Sujet du BEPC 2020 d’anglais, avec corrigé

Exercice 1 · PART ONE READING COMPREHENSION · 8 points

1. A

   Vocabulary check

   Find in the text the words or expressions whose synonyms or meanings are in the list below. Write your answers like in the example.

   Example: 1 – issue

   1- problem (title)

2. True/False statements

   Decide whether the following statements are true or false according to the text. Write (T) for true and (F) for false. Then, indicate the lines of the text to justify your answers. Write your answers like in the example
   Example: 1. = F (L. 1)

   1. 2- The United Nations has reserved a day against smoking.

   2. 3- The young man could not stop smoking.

   3. 4- The cause of the young man's death was unknown.

   4. 5- The young man left his wife and children a fortune.

   5. 6- Non-smokers living with smokers contract the same diseases.

   6. 7- Smoking is dangerous for pregnant women and their babies.

   7. 8- Smokers keep smoking because they don't care about what people think of them.

   8. 9- A lot of people think that smokers don't consider the well-being of others.

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

Exercice 2 · PART TWO LANGUAGE IN USE · 6 points

1. The statements in Column A are from a dialogue between a doctor and a young smoker. Match them with their appropriate endings in Column B. One option in Column B is not concerned. Write your answers like in the example.

   Example: 1. You know smoking is bad for health, c. don't you?

   1. 2. You have a very bad cough,

   2. 3. Your parents don't know you smoke,

   3. 4. Dr, you won't tell my parents,

   1. adon't they?
   2. bwill you?
   3. chaven't you? / don't you?
   4. ddo they?
2. Task 2

   In the following dialogue, Dr Mensah is talking with a patient smoker. Choose the correct verb forms in brackets to make the dialogue meaningful. Write your answers like in the example.

   Example: 4. = you do.

   Dr: If you follow my advice, I'm sure you (1) …………… (would/will/would've) stop smoking.

   Smoker: OK, Doctor. But if you (2) …………… (wrote/had written/write) it down, I won't forget it.

   Dr: Sure, I'll do that. But tell me, if I (3) …………… (give you/gave you/had given you) this new packet of cigarettes, would you keep it for me till we meet next week?

   Smoker: I'll try if 4. (you did/you do/you'll do.)

Exercice 3 · PART THREE WRITING · 6 points

1. Dialogue

   TOPIC: (Not more than 12 lines)

   For the National Non-smoking Day, your English teacher asked you to prepare a dialogue to be role-played by the English club in the City Hall. Begin your dialogue like this:

   A: Brother, you know smoking is very bad for your health, don't you?
   B: I know, but I've been smoking for five years and it isn't easy to stop.
   A: I think you should … ,