Anglais : Session 2010

BACCALAURÉAT DE L’ENSEIGNEMENT GÉNÉRAL

Épreuve de : ANGLAIS
Durée : 02 heures 30 minutes
Coefficient : Bonification ; Série C-D

TEXT:

Traditionally daily household chores are divided according gender roles. Women take care of the indoor activities and men outdoor ones. For example, women do the washing, ironing of the clothes, cooking, tidying the house and keep the house clean. Men, however, look after the livestock; chop firewood, pod rice and corn and maintaining the house’s construction and fix things that are broken.

However, this division of household labor is changing. More women are employed outside the home and becoming successful. By the time get home after work, they are tired. They expect men to help them with indoor activities in order to keep the house running.

A- READING COMPREHENSION 

I- Find the text 

1. The equivalent of “to maintain”. 
2. The opposite of “remaining”.

II- Choose the best answer 

1- Household chores nowadays are: 

1. completely bad
2. remaining 
3. changing 

2- An example of a gender specific chore usually for men is: 

1. feeding poultry 
2. chopping firewood
3. cooking for family 

III- Say is these following statements are TRUE or FALSE. Justify your answer 

1. Housework has traditionally been regarded for men’s work.
2. As women get more and more success by working outside the home they have less time to do the indoor activities.

IV- Complete with words taken from the text 

1. Most of student leave early in the morning ………… not to arrive late at school.
2. What we realize …………… success of women by working outside the home.

V- Answer the following question 

1. What are the three household chores women usually do?
2. Why do women expect men to help them with indoor activities? 

B- GRAMMAR IN USE

Fill in each blank with a grammatical item

………….(1)………….England, the two most famous universities……….(2)………….Cambridge and Oxford, in……..(3)……….U.S.A there is the Harvard University. The university is divided ………(4)………faculties.

C- INDIRECT TEST OF SPEAKING 

I- Make the following sentences more formal 

1. Why don’t’ you come out with us at the weekend?
2. Bring me a glass of water!

II- Complete the following dialogue

Susan: Hello,…………………?

Betty: Fine, thanks.

Susan :………………………

Betty: I’m glad to see you, too.

Susan: Let’s ………………….

Betty: Ok. That’s a good idea.

C- WRITING  

What are the advantages and the drawbacks of sports? (In about 80words).