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Teenagers and Sports

The text addresses the theme of sports practice among adolescents, highlighting its benefits such as escape, physical development, and expression of youth, while warning against the dangers of excessive practice that can lead to physical burnout and academic issues. The author emphasizes that an obsession with sports can harm personal balance and academic success for young people. In summary, sports are presented as a double-edged sword, bringing both pleasure and risks.

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Teenagers and Sports

The text addresses the theme of sports practice among adolescents, highlighting its benefits such as escape, physical development, and expression of youth, while warning against the dangers of excessive practice that can lead to physical burnout and academic issues. The author emphasizes that an obsession with sports can harm personal balance and academic success for young people. In summary, sports are presented as a double-edged sword, bringing both pleasure and risks.

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Abdel Hack Ben Hamouda High School

2nd trimester exam/ 2017


Level: [Link]/[Link]/[Link]
Teenagers and sports
In my opinion, teenagers, as a whole, enjoy practicing sports; it offers them a
hobby that can be prolonged, it allows for an easy escape due to effort and attention
that he claims, which forces them to forget their worries, he realizes their dreams of becoming strong and
develop their bodies and consequently allows them to be admired by others and to be
proud, it is also an activity in which violence and aggression can be released in the form of
of play, which is a balancing factor for personality. Finally, it is an activity in which
they can express their physical strength and youth: is it not, ultimately, the only realm
Where the teenager certainly shows superiority over the adult?
It is true that the more sports provide success to young people and highlight them, the more it is appreciated.
of them, but its practice, overly encouraged, can be dangerous for the teenager.
First, it can lead to physical overexertion: driven by the desire for performance and
rivalry, many tire themselves out unnecessarily and fall ill. Furthermore, this harms their work.
school-related. Then, it is on the psychological level that dangers can arise: these adolescents
they become obsessed! They think only about sports. In the newspapers, they read only the articles
athletes, they only talk about sporting results, they identify with champions. Naturally their
academic results are poor because their attention cannot keep up with the topics covered in class, they do not
dream only of stadiums and their only hope is to have a sports career, like their
favorite champions ...
According to Avanzini

The Time of Adolescence (University Editions).


(in: Themes & Texts, BEP 2, 1983)
I- Comprehension: 14 points

What is the theme addressed in this text?


2- Does the author get involved in this text? Justify.
The author expresses two main ideas in this text, which are they?
4- Complete the table below with information taken from the text: 2p
The benefits of sports The harms of sports
Isn't it, in the end, the only area where the adolescent certainly shows superiority over
the adult?
Cette proposition veut dire : 1p
that the adolescent athlete becomes stronger than the adult
that the adult cannot play sports permanently
that each of them likes to dominate the other in the field of sport.
6 - "It can lead to physical overload" The underlined word means: 1p
a- A break. A fatigue. A force.
7-Relevez deux termes appartenant au champ lexical de ‘danger’.1p
8-What is the argumentative strategy followed by the author? Highlight the expression in the text that reflects it.

show. 2ps (Question for 3ASTM/[Link])


9- 'he realizes their dreams of becoming strong' who is referred to by each of the underlined pronouns? 1p
He fulfills their dreams of becoming strong and developing their bodies, and consequently allows them
to be admired by others and to be proud.
What is the relationship expressed in this sentence? 1p.
I. Written production: 6 points

Topic 1: Write the objective report of the text "adolescents and sports" (Question for
3ASTM/[Link]
Subject 2:
Violence in stadiums has increasingly escalated in our society to the point where
specialists sound the alarm. Give your opinion on violence in stadiums.
(Justify with arguments).

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