Conseils et Recommandations

Exercice 1 : Il est demandé de mettre en ordre les mots des 2 phrases données mais aussi d'ajouter des articles / des verbes / des pronoms relatifs et des prépositions afin d'obtenir des phrases ayant un sens.
Exercice 2 : Il s'agit de fournir une seule phrase en combinant les six phrases proposées. On notera qu'il y a là plusieurs possibilités (voir corrigé)
Exercice 3 : Il s'agit d'une lettre non officielle (informal) à un ami / une amie.
Faites attention au style (il s'agit d'une lettre adressée à un ami), et à la qualité de la langue (grammaire et vocabulaire)
 
Corrigé
 

Task 1 : Use the following notes to write complete definitions.

a- solicitor / person / qualified / give advice / legal matters.
        A solicitor is a qualified person giving advice on legal matters.
        A solicitor is a qualified person who gives advice on legal matters.
        A solicitor is a person (who is) qualified to give advice on legal matters.
b- bookcase / piece of furniture / has shelves / hold books.
        A bookcase is a piece of furniture which has shelves to hold books.
        A bookcase is a piece of furniture having shelves for holding books.
        A bookcase is a piece of furniture with shelves (to hold books / for holding books).

Task 2 : Combine the following into one sentence.

    A tourist's bomb blew TAN flight 107 out of the air. This bomb killed all the passengers. It also killed all the crew. Besides, it caused the destruction of many other lives in the city of Sotasun. The plane fell on Sotasun. All this happened in November 1973.

1- A tourist's bomb blew TAN flight 107 out of the air, killing all the passengers and the crew and causing the destruction of many other lives in the city of Sotasun where /on which it fell in November 1973.

2- A tourist's bomb blew TAN flight 107 out of the air, killed all the passengers and the crew and caused the destruction of many other lives in the city of Sotasun where it fell in November 1973.

3- In Novembre 1973, a tourist's bomb blew TAN flight 107 out of the air, killed all the passengers and the crew and caused the destruction of many other lives in the city of Sotasun where it fell in November 1973.

4- A tourist's bomb, which blew TAN flight 107 out of the air, killed all the passengers and the crew and caused the destruction of many other lives in the city of Sotasun where the plane fell in Novembe 1973.

Task 3: Your Bosnian friend Akila and her family write you a 12-line letter in order to thank you for having invited them to stay at your home in Tunisia during the Bosnian conflict. They also say nice things about Tunisia (the people, the weather, the country, etc...). At the end of her letter, Akila invites you to visit her in Bosnia.
Write Akila's letter to you (Your name is Aly or Alya).

Dear Aly (or Alya),

Les critères suivants seront pris en considération lors de la correction

Adherence to content and organization
Register (informal language)
Language (gr & voc.)
Punctuation, spelling, and capitalization
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Yours with lots of love,
Akila and her family

 

Task 4 : Read this paragraph and cross out the sentence that is not related to the main idea.

Many Americans prefer to be their own bosses, and they are willing to take risks for the chance of making it (1). Starting a business is a quick and easy matter (2). Some 10 million Americans owned their businesses in 1984, and four times that number owned a part of business and industries (3). Yet, America is far from being a "free entreprise" market (4). Anyone trying to start a business is faced with many regulations and restrictions (5).

Answer : Sentence n°2