It's the week of the dreaded orals.
Dave & Fionnuala from The Lift on iRadio asked for your Oral Examination horror stories and you delivered!
1. This absolute gold from an actual examiner's side.
"Lads, my mam was an examiner for the French oral a few years ago and it's tough for them too! She got a fella who hadn't a word and she was trying her hardest to help him out while the tape was recording...Asked him to describe his uniform (hoping to pick up on the word uniform which he did!) And off he went.. next she asked him to describe his house hoping he would say it has a door and windows.. but he didn't understand so she pointed at the window and door and yer man said, while the recording was ongoing, "I don't know what you're pointing at"... She nearly died!!"
2. Whatever you're into:
3. Only the 5 dogs?
4. No comment...
5. Straight out of luck!
6. Not a hobby we'd recommend.
7. NOW IS NOT THE TIME, LINDA!
8. And Last, but certainly not least, Colin in Cavan text us this.
You know the way they aren't meant to tell you how it went afterwards.. my Irish inspector said after my oral "between the two of us, you will have to do a good written exam".. she was only telling me what I already knew though...
To summarise we turn to a sublime take from Bernard Casey Comedy:
