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TECHNIQUE ET DE LA FORMATION PROFESSIONNELLE DU LITTORAL

Année scolaire : 2023-2024

Niveau : BEPC
Coefficient : 02 EXAMEN BLANC DEPARTEMENTAL
Durée : 2 heures

DISCIPLINE : ANGLAIS

COMPETENCES A EVALUER:
CD2: Réagir à des textes ou supports multimédia.
CD3: Produire des textes ou supports multimédia de type et de fonction variés.

A- Réaction à un texte

Contexte
La consommation de l’alcool et de la drogue nuit dangereusement à l’individu et à la société.

Support

TEXT: DRUG ABUSE AND ADDICTION

1. Although alcohol and tobacco are legal in most countries, both are habit forming or addictive drugs.
They contribute to the poor health and death of many millions of people each year. Alcohol abuse
causes enormous health, family and social problems throughout the world. Cigarette smoking has for
many years been a major cause of death in rich countries and is now becoming an even bigger cause
of death in poor countries. As more people in the rich countries stop smoking, the tobacco companies
have turned to the Third World’ (poor countries) as their new and easiest market.

2. An increasing problem among poor children in cities is the sniffing of chemicals, the misuse of
medicines especially painkillers and stimulants; drugs such as cocaine and heroin are very addictive
because a person who has taken them once will feel like taking them again. Other drugs become
addictive only after a long period of time. But addictions can be overcome with determination, effort
and support from families, schools and health workers.

3. Members of the community who have once been addicted but have overcome the habit can form a
“support group” to help others trying to give it up. “Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A) is one of such
organizations which have successfully helped people all over the world to solve addiction problems.
They teach the youth that there are other ways to ”feel great”, to act as “grown up” or to rebel. They
suggest to young people that they may fight for the abolition of hunger in the world or for the children’s
exploitative conditions of work, for the lack of opportunities to lead a better life. In addition, they tell
them that the disadvantaged young people can organize themselves and stand up for their rights
instead of addicting in alcohol and drugs.
Note: to overcome: to fight and take control of something
Adapted from “A village health care handbook for Africa”.
Edit MacMilan Education Ltd by David WERNER.

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Critères d’évaluation

Après avoir lu le texte ci-dessus, tu montreras que tu l’as compris en:

- reconnaissant certains de ses détails ;
- identifiant certaines de ses idées principales ;
- manifestant ta maitrise de son vocabulaire ;
- reformulant certaines de ses idées de façon autonome.

Consignes

Item 1 : Write True or False for these statements

1- Cigarettes and drug addiction cause death in the world.
2- Painskillers are not medicines.
3- Sniffing drugs and the misuse of medicines are not problems.
4- People can overcome drug addiction if they want.
5- Families can never help addicts to overcome addiction.

Item 2 : Answer these questions based on the text.

1-What problems does alcohol and drug taking cause?
2-Which drugs are more addictive than others?
3-Give two ways used by ‘’Alcoholics Anonymous’’ to help young people stop drug and alcohol
addiction.

Item 3 : Find in the text words meaning or nearly meaning the same as the following:
1-extremely large (paragraph1);
2-greater (paragraph1);
3-inhaling drugs (paragraph2);
4-to abandon (paragraph3);
5-adult (paragraph3);

Item 4 : Rephrase the following sentences using the prompts given.

1- Alcohol abuse causes enormous health, family and social problems.
-Enormous health, ……………………………………………………..
2- Tobacco companies have turned to poor countries because many people in rich countries stop
smoking.
-……………………………….that is why…………………………………..
3- ‘’A person who has taken drugs once will feel like taking them again’’, he said.
-He said that…………………………………………………………….
4- If young people in cities don’t stop taking drugs, they will become addicts.
-Unless……………………………………………………………………….

B- Production d’un texte de type particulier

Contexte
Beaucoup de jeunes personnes ne croient pas à l’existence du VIH/ SIDA et continuent d’avoir des
habitudes malsaines.

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Critères d’évaluation
Tu montreras ta compétence à rédiger un paragraphe en :
- respectant le contexte et le type de texte ;
- respectant sa logique interne ;
- construisant des phrases significatives et grammaticalement correctes ;
- utilisant le vocabulaire, l’orthographe et la ponctuation appropriés.

Tache

Writing

Write a paragraph on AIDS by answering these questions:

- What is AIDS?
- How do people catch it.
- How can we stop the spread of AIDS?
- Is AIDS a dreadful disease? Why?

(Ten lines)

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