CEG SEGOUE ANNÉE SCOLAIRE 2020-2021
Compétences à évaluer
CD2 : Réagir de façon précise et appropriée à des messages lus ou entendus.
CD3 : Produire de façon appropriée des textes de types et de fonctions variés.
A. REACTION TO A WRITTEN MESSAGE
Contexte : La langue anglaise est devenue au fil du temps le langage le plus utilisé et le plus
répandu à travers le monde entier. Son hégémonie sur les autres langues est frappante.
Support
Text:
Mandarin Chinese has been the biggest language by number of speakers for at least
the last thousand years and is now used by close to a billion people, but it never has
spread beyond China in any significant way. Spanish, like English, has grown explosively
in the past two centuries: each now has more than 400 million speakers. But Spanish
remains essentially confined to central and South America and Spain, while English is
everywhere.
There is a major power that uses English in every continent except South America:
the U.S. in North America, the United kingdom in Europe, South Africa in Africa, India in
Asia, and of course Australia (where the entire continent speaks it). All of that is because of
the British Empire, which once ruled one- quarter of the world’s people. For the same
reason, there are several dozen other countries where English is an official language.
Of course, the British Empire went into a steep decline almost a century ago, but the
superpower that took Britain’s place was the United States, another English speaking
country. English had become the first worldwide lingua franca.
There have been few languages in world history that were spoken by more people as
a second language than as a first; English has had that distinction for several decades
already. Never before has any language had more people learning it in a given year than it
has natives speakers; English probably has broken that record as well.
Most of those learners never will become fully fluent in English, but over the years
some hundreds of millions will, including the entire global elite. And the amount of effort
that is being invested in learning English is so great that it virtually guarantees that this
reality will persist for generations to, come.
No other language is threatened by this predominance of English. Italians are not
going to stop speaking Italian to one another, even if they have attended the Politecnico di
Milano, and no force on earth could stop the Chinese or the Arabs from speaking their own
language among themselves. But they will all speak English to foreigners.
By Gwinne Dyer, special to the BDN (posted May 21, 201
Critères: Après avoir lu le texte, tu montreras que tu l’as compris en :
- Reconnaissant les détails du texte ;
- Répondant à des questions sur le texte ;
- Complétant des phrases en tenant compte du texte ;
- Manipulant certains mots du texte ;
- Reformulant certaines phrases sans modifier leur sens ;
- Traduisant un extrait du texte en français.
Consignes
Item1: Answer by Right or Wrong according to the text (08 points)
1- Mandarin Chinese is a language confined in China.
2- The British Empire once ruled 25% of the world’s population.
3- English is spoken everywhere.
4- The Chinese or the Arabs will speak their languages to foreigners.
Item2: Answer these questions on the text. (12 points)
1- Where is Mandarin Chinese spoken?
2- Give examples which show that English is spoken in every continent.
3- Which of Britain and the United States used to be the first power centuries ago?
Item3: Complete the following sentences according to the text (10 points)
1- ………….. have now more than 400 million speakers.
2- Due to ……….., English has spread to all the continents.
3- The United States took …………………..
4- …………….has become the world’s lingua franca.
Item 4: Find in the text the opposites of: (10 points)
5- Far from (paragraph 1)
6- Minor (paragraph 2)
7- Rise (paragraph 3)
8- Surely (paragraph 4)
Item5: Rephrase these sentences using the prompts given. Don’t change their meaning
(10 points)
1- Go where you want, people will speak English to you.
Wherever …………………………………………………….
2- You can choose any job you like, but you need English in order to succeed.
No matter ……………………………………………………..
3- Spanish has more than 400 speakers. English has more than 400 speakers.
Both………………and…..…………………………………….
4- I would become English teacher if had learnt it.
Had……………………………………………………………….
Item 6: Translation (10 points)
Translate the last paragraph of the text into French
B. LA PRODUCTION D’UN TEXTE DE TYPE PARTICULIER
Contexte:
Vu son importance, l’anglais est considéré comme une langue universelle.
Critère : Tu montreras ta compétence à rédiger un texte argumentatif en anglais en :
- Respectant le contexte ;
- Faisant preuve de cohérence dans le raisonnement ;
- Utilisant le vocabulaire et l’orthographe adéquats ;
- Respectant la ponctuation.
Writing: (30 points)
Do you think it is necessary to learn English language in Beninese schools?
Not more than 20 lines
CP :(10 points)
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