[s2ophie]

how is everyone going in italian in terms of their marks so far? We got the results of our last in-school assessment today. i came 1st which i am very happy about but because we only have a class of 10 people, it would be nice ot compare it with other people!!

How does your teacher mark? Hard, soft,fair? Our teacher is very fair because he does HSC marking. What sort of assessments do you have to make up your in-school assessments?

Anyway, I am coming first with 88%. 2nd is on 81% i think.

What is your best area? i hate listening but i always seem to go ok in it. Speaking scares me but i manage and reading, writing and reponding really depend on the question!!

[Kakie]

i am on about 96.5 average coming first out of 8...my teacher marks really well...in speaking she marks us, then plays the tape to another teacher who has done hsc marking in the past, and combine their marks to give us ours...i hate reading and responding, but so long as you get the gist of it its really not hard and listening, i was never good at until last year when i went to italy...and i know it wont help now, but being surrounded by the language really helps...
for inschool assessments we do a mix of past papers, and if they are pre new hsc our teacher makes up 3.2 questions on them.
good luck

[mei_ling03]

yeah i for all exams except listening i have an average of 96.. although cos i suck at listening i'm dragged down to 87 NOOO!
damn.. i'm coming 2nd. :(

[s2ophie]

for your exams does each area (listening, writing etc) have equal weighting? Ours are all worth different amounts.

[Kakie]

yeh ours are all different as well

[mei_ling03]

really? ours are marked equally cos in the hsc its that way too
what are your weightings usually?

[s2ophie]

no i think you'll find that they have different weightings in the HSC. I couldn't tell you exactly what our weightngs are though!!

[Kakie]

i know listening is 15, speaking is 20 reading and responding is 25...ehm writing...hold on that doesnt add up...managia!!

[s2ophie]

from memory writing is 10 - thats the only one i remember!

[iambored]

yeah they all have different weightings in the hsc.. like, if i remember correctly, i think speaking is worth the least (in weighting) and then writing and then the listening&reading and responding. something like that.

[mei_ling03]

hmm that's a disappointment.. hate listening

[s2ophie]

from our yr 11 subject choices book this is what it is:

Internal Assessment
Speaking - 20
Listening and Responding - 25
Reading and responding - 40
Writing in Italian - 15

For the HSC:
Speaking Exam - 20
Listening and responding - 25
Reading and responding
Part A - 25
Part B - 15
Writing in Italian - 15

[mei_ling03]

ahh now i remember why i didn't chuck a spack about it before...the 2nd part of the reading/responding you have to write anyway...so in essence writing is about 30 :)

this year i've been really lazy with italian.. the only practice i ever do now is writing emails and on this forum.. :s in theory i should actually study hey... esp. for listening..

[iambored]

BUT... its not easy 2 study 4, theres barely nething u can do, yeah learn grammer, maybe vocab, maybe listening and writing practice but i dunno, its not like other subjects

[s2ophie]

yeah a lot of your study is in class time. i mean where else do you get to practice listening in the same format your tested on in the exam?

[Kakie]

umm get ur teacher to make 3.2 style questions for old listening papers....to test in the new exam format...

[mei_ling03]

Originally posted by iambored
BUT... its not easy 2 study 4, theres barely nething u can do, yeah learn grammer, maybe vocab, maybe listening and writing practice but i dunno, its not like other subjects

that's what's so great about it.. it gives me an excuse NOT to study heh..
and anyway, i really worked hard on italian last year so it's paying off this year..although i do have to admit i could've done alot more listening..

do you guys have any other methods of studying? our teacher's taking the 5 of us down to leichart (don't mind the spelling) later this term (yay!). in summary italian is a bludge.. kinda like a social club :)

[s2ophie]

Originally posted by mei_ling03
in summary italian is a bludge.. kinda like a social club :)


italian is certainly not a bludge for my class. My teacher always makes us work hard however it is a bit like a social club because i went to italy with my class and we always chat about that and also because in our other classes, we delight in talking in italian so other people can't understand us!

[iambored]

Originally posted by s2ophie
italian is certainly not a bludge for my class. My teacher always makes us work hard however it is a bit like a social club because i went to italy with my class and we always chat about that and also because in our other classes, we delight in talking in italian so other people can't understand us!
really? thats funny (talking in italian), yeah thats cool that u can make such good friends from going overseas with them. but i agree that languages in a general are a bludge!

[mei_ling03]

Originally posted by iambored
but i agree that languages in a general are a bludge!

yeah once you've learnt the basics it's all practice..

[tonberry_kun]

i failed
yepyep

[Hottieflossy]

it seems the listening is hard for everyone. my teacher is actually a really hard marker and she has told us that herself...actually, all our techers for yr12 mark us hard...but they reckon we will have an advantage in the HSc cuz of that

[Kakie]

listening i screwed up badly grrrrr
and i know the spker frmo the ILTA trial!!

[s2ophie]

ciao hottieflossy. Benvenuto a questo forum fantastico!

I haven't got my results yet. I am sure i went badly. Ho finito gli esami oggi! Ritornero' a scuola a lunedi ma a mercoledi, andremo a Sydney per vedere 'King Lear.' Non lo so se riceveremo i voti!

how cool to know the speaker!! Tell her she spoke well!! ;)

[iambored]

Originally posted by Kakie
listening i screwed up badly grrrrr
and i know the spker frmo the ILTA trial!!
cool, how do u know her?
Originally posted by s2ophie
mercoledi, andremo a Sydney per vedere 'King Lear.'
cool!

[Kakie]

cool, how do u know her?

e` venuta con noi quando siamo andate in italia, ma lei e` la prof dall'altra scuola

s2ophie, com'hai trovato King Lear, x me e` una dramma noiosa e non l'ho ancora letto!!lol

[iambored]

Originally posted by Kakie
cool, how do u know her?

e` venuta con noi quando siamo andate in italia, ma lei e` la prof dall'altra scuola

s2ophie, com'hai trovato King Lear, x me e` una dramma noiosa e non l'ho ancora letto!!lol

anch;io mi piace king lear e a me non piace

[s2ophie]

Originally posted by Kakie
s2ophie, com'hai trovato King Lear, x me e` una dramma noiosa e non l'ho ancora letto!!lol

era un po' noiosa e adesso sono stachissima perche' abbiamo viaggiato per dodici ore nel solo due giorni!

[Kakie]

poverina :(
cosa fai quando avremo l'esame speaking?? starai qui o viaggerai?

[s2ophie]

L'esame e' alla mia scuola.

[iambored]

penso che sophie sta, e qualch'uno viene?? li'

[s2ophie]

ok i'm kind of confused so in english:

My speaking exam is at my school in Albury and a lady or man comes down to albury and tests us here.

[Kakie]

oh ok what i thought was that we all went to one testing centre, but ok...

[s2ophie]

Originally posted by Kakie
oh ok what i thought was that we all went to one testing centre, but ok...

no cos if we did i might see you guys! che schifo!

[iambored]

:)

if ur in syd u do go 2 a testing centre. sophie and her class r just special. and in syd there r 2 testing centres.

[Kakie]

auburn. what a schlep

[Soma]

i go to grammar it is marked pretty hard.
coming second got 88% in trials.

[Kakie]

our teacher is a really good marker...but i was really proud of my trial mark!