Thursday 11 April 2013

Posting notes on this blog, helping people :)

I am putting up notes that i have, i am trying to only put up the best ones as i want this blog to be useful and give good notes to help people.

If anyone else has notes/sample answers/advice, anything really that you think would be a benefit to other people doing the leaving cert please feel free to comment or message me if you would like me to post it on this blog.

The leaving cert is not a fun time but we all have to do it so we might as well help each other through.

If anyone donates anything to the blog i will say that, i will not take credit for work that is not mine.

Also, do not forget to spread the word about this blog. Tell your friends/family/classmates. Retweet about it on twitter, share the links, lets help as many people as we can :)


Helpful website links


These are just some of the websites available online that might be of some help to you. They have revision notes, advice, exampapers, answers, marking schemes etc.






Some of these i have used, others i have not.


I am not responsible for any of the content on these pages, i am just providing the links to them as they may be of help.

https://sites.google.com/site/gobanengineeringnotes/

http://studynotes.ie/leaving-cert/

http://www.examsupport.ie/

http://www.aoifesnotes.com/

http://lcnotes.blogspot.ie/

http://sgcbusiness.com/business-notes/

www.skool.ie

www.scoilnet.com

mystudymate.ie

positivemaths.ie

examinations.ie

studyclix.ie

http://myleavingcertnotes.blogspot.ie/

http://www.stkevinscollege.com/leavingHistory.html

http://www.mocks.ie/

http://lcgeography.preswex.ie/

http://www.cnocmhuiregranard.ie/wordpress/index.php/academia/mr-carrolls-notes/mr-carrolls-notes/leaving-certificate-maths-notes


http://thephysicsteacher.ie/leavingcertbiologyhome.html








Irish grammar - aidíocht sheallbhach - possessions

aidíocht sheallbhach - possessions

This is for possesssions, so when you are saying, my___, his___ etc, 
For this you use:
my     -    mo
your    -    do
his     -     a
her     -     a
our      -     ár
you (pl)    -     bhur
their    -      a

When using these before a word that begins with a constanant eg carr


Mo                        +  shéimhú (h)                                 Mo charr

Do                         +  shéimhú (h)                                 Do charr

a  (masc)               +  shéimhú (h)                                 a  charr

a (fem)                  no change                                        a carr

Ár                         +  urú                                             Ár  gcarr

Bhur                     +  urú                                            Bhur  gcarr

A (pl)                   +  urú                                             a  gcarr



When using these before a word that begins with a vowel eg oráiste

Mo                        M'_______                             m'oráiste

Do                         D'_______                              d'oráiste

a  (masc)               no change                                a  orásite

a (fem)                  h before                                    a horáiste

Ár                         Urú   n-_____                            Ár  n-oráiste

Bhur                    Urú   n-______                            Bhur  n-oráiste

a (pl)                   Urú   n-______                            a  n-oráiste






Irish grammar - Forainm Reamhfhocalach (eg Liom, uirthi, agat)

Irish grammar - Forainm Reamhfhocalach (eg Liom, uirthi, agat)


Fancy  Irish word but bascially it is just when you put the reamhfhocal shimplí (as, ag, ar... etc..) and the forainm (mé tú sé...) together.

So for example, instead of saying " le mé..." you say "liom" instead of saying "ar tú" you say "ort" etc etc

The reason behind it... there isnt really any, its just irish, and the grammar behind it and really you may just learn the words, sorry but there is not really any other way around it.

Some you will use more than others. I am putting the main ones here, there are others which are rarely used such as thar, um etc, the most important are probably ag, ar, le, and do, they will be used a lot and you probably already know some of them.

So am going to out the simple preposition at the top, eg le, and then the list underneath. Instead of me having to write out mé tú sé.. all the time i will just write them for the first one and that will be the order they are in for the rest :) 

If you are confused about any of it please feel free to comment. 


                            Ag                           Do
Mé/mise             agam                        dom
Tú/tus                 agat                          duit
Sé/é                    aige                          do
Sí/í                     aici                           di
Sinn/muid         againn                      dúinn
Sibh                  agaibh                      daoibh
Siad                    acu                          dóibh

Le                                         As
liom                                    asam
leat                                     asat
leis                                     as
leí                                      astí
linn                                    asainn
libh                                    asaibh
leo                                      astu

Ar                                       Faoi
orm                                    fúm
ort                                      fút
air                                       faoi
uirthi                                   fúithí  
orainn                                 fúinn
oraibh                                fúibh
orthu                                  fúthú


 Ó                                     De
uaim                                díom
uait                                  díot
uaidh                               de
uaithi                               di
uainn                               dinn
uaibh                               díbh
uathú                               díobh

Roimh                              I
romham                          ionam
romhat                            ionat
roimhe                            ann
roimpi                            inti
romhainn                       ionainn
romhaibh                       ionaibh
rompu                            iontu

Chuig
chugam
chugat
chuige
chuici
chugainn
chugaibh
chucu
 

Irish Grammar - Reamhfhocal shimplí (eg i, le, go, ag, ar...) simple prepositions

Irish Grammar - Reamhfhocal shimplí  (eg i, le, go, ag, ar...)

Simple prepositions

Some take a h, some don't, some take urús, its all very confusing.

They are divided up into 4 groups.

Group 1 - no changes happen after these
  • ag
  • as
  • chuig
  • le
  • go
Group 2 - when using these  you add a shéimhú (h)
  • de
  • do
  • faoi
  • mar
  • ó
  • roimh
  • trí

Group 3 - take a shéimhú most of the time, but not always
  • ar
  • gan
  • idir
  • thar
  • um

Group 4 - takes an urú always
  • i


I'm back... & Next few posts...

Sorry about the delay, i have been on teachign practice in college so have been crazy busy!! I am back now and should be blogging a lot more on this which will hopefully help coming up to exams :)

My next few posts are going to deal mainly with Irish grammar.
Yes i know, nobody likes Irish grammar! however if you want to get a high mark, especially in honours Irish, you need to know some of it. This is mainly for the essay writing but will be beneficial for everything. If you can write an essay with very little mistakes you are almost guaranteed a good grade, and yes, it is very possible to write on with the grammar perfect you just have to learn the rules.

So over the next few posts i will be concentrating on different parts of grammar. It would take months if i was to go through everything, i dont even know everything there is to learn about it, but i will go through some of the basics that will hopefully be of some help :)

If there is any other parts of irish grammar you are unsure about of want me to post just comment or message me.
Also any questions on anything to do with other subjects, or even just the exams in general of cao or college of anything, just ask, ill try help :)