Enoncé Anglais série A 2003

Baccalauréat de l'enseignement général

Madagascar

Session 2003

anglais – Série : A

TEXT : DEVELOPMENT IN THE THIRD WORLD

For far too many generations, uncounted millions of children have grown and many have died in subhuman poverty, hunger and malnutrition. This was almost accepted as a fact of life, a permanent state of affairs.

Many governments are now engaged in a variety of activities to provide community based services. For example : efforts towards comprehensive programmes for rural developments including food crops and water supply ; improving the position of women ; developing population policies ; attention to the environment and programmes in the field of human settlements. One important component of this new approach is Primary Health Care which, however, is not something new or untried. It is an approach based on the realities of the problems confronting us all and on experiences in many countries.

As far back as the 1960’s, governments in various parts of the world, with the cooperation of UNICEF and W.H.O began retraining traditional midwives and other villagers as part-time health workers. Likewise, several years ago, UNICEF began developing, in conjunction with a number of countries, kits containing the simple medecines required to treat the most common elements of each country. These kits assembled by UNICEF are distributed to village pharmacies and are resplenished through the contributions of the villagers.

QUESTIONS

A - READING COMPREHENSION (7 points)

I – Re-order the following ideas as they appear in the text (1 point)

a) Midwives and villagers were retrained to work for the Primary Health Care.

b) Up to now, the problem of poverty is considered to be normal

c) Medecines are distributed to village pharmacies

d) Programmes for rural development are now undertaken by the government.

II –True or False. Justify. (2 points)

1- Community based services are provided to many governments. (1 point)

2- Primary Health Care has always been the main concerns of many governments. (1 point)

III–Vocabulary (1 point)

1- Find in the text a word meaning « Facing » (cf 2^nd paragraph) (0,5 point)

2- Choose the best meaning of « contributions » (0,5 point)

a- conventions c- corruptions

b- participations d- convictions.

IV– According to the text, which organisations are the governments in cooperation with ?

(1 point)

V – What do you think of the help of the Organisations ? Do you agree on it ? Why or why not ?

(2 points)

B – GRAMMAR IN USE (2 points)

Fill in the gaps with grammatical items. (0,25 x 8)

The christian calendar is full of celebrations and special occasions for rejoicing. Whether they are christians ___(1)___ not, many Malagasy families see them ____(2)_______ good opportunities for eating good food and for spending money _____(3)______ beautiful and brand–new clothes. To myself, the __(4)_____ attractive of them all is perhaps Christmas, because it is _____(5)_____ the time of my birthday and the time _____(6)____ I am allowed to spend one or two weeks with my grandparents at the seaside. As I am their only granchild, my grandparents are always ready to please me and buy anything I want _____(7)_____ they are not very rich. Christmas is also the period at _____(8)_____ I receive a great number of postcards from my pen-friends abroad, and I have quite a good collection of them in my room.

C – INDIRECT TEST OF SPEAKING (4 points)

1 - Express the following statements in a formal way (1 point)

a) Bring me this bottle over there

b) Where’s your boss ? I want to speak to him.

2 - Complete the following dialogue (3 points)

Jack has just arrived from holiday. John wants to know a few things about his friend’s holiday.