GROUPE SCOLAIRE AMA SCHOOL ACADEMIC YEAR 2019/2020

LEVEL CLASS: 1iere SECOND SEMESTER

EVALUATION

I. TEXT COMPREHENSION : BAD THINGS MUST STOP

When I was in office, I had the opportunity to travel round the country. That is where I
saw there is a big difference between people living in cities and the mass people who feed us
living in rural areas.
The water we use to flash our toilet in cities is cleaner than the water they drink in
villages. No clinics, no hospitals, no needles to even sew their clothes. That is when I start to
see the queer relationship between our cities and these places. I have seen too much injustice
in my country when I decided enough is enough…
Energy now goes to every part of the villages. Children can now go to school, children
can learn at night so that my child living in the city would not have an advantage over that child
torn in the village. But as soon as that child in the village is denied and deprived of electricity to
learn at night and good water to drink… my child in the city will always have an advantage over
the ones living in the village. I have been to school were rural students were doing better than
those living in cities.
In Europe, you never seem to know the role that some of your bad business men play.
But some of your bad business men are always doing bribes, bad things in our continent. And
some people suffer. These things must stop.

A. Are the following sentences true or false?: Justify from the text. (1.5pts)
1) The head of state speaking in this text in no longer in office.
2) State four facts mentioned in the text to show the contrast between rural areas and urban
areas (1pt)
B. Answer the following question: (1pt)
3) How are people of rural areas useful to people of cities?

4) Choose the correct answer according to the text: (1pt)

Children living in cities are:
a- more intelligent then children in villages
b- less intelligent than children in villages
c- as intelligent as children in villages
d- not as intelligent as children in villages

5) Do you think it is still normal to continue saying that Europeans are responsible for
conditions in Africa? Justify (1,5pts) ⟹(0,5x2 arguments)

C. VOCABULARY (4pts) ⟹ 0,25x16

6) Find from the text the words or group of words meaning the same as:
1- strange……………………………….., 2- Localities ……………………………………….
3- scikhouse…………………………., 4- countrysides………………………………
7) Derive verbs from: 5- water……………………., 6- shortest ………………………….…….
7- Electricity………………………………., 8- hospital…………………………………..
8) Work out nouns from: 9-born……………,10-denied……………….…., 11-
suffer…………….
9) Find antonyms for: 12- cleaner ≠ …………………., 13- difference ≠ …………………….
10)Make adjectives from: 14- drink……………….., 15- living……………………………….…,
16- respect……………………………..

NO GAIN WITHOUT PAIN

II- LINGUISTIC AND COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE (4pts) ⟹ 0,25x16
11)Turn these sentences into simple future
1) These things must change
2) Children can learn at night
12)Choose the right proposal corresponding to each gap below: If without, unless,
with, were, despite
3) ……...I the President, I would protect all the citizens.
4) ……...Electricity, good water town people seem better than us.
5) ……...The President struggles hard, he can’t satisfy the population
13)Provide with the correct question tag
6) I went to school, ……………………..…?
7) We shall end up with corruption,………?
14)Rephrasing
8) a- As there was no electricity, they would learn only in day time
b- As there was no electricity, they were used to………………………………………………….
9) a- They have no needles so that they can saw their clothes.
b- They have no needles in order……………….......................................................................
10) You never seem to know the role your bad business men play.
b- Never……………………………………………………………………………………………….
11) a- They denied electricity. They are also denied water.
b- Not only…………………………………………………………………………………………….
12) a- People living in villages have lived in misery for a long time
b- It is……………………………………………….......................................................................
13) a- “Air is vital for our survival” the scientist said.
b- The scientist said…………………………………………………………………………………..
15)Turn these sentences into passive voice or active voice.
14) I have seen too much injustice.
15) Bad business men are doing bribes.
16) Poverty can be overcome by good governance.

III- WRITING: (4pts)

You are Boame LIGLIBE. On the 1st March 2020, at Affaires Sociales Dapaong, you
attended a conference. The theme was: The importance of trees forman. The guests’
speaker was Mr Monoka, Assistant of the General Director of Environment. As a delegate of
your school, write a clear report of that conference to your class mates.

TRANSLATION: (3pts)
Translate this passage into good French.
Passage: THE IMPORTANCE OF cleanliness
Cleanliness is the first step to health. You must make cleanliness a habit. Unseen
enemies called “germs” come from an unclean environment and enter our body through our
food, water and air, and through our hands and skin. So, we must keep our environment always
clean.

NO GAIN WITHOUT PAIN