SITUATION D’EVALUATION EN ANGLAIS

I- INFORMATIONS GENERALES
COLLEGE D’ENSEIGNEMENT GENERAL DE SEME- PODJI
Discipline – Travail –Succès ANNEE SCOLAIRE 2022 – 2023
 : 01 BP 3095 Porto – Novo
Classe : 2ndes A-B-C-D
 : 96 67 82 19
Durée : 3 heures
Coef : 2/3

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Première Production Scolaire du Premier Semestre

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I- COMPETENCES A EVALUER
CD n°2: Réagir à un texte ou support multimédia.
CD n°3: Produire un texte ou support de type particulier.

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III- L’EPREUVE

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A- La réaction à un texte ou support multimédia
Contexte : Le déboisement est un phénomène très destructif pour l’environnent.
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Support :
Text :
1- In Africa, as in the other parts of the developing world, vast numbers of trees are being cut
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down for cooking and heating. Eighty per cent (80%) of the energy needs of African
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households are being supplied by firewood. Thus, firewood is becoming scarce, and people
have to go further and further to find it. In part of Burkina Faso, for example, women walk
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three and a half hours to find wood.

2- The demand for tropical timber is another problem. The wood in most homes in the west –
furniture, windows, doors, etc. comes from tropical forest, and about one quarter of the
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wood the world needs is being exported from Africa. Logging is very destructive to the
forest. The loggers only want the tallest and straighest trees. This means that only a few
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trees per hectare are being felled, but when these trees fall, they injure and kill the trees
that remain.
3- Consequently, tropical forest is being destroyed at a very high rate. For example, 500,000
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hectares per year are being lost in Côte d’Ivoire alone.

4- Cut and burn agriculture (or shifting cultivation) may be traditional, but it is too
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destructive. It is an old practice in Africa for people to farm in one area for a year or two
and move on to another area the next year. The reason for this is simple. After the first fire
the soil is fertile, but two years later this land is not being used for crops anymore because
the soil was dead and the people have moved on. The original forest is eventually re-
grown, but only after many years. So, these forests are being used up faster than they can
be replaced.
5- Finally, there is the problem of cash crops for export. In many African countries the forest
is being cleared so that products such as cocoa, tobacco, coffee, tea, bananas and
pineapples can be sent to developed countries. Thus forests are being replaced by large
plantations which do not even provide food for the local population.
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Critères d’évaluation: Après avoir lu le texte, tu montreras que tu l’as compris en:
- reconnaissant les idées maitresses/globales du texte,
-reconnaissant les détails du texte,
-manifestant ta maîtrise du vocabulaire ;
-manifestant ta maîtrise de certains mots;
-reformulant des passages du texte ;

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-traduisant une partie du paragraphe 3 en Français.
Tâches

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Item1: Are the statements below “Right” or “”Wrong”?

1- Tropical forest is being protected.

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2- The loggers want every kind of trees.
3- Products such as cocoa, pine apples, bananas tobacco and coffee are exported from

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developing countries to developed countries.
4- Five thousands hectares of tropical forest are being destroyed in Côte d’Ivoire alone.
Item2: Answer these questions
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1- Why do women walk three and half an hour to find wood in Burkina Faso?
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2- What are the causes of the destruction of tropical forest?
3- Products such as cocoa, coffee and tobacco are called cash crops for export. Why?
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Item3: Find in the text words or expressions which have the same or almost the same
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meanings as the following

1- Rare (paragraph1)
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2- Hurt (paragraph2)
3- Damaged (paragraph3)
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4- Supply (paragraph5)
Item4: Fill in the gaps with “to, for, or as”. Use the numbers and the answers only
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1- Lands are used ..,………………….. cultivate in Africa.

2- This bark is used ..,…………………. treating rheumatism.
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3- Plants of the tropical forest can be used ……………………. medicine.

4- This plant is used …………………… the treatment of malaria.

Item5: Complete the paragraph below with: like, such as, for example

(Just use the number and the correct answer)

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 Forests are very useful for human beings. A country can give wood companies permission
to exploit the forest in exchange of the payment of taxes. With these taxes the government can
build infrastructures………1…………. roads, schools and hospitals for the people. Plants of
the tropical forests can also be used as medicine. The leaves of paw-paw…………2 …………,
are used to treat malaria. People …………3 …………hunters, villagers can also food and
forest to treat patients.

Item6: Translate into French the passage

From '’ The demand…………….…. '’

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Down to '’……………. straightest trees’’ (paragraph2)

B- La production d’un texte ou support de type particulier

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Contexte : Le gouvernement béninois a autorisé l’implantation des entreprises indienne et
chinoise dans la forêt de Kpomassè dans le but d’exporter les bois de Kosso et Teck. Mais ces

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entreprises ne respectent plus leur contrat d’agrément. Elles coupent anarchiquement les bois
et parfois à l’insu des forestiers. Par conséquent, les chasseurs ne trouvent plus d’animaux à

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chasser, les pluies deviennent de plus en plus rares et les cultivateurs se plaignent de leur sort.
Les riverains quant à eux, se plaignent des bruits à longueur de journée.
Critères d’évaluation : Tu montreras ta compétence à écrire une lettre formelle à une autorité
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en :
- respectant le format d’une lettre formelle ;
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- respectant la logique interne du texte ;
- construisant des phrases grammaticalement correctes ;
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- utilisant le vocabulaire adéquat, l’orthographe et la ponctuation appropriées.

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Tâche

Writing: Write a letter to the Housing and Environment Minister to complain about the way
companies are destroying the forest in Kpomassè. (20 lines at most).
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NB: Use the following information

Your name and address: SEWANOU Yémalin

Po Box: 3491 (Ouidah)
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Recipient address: Ministy of Housing and Environment

Po Box: 360 (Cotonou)
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Never say die! Never give up!!