Conseils et Recommandations

Exercice 1 : Se référer aux exercices de langue n°2 et 4 de l'épreuve de Juin 1998 (Session principale).
Exercice 2 : Se référer à l'exercice de langue n°1 de l'épreuve de Juin 1998 (Session principale).
Exercice 3 : Cet exercice mérite une attention particulière. Il s'agit non pas de combiner tous les mots de la colonne A avec ceux de la colonne B mais de combiner 4 mots de A avec 4 mots de B afin d'obtenir des pairs ayant un sens. Vos connaissances personnelles puisées dans votre cours d'anglais du programme de la 7è Année vous permettront de trouver facilement les réponses demandées.
Exercice 4 : Se référer à la question n°3 (language) de l'épreuve de Juin 1998 (Session principale).
 
Corrigé

1. Fill in the 6 blanks with the 6 words listed in the box :

lured - settled - move - employment - nation - conditions

    Some social scientists attribute American's interest in genealogy to the mobility that has always characterizd American society. From the beginning, America has been a nation of movers. Once immigrants reached the United States, they often kept moving, lured by the hope of better employment or greater prosperity or driven by deteriorating social or economic conditions. After the western territories were settled, Americans continued to move from the city to the suburbs and from city to city. Indeed, the idea of being on the move approaches something of a national ethic. 

2. Underline the correct alternative :

    Everyone knows that a woman who smokes during pregnancy (must - may - should) harm (a fetus - the fetus - fetus). It now appears that secondhand smoke (must - ought to - can) do the same. In tests (at - on - with) newborns, those (whom - whose - which) mothers worked or lived with smokers had twice the level of (nicotine - relating; nicotine - relation; nicotine - related) compounds in their system (like - than - as) those who had mothers living in a (smoke - free; free - smoke; free - smoked) setting

3. Match 4 words from column A with 4 words from column B to get 4 meaningful pairs :

A

B

Pairs
   population
   lingering
   elementary
   emancipate
   religious
   surgical
   ethnic
   rocky		    school
   passengers
   census
   proprietorship
   times
   laws
   accent
   disease

   1- population
       census
   2- lingering
       disease
   3- elementary
        school
   4- rocky
       times

4. Put the verbs in brackets in the right tense and / or form :

    Last week, UNICEF published its 50th anniversary issue on the state of the world's children, focusing on the plight of children (catch) caught up in wars and conflicts.The report, "State of the World's Children 1996,"says that in the last decade, 2 million children (be killed) have been killed in wars. (Ou "were killed"). UNICEF recommends that the minimum age for recruitment of soldiers (be raised) be raised (or should be raised) to 18.