.

Mmm, Jared Leto.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:56, Reply)

I had the best french oral ever (not that kind)
We had our G.C.S.E oral in a little cupboard at the back of the classroom and everybody had to sit outside and wait for the turn. I went after Guy Cox, as it was done alphabetically. Now Guy was a great friend of mine at school and I knew he had done no revision and wasn't great at French so was bracing myself for something funny to happen. He didn't let me down. Mrs Goldsmith asked him something in French I can't remember exactly but I think it was along the lines of 'what are you going to do in the summer?'

To which Guy replied 'My name is Guy and I like to play football' in English with the best French Allo Allo accent ever. He was in there for about a minute. And yeah he failed.
( SteveFrench Cardio is for homo's. do you even lift bro?, Mon 6 Sep 2010, 10:48, Reply)