Anglais

Baccalauréat de l'enseignement général

Madagascar

Session 2010

 

 

TEXT

Traditionally daily household chores are divided according to gender roles. Women take care of the indoor activities and men the 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, pound rice and corn and maintaining the house’s construction and fix things that are broken.

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

QUESTIONS

A – READING COMPREHENSION   (7 pts)

            I – Find in the text                                                                                                                (1 pt)  

1 – The equivalent of “to maintain”.                                                                                        

2 – The opposite of “remaining”                                                                                 

II – Choose the best answer.                                                                                                 (1 pt)               1 – Household chores nowadays are:                                                                                

a) completely bad

b) remaining

c) changing

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

a) feeding poultry

b) chopping firewood

c) cooking for family

III – Say if these following statements are TRUE or FALSE. Justify your answer.                (1 pt) 

            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                                                                                  (2 pts)

                        1 – Most of students leave early in the mornings ……………….. not to arrive late at school.

                        2 – What we realize ………… success of women by working outside the home.          

            V – Answer the following questions                                                                                                 (2 pts)

                        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  (2 pts)

            Fill in each blank with a grammatical item:

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

C – INDIRECT TEST OF SPEAKING  (4 pts)

            I – Make the following sentences more formal                                                                                  (1 pt)

                        1) Why don’t you come out with us at the weekend?                

2)  Bring me a glass of water!

II – Complete the following dialogue                                                                                                 (3 pts)

Susan                       :           Hello, ………………………?

Betty                        :           Fine, thanks.

Susan                       :           ……………………………………

Betty                        :           I’m glad to see you, too.

Susan                       :           Let’s ……………………..

Betty                        :           OK. That’s a good idea.

D – WRITING   (7 pts)

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