ready for tomorrow's exam

[kareina]

We have been warned that for tomorrow's Swedish exam we will need to write a paragraph about ourselves, describing a typical day in our lives, using standard phrases denoting time of day, and varying our language. This evening I composed the following paragraph, and got archinonlive to check it for me and point out the obvious problems with it.

På morgen ringer klockan halv sju, men jag stiger inte upp direkt. Först gör jag "sit-ups"--fysisk aktivitet är bra! Klockan sju äter jag frukost och läser e-post. Efter frukost forskar jag geologi i två timmar. Sedan går jag till universitet, jag har svenska lektion mellan kvart över tio och kvart i tolv.

Efter skolan, klockan halv ett, träffar jag min pojkvän, David, och vi äter lunch hemma: grönsaksoppa med bröd och ost. Efter lunch forskar jag geologi och läser e-post en gång till.

Vi äter middag klockan halv sex. På eftermiddagan vi har en folkdanskurs mellan kvart över sju och kvart i nio. Efteråt läser jag till David i en svensk barnbok. På kvällen vi går och lägger oss vid kvart i elva.


Which means, roughly: "In the morning the clock rings at half-past six (note that they describe that time of day as half-to seven), but I do not rise up directly. First I do sit-ups--physical activity is good! At 7:00 I eat breakfast and read e-mail. After breakfast I do geology research for two hours. Afterwards I walk to university, I have Swedish lesson between 10:15 and 11:45.

After school, at 12:30, I meet my boyfriend, David, and we eat lunch at home: vegetable soup with bread and cheese. Efter lunch I research geology and read e-mail once again.

We eat dinner at 17:30. After dinner we have a folk dance class between 19:15 and 20:45. Afterwards I read to David from a Swedish children's book. At night we go to bed at 10:45."


Now I'd best do my yoga and get to sleep--it is considerably later than the above stated bedtime from an ideal day--filling in the application for an extended visitor's visa took longer than I anticipated (such things always do).

Comments

[kahnegabs.livejournal.com]

Good luck on the exam.

[merlyn-gabriel.livejournal.com]

toi toi toi as they say here. I am sure you will do wonderfully.

[hamhead.livejournal.com]

For what it's worth, extra special good luck to you!

[loupblanc.livejournal.com]

I did a 3 week Finnish summer course back in '98 and we had to write daily journal entries in Finnish, which was really helpful.

Children book are good, I like to think that Steph picks up some French from Emily's :)

[kareina.livejournal.com]

I bet she does--the are meant to be read over and over, they use a good mix of common, every day words and fantastic words, and they often use slight repetition with small grammar changes to help drill those patterns into us...