Conseils et Recommandations
 
Exercice 1 : Se référer à la 1ère question de langue de l'épreuve du Bac de Juin 1998 (Session principale).
Exercice 2 : Il s'agit de combiner les mots de la colonne A avec ceux de la colonne B pour obtenir des "paires" ayant un sens plausible.
Exercice 3 : Il est demandé d'ajouter des lettres aux mots incomplets.
Une lecture attentive de ce paragraphe permet de comprendre le contexte et de réussir cet exercice à priori assez complexe mais finalement très accessible.
Corrigé


1. Circle the right option to fill each blank.

Robert Weir was    1    in Dundee when he heard the    2   on the radio    3   an incident at Dunblane primary school.
"   4   was chaos when I got    5    the school", he said. "People were    6    . It was terrible. The parents were    7   into a house    8   the school. There they waited      9   two hours".
"They called out four names", said Robert. "Our son was one of    10   . They took us into a    11   room and I    12   that Stewart was    13    . But Stewart was    14   . It was Megan, his    15   friend, who    16   along with    17   ."

1) work / worked / working
2) music / speech / news
3) in / for / about
4) Their / They're / There
5) at / in / to
6) laughing / drinking / screaming
7) taking / took / taken
8) over / beside / away
9) since / for / during
10) theirs / their / them
11) separated / separating / separate
12) was thinking / thought / have thought
13) died / dying / dead
14) live/ lived / alive
15) little bright / bright little
16) was died / is dead / was dead
17) other 15 children / 15 other children


2. Match a word from column A with a word from column B to get 7 meaningful pairs :

Column A

Column B

Pairs
  1) former
  2) drug
  3) colour
  4) hair
  5) fluent
  6) bus
  7) delivery		   a) English
  b) boycott
  c) boy
  d) spouse
  e) abuse
  f) shampoo
  g) prejudice		   former spouse
  drug abuse
  colour prejudice
  hair shampoo
  fluent English
  bus boycott
  delivery boy

3. 8 words in the paragraph below are incomplete. Some letters are given.
Add the missing letters to complete the unfinished words.

    When does a doctor have the right to kill a patient ? Practising euthanasia still remains a crime in Holland, punishable by a sentence of up to 12 years in prison. But last week the parliament's lower house voted 91 to 45 in favour of a law designed to protect Dutch physicians from prosecution for helping patients die.