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Sujet n: 5

Day proposes national ID card

Ottawa Sooner or later, Canadians will have to carry some form of identification other than a passport to travel outside the country, says the new federal minister of public safety. The British Commons has just adopted legislation for a government-issued national ID card and Stockwell Day suggested in an interview with The Canadian Press that such a card is inevitable for Canada. "At this point, I don't know what it should be called, to tell you the truth," Mr. Day said. "I don't know if we'll call it that, but we want good, law-abiding people to have smooth and quick access at all border points not just North American, but international." New life is being breathed into the proposal now that the United States has dropped its demand that Canadians be required to show passports to cross the border. "We also want to be able to stop people who are a menace or a threat from getting in or getting out, so that's the overall goal," Mr. Day said. Mr. Day said the need for identification of some sort came up again this week when he spoke on the phone with his U.S. counterpart, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Cherkoff. "I think it's fair to say that in both Canada and the U.S. we do want some kind of enhanced security provision," he said. "Whether that's some kind of a biometric approach, an enhancement on a driver's licence all of that needs to be explored, so we do want to see enhanced technological capacity in that area." The idea of a national ID card was raised in the months following the Sept.11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States but proposals go back even further, as a way of replacing the abused social insurance number. Former Liberal Immigration minister Denis Coderre has always supported a card to identify Canadians, over and above the passport. A plastic card could be made to contain biometric and data information that a paper passport could not. He said this week that it's only a matter of time before other countries follow Britain and that Canada should act to ensure control over data. "We have to have a real debate on this, we cannot bury our head in the sand anymore. Three years ago we were in the avant-garde, but right now we're trailing." Adapted from The Globe and Mail Canadian Press, Friday, February 17, 2006.

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Sujet n: 6

The Wild Web of China: Sex and Drugs, Not Reform

SHANGHAI By some estimates, there are more than 30,000 people patrolling the Web in China, helping to form one of the world's far-reaching Internet filtering systems. But while China's huge Internet police force is busy deleting annoying phrases like "free speech" and "human rights" from online bulletin boards, specialists say that Wild West capitalism has moved from the real economy in China to the virtual one. Chinese entrepreneurs who started out brazenly selling downloadable pirated music and movies from online storefronts have extended their product lines peddling drugs and sex, stolen cars, firearms and even organs for transplanting. Much of this is happening because Internet use has grown so fast, with 110 million Web surfers in China, second only to the United States. Last year, online revenue which the government defines more broadly than it is in the United States was valued at $69 billion, up around 58 percent from the year before, according to a survey by the China Internet Development Research Center. By 2010, Wall Street analysts say China could have the world's leading online commerce, with revenue coming from advertising, e-commerce and subscription fees, as well as illicit services. The authorities have vowed to crack down on illegal Web sites and say that more than 2,000 sex and gambling sites have been shut down in recent years. But new sites are eluding them every day. "It's a wild place," Xiao Qiang, director of the China Internet Project at the graduate journalism school of the University of California, Berkeley, said of China's Web. "Outside of politics, China is as free as anywhere. You can find porn just about anywhere on the Internet." On any of China's leading search engines, enter sensitive political terms like "Tiananmen Square" or "Falun Gong," and the computer is likely to crash or simply offer a list of censored Web sites. But terms like "hot sex" or "illegal drugs" take users to dozens of links to Web sites allowing them to download sex videos, gain entry to online sports gambling dens or even make purchases of heroin. The scams are flourishing. Adapted from The New York Times, March 8, 2006.

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Sujet n: 7

Tourists bleed resorts dry

Pools and golf courses make insatiable demands on water supplies
To tourists they are exotic paradises, unspoilt, and full of local charm. But many holiday resorts struggle to cope with relentless waves of visitors, whose demands for ever more swimming pools and golf courses are sucking them dry. The issue is massive and global, said Tricia Barnett, director of Tourism Concern, a British charity that campaigns for more responsible approaches to travel. Tourists in Africa will be having a shower and then will see a local woman with a pot of water on her head, and they are not making the connection. Sometimes youll see a village with a single tap, when each hotel has taps and showers in every room. Southern Spain and the Balearic islands, favourites with British holidaymakers, are getting drier by the year as ancient springs dry up. Benidorms water table is now so low and the demand from its 30,000 swimming pools so insatiable that it has to pipe much of its water along a 480km pipeline from Madrid. The problem is that tourists demand so much water. WWF has calculated that a tourist in Spain uses 880 litres of water a day compared with 250 litres by a local. An 18-hole golf course in a dry country can consume as much water as a town of 10,000 inhabitants. The United Nations food and agriculture organisation has estimated that in 55 days a hundred tourists use enough water to grow rice to feed a hundred villagers for 15 years. Village wells in Goa, in India, are running dry, and rivers are being polluted by effluent released from hotels. In the Caribbean hundreds of thousands of people go without piped water during the high tourist season, as springs are piped to hotels. Local communities are beginning to say enough is enough. The Balearic islands voted to impose a 85c tax per day on each traveller to address problem caused by hasty development in the 60s and 70s. Attitudes are changing, said Ms Barnett, but slowly. We like to believe there is consumer power out there. Ask your tour operator where the water in your hotel comes from. Who owns the hotel? If consumers start asking these questions, operators will start asking them too. Esther Addley Adapted from The Guardian Weekly, May 31 - June 6, 2001.

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Sujet n: 8

What a loving home means to a child's wellbeing

Deprivation does physical and mental damage Lack of care and attention leads to lower IQs
Depriving children of a loving family environment causes lasting damage to their intelligence, emotional wellbeing and even their physical stature, according to the most extensive study of social deprivation yet. The study has been running for five years and records the wellbeing of children in a Romanian orphanage from an early age, and the changes they experience when transferred to foster care. The orphanage represents an extreme of social deprivation because the children are typically looked after by a rota of carers who will be responsible for 12 to 15 children at a time. Researchers found children living in deprived conditions suffered stunted growth, falling within the shortest 10% for their age. But on moving to a foster home, they went through astounding growth spurt. "They can grow five times faster than normal and by the time they've been in foster care for a year and a half, they will nearly have caught up," said Dana Johnson, professor of pediatrics at the University of Minnesota, who estimates children in orphanages lose one month of growth for every three they spend there. The researchers say the children's recovery is unlikely to be explained by better nutrition as they had adequate meals before. Instead, they believe the effect is down to the more attentive environment. The study found that a child's environment had a marked effect on intelligence and emotional development too. It showed that children in the most deprived conditions had exceptionally low IQs, but once they were removed to foster homes, improved when tested again at 42 and 54 months. Similarly, the children's ability to express positive emotions also improved markedly when they were moved into a family environment. The report, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in St. Louis yesterday, shows that emotional and cognitive impairments caused by a poor social environment can be substantially improved if living conditions are improved early enough. Adapted from The Guardian, Saturday February 18, 2006

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Sujet n: 9
Fightback against animal rights extremists
Laurie Pycroft wanted to see his friends last Thursday evening to prepare placards, slogans and speeches for a street demo about animal testing. But his mum said no: he had to stay in. Pycroft is just 16. Yesterday on the streets of Oxford, however, he had his say mobilising a crowd of students and dons much older than himself. It was a remarkable feat. For this teenager had inspired a demonstration in favour of animal experiments and against the violent animal rights lobby. Pycroft has become a beacon for supporters of medical research involving animals. While the public have largely remained silent in the face of threats, intimidations and outright terrorism by extremists, Pycroft has stood up to be counted. "Animal testing is a relatively small but essential part of medical research. Without it there would not be a lot of key progress in fighting illnesses and disease," said the bespectacled youngster, "I think groups sometimes need to put their heads above the parapet." Since he publicly spoke out in favour of animal experimentation, he has received abusive e-mails from animal rights campaigners, including some that threatened: We are going to kill you. Huntingdon Life Sciences, one of the companies involved in animal experimentation, has suffered numerous attacks on its premises and staff. When Oxford University began work on a new laboratory, protesters frightened off the first construction firm. Fearing similar trouble, Cambridge University quietly abandoned its plans for a new laboratory. As hundreds of people marched through Oxford yesterday in support of the laboratory, Pycroft was mildly abused. My parents seem to be coping quite well, considering the risks, he said, I am extremely proud of what I have done. Tipu Aziz, a consultant neurosurgeon at the university, told the crowd: What are we seeing today ? We are seeing a return of reason. We are seeing people stand up for themselves, letting scientists defend what they are doing. We are defending our right to better humanitys plight. More than that, we are seeing a return of democracy in the UK.

Adapted from The Sunday Times, February 26, 2006.

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Sujet n: 10
TV should put more women in mens roles
MINISTERS should urge television programme-makers and advertisers to portray more women in traditional mens jobs, according to a report commissioned by Tony Blair published tomorrow. The Women and Work Commission report will recommend non-stereotypical characters for TV soap operas and commercials in order to encourage better role models for schoolgirls. It is one of several proposals in the long-awaited report, which was set up to tackle the pay gap and different promotion prospects between the sexes. The commission, chaired by the Labour peer Baroness Prosser, has found that girls are still being steered towards stereotypical subjects at school which lead them into lower-paid careers. Women also lose out when they return to work after having babies, and are often forced into parttime jobs that underuse their skills, the report finds. The report, to be launched by Blair and Gordon Brown tomorrow alongside Prosser, concludes that while girls outperform boys at school, that advantage disappears once they get into the workplace. The commission will call for better vocational training and work experience for girls, to steer them towards the traditional male bastions of the job market. It also wants to highlight exemplar companies, which have achieved business success by promoting women. The report also recommends working with firms to increase the range of jobs that can be done on part-time or flexible basis, and adapting current childcare and employment programmes to help women returning to work after having children. Early action in response to the report is expected in Browns March 22 budget. The chancellor read the report last week and is said to have been impressed. New financial incentives will be provided for job centre advisers to steer women away from jobs with low pay and low prospects and into work in which there is career progression. Adapted from THE SUNDAY TIMES, February 26, 2006.

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Sujet n: 11

A CITY SAVED BY IMMIGRANTS A small framed photo in Jaffer Kasparis office, just off the Asian Golden Mile in Leicester, shows the 54-year-old accountant accepting an OBE from the Prince of Wales for services to business. The citation should also have included praise for his role in helping to build a successful multicultural city in the heart of middle England which is the envy of other communities with a big migrant population. Leicester is a far cry from Jaffers homeland of Uganda, where he was bundled on to a plane with his family in 1972 by the brutal dictator Idi Amin, with only 55 (80 euros) to face the future. At the time, city fathers were strongly opposed to an influx of East African Asians. The city was in savage decline, with its traditional textile and engineering industries going bust. Its economy has been transformed, with Asian businessmen leading the way. We came here as bus drivers and conductors, assembling typewriters, says Jaffer, a spokesman for the Leicester Asian Businessmens association. Thirty years on, the people who were bus drivers now employ white people to do the jobs they used to do. Leicester is on track to become the first English city with a black majority by 2011, according to the experts. Two of its four outgoing MPs are black, as are 14 city councillors. There are Asian radio stations and a wide range of ethnic facilities reflecting the polyglot mixture of races, religions and cultures. Somalis make up the newest wave of migrants. Most of them have come from other parts of the EU, attracted by the economic opportunities. Among them is Abdi Rahman Sudi, a 16-year-old student Abdi has just won a scholarship to Eton, the most exclusive public school in the country. Yet, English is his third language. He arrived in Leicester from Stockholm less than five years ago with his family. His mother works in a school and his dad is currently unemployed. Abdi is a Muslim who is rather less devout than his parents wish. He criticises those of his own age who are apolitical: Its important to get involved and make the change. Between them Jaffer and Abdi span the spectrum of modern immigration transforming the nation.

Adapted from The Mirror, Today In English - September 2005.

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Sujet n: 12
CYBERBULLIES SPREAD FEAR IN SCHOOLS

When Maggie Styles started going out with a new boyfriend, everything was heaven. She was 15, he was a popular school athlete and she basked in the envy and admiration of her friends. Then the emails started to arrive. The first was brief and from an address that Styles did not recognise : Im watching you, you bitch. Then she was sent the address of a blog, or web diary, where she was stunned to find an entry claiming that she had a sexually transmitted disease. The final blow was an emailed photograph of her new boyfriend naked with another girl. Internet watchdogs are becoming increasingly concerned about the spread of so-called cyberbullying, an online abuse that has begun to hurt children across America mostly without their parents realising that anything is amiss. We are all familiar with school bullies, said Parry Aftab, a lawyer who specialises in internet privacy. Cyberbullying is the online equivalent. It is any kind of harassment, insult or humiliation that uses internet-related technology. Aftab will join a large group of teachers, parents and internet safety experts at a New York conference on cyberbullying this week. It is one of the first significant attempts to alert parents to a largely invisible form of teenage intimidation spawned by the worldwide vogue for camera phones, text messaging and internet chat rooms. Researchers who have studied teenage internet use have discovered websites where children vote, for instance, for the ugliest girl in their school. As teenagers increasingly turn to blogs, some of these diaries have become a hotbed of cruelties, Aftab added. Experts are warning parents that their children may be reluctant to admit being the victims of cyberbullying. A kid who gets beaten up in school has to go home with a black eye or a split lip, said Jon Lieberman, a clinical psychologist. A kid that gets beaten up on the internet doesnt show those physical indicators. But some kids are tortured unmercifully. The problem is particularly acute in prosperous suburbs, where teenagers tend to have "lots of technology, too much time on their hands and not enough parental supervision" Aftab said. Tony-Allen-Mills Adapted from The Sunday Times , February 2006.

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Sujet n: 13

Schools to ban fizzy drinks and chocolate

Schools will be banned from selling junk food and told to give pupils cereals and yoghurt drinks following decisions to tackle child obesity. Parents will also be issued with guidelines on food high in fat and sugar which should not be included in their childrens packed lunches. Nuts, cereals and yoghurt drinks will replace crisps, chocolate and fizzy drinks in sweet-shops, after-school clubs and vending machines, say the guidelines issued yesterday by the governmentappointed School Food Trust (SFT). The laws to help children stop eating sweets and chocolate will be among the toughest in the world and will take fizzy sugary drinks off the menu, as well as diet and sport drinks and flavoured waters. They come just days after the Audit Commission attacked the Government for its indecision and lack of leadership over the implementation of measures to curb child obesity. Children will be allowed to have milk, yoghurt drinks, water and fruit juices as well as tea, coffee and low-calorie hot chocolate. Crisps will be banned at all times, but cakes and biscuits will be allowed at lunch and in after-school clubs. Dame Suzi Leather, chairman of the SFT, said the rules, to be introduced from September, were necessary because children were eating too much sugar, fat and salt with little or no nutritional value. They (the new rules) cannot succeed if pupils are surrounded with chocolate, crisps and drinks that fill them up with sugar and fat during the school day, she said. Anecdotal evidence suggests that when these products are removed, behaviour improves and this could also have implications for better learning. The SFT said that about a quarter of children were obese or overweight and 53 per cent of the 4-18 age group had dental decay. The food and soft drinks industry is estimated to make 45 million a year from school vending machines. Schools are believed to make 2,500 a year per vending machine. A spokesman for the Automatic Vending Association, whose machines are only in secondary schools, said: we think educated choice would have been better than outright prohibition. Adapted from the Times on line news, March 03, 2006 by Alexandra Blair and Tony Alpin .

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Sujet n: 14

Fashion item or symbol of fear?

A moral debate sparked by a shopping mall's ban on hooded tops goes right to the heart of British life

The zip on 14-year-old Sophie's white hooded top is pulled fashionably low, showing off her gold chains as she talks. She and her mates, hanging around McDonald's on the Crayford roundabout in Kent, may look a little intimidating - cigarettes and cans of lager are freely shared - but they are adamant, there is nothing to fear. Besides, she argues, the ban on wearing 'hoodies' imposed last week by the local Bluewater shopping centre, triggering a national debate over behaviour, is illogical. 'I wouldn't mind, but they sell all these tops in Bluewater. Why don't they stop selling them before they ban them?' Children like Sophie are now at the heart of a controversy with implications way beyond teenage fashion. Tony Blair warned last week of a 'culture of disrespect' sweeping Britain. The 'minister for yobs' Hazel Blears, today targets what amounts to a fundamental coarsening of public life: swearing, spitting, drinking and neglectful parenting which, she argues, reflect a wider breakdown of community ties and the abandonment of formerly accepted 'norms of behaviour'. Restoring respect means, Blears says, not just punishing unruly teenagers, but changing their parents' lifestyles. However, she insists it is not about finding scapegoats. It is, she concedes, hard to generalise about causes of poor behaviour, but families now spend less time together than previous generations did, and she worries about the lack of male role models in singleparent families. Blears wants to target the vast majority of well-behaved teens disgruntled that their delinquent colleagues get all the attention: 'I went to a school and talked to young people in Crosby, and they said: "Why is it the bad kids who get the trips out, the football, the coaching, whereas the good kids end up sitting in their bedrooms?"' Adapted from The Observer, Sunday May 15, 2005.

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Nature de lpreuve Modalits de passation Quelques lments statistiques Rapport sur l'preuve

Nature de lpreuve orale Lpreuve a eu pour objectif de vrifier et dvaluer les comptences suivantes : 1-Comptence de comprhension dun texte crit. Dans un 1er temps le candidat est invit exprimer librement les informations essentielles contenues dans le texte. En gnral les textes s'articulent autour de quatre, cinq points porteurs de sens. 2-Comptence de comprhension orale, des questions poses par le jury. 3-Comptence de production orale : *qualit de la prsentation des ides prleves dans le texte (compte-rendu construit, argument) *qualit de la ractivit aux questions poses : pertinence des rponses, largissement du propos, apprciation de la prise de risque, aisance langagire. 4-Qualit des outils linguistiques : *la phonologie (chane parle rythme systme des sons) *la syntaxe (correction grammaticale mise en uvre darticulateurs) *le lexique (justesse richesse) 5-Qualit de lecture (aisance phonologie expressivit par rapport au sens). Modalits de passation Chaque jury est constitu de 2 enseignants. La grille dvaluation et les documents supports ont t labors par lAcadmie de Clermont-Ferrand ces derniers ont t tudis au Rectorat par les jurys le 14 juin ils ont fait lobjet de la rdaction de propositions dexploitation afin dassurer un consensus dvaluation entre les examinateurs, ceci dans un souci dquit par rapport aux candidats. Un sujet par journe, impliquant un confinement des candidats. Prparation : 30 mn Passage : 20 mn Prsentation du compte rendu : 5 mn Lecture : 1 2 mn environ Dlibration du jury : 10 mn Questions : 13 14 mn environ

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Quelques lments statistiques Nombre de candidats prsents 343 candidats Rsultats chiffrs Note la plus faible obtenue Note la plus leve obtenue Moyenne des notes obtenues 1 20 10,09/20

Rapport sur l'preuve Type de document support : Les thmes taient lis des proccupations d'actualit et souvent extraits de magazines ou journaux. Titre des sujets retenus (certains de ces textes ont galement t proposs dans les acadmies de Bordeaux, Limoges, Nantes, Rennes, Caen, La Runion, Orlans-Tours) : Day proposes National Identity card Tourists bleed resorts dry Fightback against animal rights extremists A city saved by immigrants Schools to ban fizzy drinks and chocolate The wild web of China What a loving home means to a childs wellbeing TV should put more women in mens roles Cyberbullies spread fear in schools Fashion item, or symbol of fear

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En gnral, Les candidats qui ont le mieux russi sont ceux qui ont su bien restituer les informations essentielles, prsentes partir dun plan clair, en les illustrant dexemples pris dans le texte ou lis leurs propres connaissances du sujet. Ils ont su analyser, argumenter, donner leur avis personnel et parfois lancer des pistes pour un largissement ultrieur. Leur ractivit lors de l'change leur a permis de garder la parole sur un temps "long", permettant au jury d'apprcier la fluidit du langage et la qualit phonologique. Ces candidats ont parfois d'eux-mmes apport des prcisions culturelles ou civilisationnelles lies au thme du document propos, attestant ainsi de leur intrt pour les pays de langue anglaise. Si cette donne n'a pas t envisage par le candidat, le jury a pu, par ses questions, amener le candidat rpondre des faits lis la culture dun pays anglophone. Il est noter que les candidats qui ont commis une erreur au niveau syntaxique ou phonologique et qui ont apport d'eux-mmes une remdiation, ont t perus comme attentifs leur production et ainsi considrs en voie de perfectibilit. Les candidats qui ont le moins bien russi sont ceux qui, par manque de comptences quant la comprhension, ont commis des contre sens, voire non-sens ou ont restitu des informations parcellaires sans cohrence et qui, par manque doutils langagiers , n'ont pas pu participer vritablement l'change lorsque le jury a pos des questions.

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Synthse des relevs dobservation des membres des jurys :

Points forts relevs chez certains candidats *Candidats capables de bien structurer leur propos, et annonant souvent le plan en amont. *Candidats qui sappuient sur leurs notes crites mais ne font pas une lecture systmatique de leur propos. *Candidats faisant appel leur culture gnrale pour illustrer leur production. *Candidats ayant le souci de rechercher les implications que peut avoir au sein de lcole, le thme abord. *Candidats utilisant des verbes introducteurs : It highlights- It raises the question of- It deals with- It points out- It underlines It stresses the fact that- It lays the stress on *Candidats ayant une bonne matrise du systme verbal. *Candidats ayant un bon bagage lexical leur permettant dapporter des nuances dans leur production. *Candidats qui ont lu le texte en respectant les groupes de souffle, les groupes de sens et ont ainsi donn de lauthenticit leur lecture. *Candidats aux comptences phonologiques respectant les spcificits de la langue anglaise. *Candidats capables de sautocorriger.

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Points faibles relevs chez certains candidats *Candidats restituant le contenu du texte de faon trs parcellaire, rvlant parfois dimportantes erreurs de comprhension. Exemples : - parlant dune personne au fminin alors que les pronoms crits sont : he / his, - ne tenant pas compte de la forme ngative et annonant le contraire de ce qui est indiqu. *Candidats au bagage langagier trs pauvre, entranant de nombreux cueils : - de comprhension des questions (parfois le jury a d reformuler plusieurs fois la question et mme utiliser la gestuelle pour aider au mieux le candidat). -de production : rponses trs minimalistes aux questions, sans aucune prise de recul possible, sans avis vritablement donn. Exemples : Its good Its nice Its interesting Its strict- Mental. *Candidats ne matrisant absolument pas le systme verbal. Exemples : The extract is write. It have take place. Its necessary to denounces the realityThe child are most alone. The teacher to do dont give chocolate. A consequence to child dont move. *Candidats fabriquant de nombreux mots partir du franais. *Candidats ne respectant pas les rgles basiques dintonation de mots, de phrase (souvent, la langue anglaise nest pas du tout marque et toutes les intonations sont ascendantes avec une ultime monte sur la dernire syllabe). *Candidats nayant pas pu rpondre des questions dordre culturel. Exemples : - o est situe la ville de Stockholm, la Roumanie - ce que reprsentent les lettres MP - nayant rien dire sur la Chine

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