Sujet du BAC A2 2011 d’anglais LV2, avec corrigé

Exercice 1 · PART ONE : READING 40 % · 8 points

1. Vocabulary: Match the words or expressions from the text in column A with their meanings in column B. There are more meanings than words. Write your answers like the example.
   Example: 3. task = h. duty, mission

   1. 1- overwhelmed (L. 2)

   2. 2- desperation (L. 3)

   3. 4- create awareness (L. 10)

   4. 5- starving (L. 13)

   5. 6- root (L. 16)

   6. 7- going blind (L. 21)

   7. 8- wasting away (L. 22)

   8. 9- waged (L. 27)

   9. 10- tiny (L. 26)

   10. 11- threat (L. 31)

   1. afeeling of no hope
   2. bvery small
   3. cdying of hunger
   4. dlosing weight, growing thinner
   5. emain cause, source
   6. fmade, fought
   7. gdanger, menace
   8. hduty, mission
   9. ishocked, devastated
   10. jmake people know or hear about
   11. klosing their eyesight, cannot see anymore
   12. lsuffering

2. True/False Statements: Read the text again and say whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F). Then give the line(s) of the text to justify your answers.
   Example: 5.F (L 10-14)

   1. 1- In the past, the narrator used to be shocked by pictures of poverty in the world.

   2. 2- Nowadays, the narrator understands the mission of the UNICEF better.

   3. 3- Raising money for poor children is the principal task of the narrator.

   4. 4- The narrator was assisted by UNICEF in the past.

   5. 6- The aim of UNICEF is to help people to help themselves.

   6. 7- The narrator is speaking for children who cannot speak, see nor hear.

   7. 8- According to the narrator, street children are children born in the streets of big cities.

   8. 9- For the narrator, children are war victims although they have no enemies.

   9. 10- Armed conflicts make children grow up in an atmosphere of terror and horrors of violence.

   10. 11- The narrator seems to think that "man is a permanent danger for man."

Le corrigé de cet exercice est offert, à la fin de l’énoncé

Exercice 3 · PART THREE : LANGUAGE USE 20 % · 4 points

1. A

   Choose the appropriate words in brackets to make the passage meaningful.
   Write your answers like the example. Example: 1. between

   In (7), two words in brackets are correct: write your answer.

   About 165 million children (1) between the age of 5 and 14 are involved in child labour, according to a new report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) released in Geneva, Switzerland.
   Most of the children in (2) …………… countries across the globe including Nigeria work long hours in (3) …………… conditions. While calling on governments to (4) …………… education as means of preventing child labour, the ILO stated child labour is (5) …………… associated with poverty.
   Many poor families are (6) …………… to afford school fees or other school costs. The family may (7) …………… on the contribution that a working child makes to the household's (8) ……………, education. And when a family has to make a (9) …………… between sending either a boy or a girl to school, it is often the girl who (10) …………… out.
   In order to (11) …………… the Millennium Development Goal, the ILO called for a good quality education for children irrespective of gender.

   Adapted from VANGUARD, May 17, 2008.

2. B

   Fill in the gaps with the appropriate words from the box below. Some words can be used more than once. Write your answers like the example. Example: 1 - on

   later – from – in – of – on – up – with

   When Mrs. Martha Onuch watched (1) on TV recently, how one of the women Non Governmental Organisation (2) …………… Nigeria hailed and rewarded some grown up girls (3) …………… about 16 and 17 years of age at a ceremony in Lagos (4) …………… January 24th for keeping their virginity in this society full (5) …………… temptations, she was so moved and vowed that such honour would never elude her if the organisation would be consistent (6) …………… the awards.
   At least, she has a 2 ½ year old girl, Ojemene, whom she has promised to guide safety to clinching such honour. As a devout member of a well-known congregation, the mother (7) …………… five had relied (8) …………… the biblical injunction as enshrined in the Book, that says when you "train a child in the way he should go, when he is old, he will not depart (9) …………… it".
   But little did she know that barely three month (10) ……………, her dreams would be dealt (11) …………… by a cruel and devastating blow by someone she least excepted.