Anglais

CENTRE NATIONAL DE TÉLÉ-ENSEIGNEMENT DE MADAGASCAR (CNTEMAD)
EXAMEN SEMESTRE I
2016– 2017

 

ANGLAIS I

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TEXT :

 Mass media are communications – whether written, broadcast or spoken – that reach a large audience. They include television, radio, advertising, movies, the Internet, newspapers, magazines, and so on. Mass media are significant force in modern culture, particularity in America. Sociologists refer to this as mediated culture where media reflect and create the culture. Communities and individuals are bombarded constantly with messages from a multitude of sources including TV, billboards and magazines, to name a few. These messages promote not only products, but moods, attitudes and a sense of what is and is not important. Mass media make the concept of celebrity possible; without the ability of movies, magazines, and news, media which reach thousands of miles, people could not become famous. In fact, only political and business leaders, as well as the few notorious outlaws were famous in the past. Only in recent times have actors, singers and other social elites become celebrities of “stars”.

QUESTIONS

I- COMPREHENSION AND VOCABULARY (6pts):

A- Vocabulary (1pt)

– Find in the text the synonym of : “Skill”

– Find the opposite of: “traditional”

B- True or False? Justify your answer (2pts)

  1. Media are culture.
  2. People’s fame is due to media.

C- Answer the following questions in your own words (3pts)

1- What are mass media? (0,5pt)
2- What role do mass media play according to the text? (1pt)
3- How do they act? (0,5pt)
4- What result such enterprise? (1pt)

II- Give an English summary of the text in about 50 words. (2pts)

III- Translate the following into French (2pts)

“Mass media are communications – whether written, broadcast or spoken – that reach a large audience. They include television, radio, advertising, movies, the Internet, newspapers, magazines, and so on.”

IV- GRAMMAR (6,5 pts)

A- Supply the correct verbal forms and tenses: (1pt)

  • He usually (drink) coffee but today he (take) tea.
  • You ever (eat) snake?

B- Complete the following sentence (1pt):

  • If I were rich, I…………….

C- Ask the questions corresponding to the given answers (1,5pts):

Reference sentence: Mass media life depends on publicity.

Question 1: ………………….?

Answer: Mass media life.

Question 2: ……………………?

Answer: Publicity.

D- Fill in the blanks with “some, any, no or their compounds” (0,5pt):

  • Will you have…. tea.
  • He left the village two years ago and …. has seen him ever since.

E- Supply the appropriate relative pronoun (0,25pts)

  • The man …… bag is brown is my Maths teachers.

F- Use the comparative or the superlative: (0,25pts)

  • John is (clever) pupil in our class. He always gets good marks.

G- Put into the passive (1pt):

  • They were laughing at him.

H- Put into correct speech (1pt)

  • He asked her if she had bought milk.

V- GENERAL QUESTIONS (3,5pts)

  • What are the three functions of mass media? (1,5pts)
  • What are the bad impacts of mass media on children? (2pts)