Classe de 3°

Devoirs et Exercices british Flag

à partir du Manuel APPLE PIE

EVALUATION DE DEBUT D'ANNEE

GRAMMAIRE /40
1- Utilisez la forme correcte du verbe. (/10)
a) Last year we all (to go) to England. We (to have) a fantastic trip.
went had
b) Everyday I (to get up) at seven and (to go) to school by bus.
get up
c) Tomorrow my father (to drive) me there.
will drive/is going to drive/is driving
d) Walter is furious. He (to lose) his wallet.
has lost
e) The Lees' car is brand new. They (just to buy) it.
have just bought
f) Last week for her birthday Walter (to give) Liz a beautiful bunch of flowers. She (to be) delighted.
gave / was
g) Look! Dave (to cross) the street.
is crossing / is going to cross / has just crossed
2) Que vient-il de se passer? (What has just happened?) (/5)
a) Mrs Lee: "Now, switch off the telly, Wilma. This film was good, wasn't it?"
They've just watched a good film
b) Deb: "A wallet! Whose wallet is it? I must take it to the police station."
She has just found a wallet
c) Mrs Lee: "Why did you touch this vase, Wilma? Now you'll have to buy me another one with your pocket money."
She has just broken a vase
d) Paul: "This cake was delicious, Mrs Taylor. Can I have the recipe, please?"
He has just eaten a delicious cake
e) Wilma: "Look at my dress, Mum!"
She has just bought a dress
3) Complétez avec FOR ou SINCE (/10)
a) My parents have been married (1) 1980.
since
b) We have lived in our new house (2) September.
since
c) I haven't seen him (3) a long time.
for
d) The film has been on (4) two years now.
for
e) (5) when have you been here?
since
4) COMPLETEZ CES PHRASES PAR LA NOTION SUGGEREE. PLUSIEURS SOLUTIONS SONT SOUVENT POSSIBLES (/ 8 )
a) You ............ smoke here. (absence de permission)
b) He ............ worry. It'll be all right. (absence d'obligation)
c) We ............ be late. (interdiction)
d) Why ............ you ............ work late tonight? (obligation future)
e) I ............ not ............ come. (impossibilité future)
f)............ I come in? (demande de permission)
g) In 1990, I ............ go to London. (obligation passée)
h) If it rains, they ............ not go for a picnic. (probabilité)
5) COMPLETEZ CES PHRASES PAR UN SEUL MOT SI NECESSAIRE (/3)
a) Is there ............ tea in the box?
b) I love ............ tea.
c) I'd like ............ salt with my salad.
d) There's ............ worm in my apple.
e) How ............ books have you got?
f) How ............ time do you need?
6) Utilisez la forme correcte de l'adjectif. (/4)
a) An elephant is (big) a horse, so it's much (strong).
b) Brazil is one of (good) football teams in the world.
c) A Rolls Royce is much (comfortable) a van, but it's also (expensive).
d) My father says our house is (beautiful) one in the neighbourhood.
e) Mum is (tall) Dad but he is (heavy).
"ESSAY" /10
Traitez entre 50 et100 mots l'un des sujets suivants
ESSAY N° 1
Une famille est sur le point de partir en vacances. La mère et le père se renseignent pour savoir si tout est prêt, et si chacun a bien fait ce qu'il devait faire. (Tout fermer, tout éteindre, charger la voiture, ne rien oublier, etc.) Bien sûr, chaque famille possède son étourdi! Imaginer le dialogue.
ESSAY N¯ 2
Do you like travelling? Where have you been? What have you seen? What was your favourite trip? Give details about it.
COMPREHENSION /10
1- Read the following text very carefully.
A motorist saw two men walking along a lonely country road. They were carrying heavy bags, so he at once informed the police. That morning they had broadcast a message on the radio asking for information which might lead to the arrest of two thieves who had stopped a train and stolen mail bags containing a lot of money. The police soon arrived on the scene. They questioned both men but neither of them could speak English. The men tried hard to resist arrest and kept shouting at the police all the way to the station. When they arrived there, the two men refused to say anything and simply pointed at their bags. The police opened them at once and then realised that they had made a terrible mistake. They were French onion sellers and their bags were full of onions !
Apologizing for their mistake, the police set them free immediately.
2- Say whether the following statements are TRUE or FALSE. You don't have to justify your answers. /5
a. The police wanted to catch two thieves and asked for help.
b. Two men were driving along a road and saw another man.
c. Two men had bags on their backs.
d. A motorist took the two men to a police station.
e. The police came but could not understand what they said.
f. The two men were foreigners.
g. They did not want the police to open their bags.
h. There was a lot of money in their bags.
i. The men were sent to prison.
j. The policemen said they were sorry.
ENGLISH TEST N°1
A- Grammar
 
1- TRANSLATE /10
1- Ils ne sont ni petits ni grands.
2- Tous les deux sont nés en 1976.
3- Selon l'horoscope chinois je suis un coq.
4- Il s'intéresse aux horoscopes chinois, de même que sa soeur.
5- Quand es-tu né(e)?
6- Combien a-t-elle de frères et de soeurs?
7- Elle est née le trois août mille neuf cent trente sept.
8- Ils aiment tous les deux les hamburgers mais détestent le coca.
9- Aucun des deux n'aime les Maths.
10- Il est à la fois égoïste et attirant.
2- COMPLETE WITH A / AN / THE OR Ø. /5
1. Paul writes ..... articles for his school magazine.
2. ..... reading also really interests him.
3. He likes ..... food too.
4. His mother is ..... social worker.
5. Wilma's three friends left London ..... last week.
6. Paul had a 24-hour flight home. ..... Australia is really a long way.
7. Will ..... letters Walter sends to his friends take a long time to arrive?
8. What ..... exciting holiday it was!
9. Poor Wilma had ..... accident helping ..... blind lady to cross the road.
 
3- PRESENT SIMPLE OR PRESENT CONTINUOUS? FILL IN THE BLANKS /5
1. Walter ..... not often ..... his baseball cap any more.
2. ..... he ..... baseball regularly,
3. Mr Kingsley has just finished a new school, and now he ..... a museum.
4. Paul's real mother ..... five minutes away.
5. ..... Paul ..... English literature?
6. ..... he ..... a novel by Charles Dickens at the moment?
7. He says he ..... not ..... so much. He isn't really greedy.
8. Wilma's arm still ..... when the weather is damp.
9. In fact, to day it is cold and wet, so her arm ..... now.
10. Listen to the tape! Deb ..... us a lot of details about herself.
 
B- WRITTEN EXPRESSION /10
4- THE CHINESE HOROSCOPE /8 (100 WORDS)
- According to the Chinese horoscope, what are your qualities, do you agree with it? Why or why not?
C-WRITTEN COMPREHENSION /10
Read the following text very carefully.
In Germany, near the town of Dissan, my father lay hidden in a choir loft, watching a Catholic priest say Mass. The left side of my father's face was paralyzed, his left arm was numb and tingling, and his vision was blurred by his blood. He was studying the priest...By observing the priest's gestures, my father was trying to make a judgment about the man's character. Is this the kind of man who would help me? my father thought. I have killed his people with my bombs, but what does a man of God think of Hitler? What would this man of God do if I asked him to help me? My father had never been in a Catholic church in his entire life. He had never seen a priest.
My father lowered the pistol he was aiming at the priest's vestments and watched as the three women walked to the rail and received Communion. He thought he saw the priest smile at each of the three women but could not be certain. His head ached. He had never been in such pain, never knew such pain was possible. Before the Mass ended my father fainted, his head against the stone banisters, his body lying between the organ and the wall.
After Mass, Father Krauss walked the three women to the front door and spent ten minutes talking with them on the steps of the church... It was the altar boy who noticed the broken window in the priest's bathroom. He did not notice the drops of blood on the floor near the sink. When the altar boy left the church, he told the priest, who was still at the church door, about the broken window.
In the distance the priest could see the white-capped peaks of the Bavarian Alps shining in the sunlight. The Allies had bombed four German cities the night before.
He locked the front door and walked to a side altar where he lit a candle. He said a prayer for peace. The first drop hit his white vestment and stained it a deep red. The next drop landed on his hands folded in prayer. He looked up and a drop of blood hit him on the face.
When my father regained consciousness, he saw the priest standing over him, studying him, trying to come to a decision.
"Buenos dias,senor," my father said to the German priest.
The priest said nothing in return and my father watched the tremor in the priest's hands.
"Bonjour, Monsieur," my father tried again.
"English?" the priest asked.
"American."
"You cannot stay here."
"I need your help. Every German in this part of Krautland is going to be looking for me when they find my plane."
"I cannot help you."
"Why?"
"I am afraid."
"Afraid?" my father said."I've been afraid all night. Are you a Nazi?"
"No, I am a priest. I must report you. I do not wish to, but it would be better. For me. for you. For everybody. They can stop your bleeding."
My father lifted his gun and pointed it at the priest.
Pat Connoy, The Prince of Tides, 1986.
Exercices de compréhension écrite et de civilisation à faire sur cette feuille
Tick off the right statement.
1- Where did the action take place?
a-in the North of Germany.
b-not far from Austria and Switzerland. /2
2- When did it happen?
a-one morning during World War I
b-one morning in 1933.
c-one morning during World War II /2
3- How many characters are there in the scene?
a-three b-four c-six d-seven /2
4- Where in the church was the narrator's father?
a-in the priest's bathroom.
b-high up, on a gallery above the main altar.
c-high up, on a gallery above a side altar.
d-behind the main altar.
e-behind a side altar. /2
5- Give a title to the passage. /2
ENGLISH TEST N°2
GRAMMAR
A- Use the correct form of the verb between brackets. /10
 
Walter (fly) ........................ back to the States a month ago. The trip home (take) ........................ longer than expected. First the Customs Officer (go) ........................ through all the Kingsleys' luggage. Walter (not like) ........................ it because everyone (look) ........................ at them. Then, when they (be) ........................ already on the plane, the pilot (announce) ........................ a technical problem just as everyone (begin) ........................ to relax. While they (wait) ........................ for the plane to be repaired, children (run) ........................ all over the place in the departure lounge.
........................ /10
1. Autrefois l'Empire State Building était le plus haut gratteciel de New-York.
2. Les gens achetaient des chevaux à Times Square mais ils ne le font plus.
3. Autrefois les gens riches habitaient à Harlem.
4. Walter est à New-York, sa famille aussi.
5. Les gens mangeaient quand il a pris la photo.
COMPREHENSION
Read the following text very carefully.
It was a bitterly cold December night, even for Northern Minnesota: the temperature had dropped to 15 degrees below zero and the wind was howling. At 1.30 p.m., Jean Hilliard's car skidded into a ditch. Protected only by a short jacket, she set out to find shelter. After walking along a deserted country road for two miles, she finally collapsed - just a few yards from the safety of a farmhouse. When she was found next morning, recalls Dr. Edgar Sather, "her body was frozen solid like a cordwood stick."
When the 19-year-old woman was brought to Fosston Hospital, doctors and nurses were sure she was dead - until they heard her utter a faint moan. Her heart was beating only six to eight times a minute (a normal rate is 72) and her respiration was only two or three breaths a minute. Her temperature did not even register on a thermometer, indicating that it was below 30 degrees.
Although they held out little hope for survival, Dr. Sather and his colleagues wrapped the patient in moist electric pads1 to produce a graduate thaw. To their astonishment, she regained consciousness that evening. But her body was still frozen so solid that doctors could not puncture her skin to administer intravenous fluids. Late the next afternoon, her temperature slowly began to climb toward a normal level.
"Hand of God." Hilliard remains hospitalized, but she made an almost complete recovery. She takes whirlpool baths to stimulate circulation in her frostbitten legs and feet. "I'm feeling real good," she said last week, "and I have hardly2 any pain." The recovery, according to her doctors, confounds medical experience. Sather says: "The hand of God is in it somewhere."
Newsweek, January 12. 1981
1. pads = couvertures 2. hardly = à peine, presque pasÉ
QUESTIONS
A- Circle the most suitable title for this news item. /2
a- The woman who froze solid.
b- An unfortunate road accident.
c- Report on medical experiment.
 
B- What is the story about? Tick the appropriate answer /2
a- The story of a woman who got frozen and died in hospital.
b- The story of a woman who got frozen but survived.
c- The story of a woman who had a car accident and died.
 
C- Find synonyms in the text for: /3
first §: a- blowing loudly
b- refuge:
second §: c- under:
d- pronounce:
third §: e- surprise:
f- make a hole:
D- Write the underlined figures in letters. /1
 
E- Find the words in the text that mean: /2
a- dégel: b- une plainte:
c-niveau : d- enveloppé:
 
FREE EXPRESSION (10) (150 words)
Describe a place you like very much and that has changed a lot. Say how it used to be when you were young and how it is now.

English Test N°3

1- Translate into English. Expressing the future. /10
a- Mon père va acheter une nouvelle maison ou en louer une.
My father is going to buy or to rent a new house
b- Il se peut que nous fassions du ski dans le Vermont.
We may ski in Vermont
c- La maison est sens dessus-dessous, il devra la ranger.
The house is upside-down. He will have to tidy it.
d- Il va vendre son ordinateur car son père lui en achètera un à Tucson.
He's going to sell his computer because his father will buy him one in Tucson.
e- En Arizona il se peut que Walter voie des coyotes et des Indiens.
In Arizona Walter may see coyotes and Indians
f- Autrefois mes parents habitaient à Tucson et je leur rendais visite à Noël. (Piège)
My parents used to live in Tucson and I visited them for Christmas.
g- Il pourra garder son skateboard.
He'll be able to keep is skateboard.
h- Walter pourra utiliser ses skis en Arizona car il y a des montagnes.
He'll be able to ski because there are mountains
i- Ils sont sur le point de déménager.
They're about to move.
j- Il devra aller à l'école et Jennifer ne sera pas avec lui.
He'll have to go to school and Jennifer won't be with him.
 
2- Say whether the following statements are True or False and justify very briefly. /10
1. Arizona is in the North West of the U.S. False : South West
2. The capital is Tucson. False : Phoenix
3. There aren't many mountains in Arizona. False : The Grand Canyon
4. It never snows in Arizona. False : Walter will ski there
5. If you go to Phoenix you will be able to see polar bears. False : coyotes
6. You can't easily travel to Mexico from Arizona. False : Mexico is not far
7. You won't be able to visit the Grand Canyon. False : Part of it is in Az
8. All the Indians left Arizona a long time ago. False : there are reservations (the Navajos)
9. There's no vegetation at all in the desert. False : There are enormous cacti
10. Arizona has a border with three other states.False : five states Nevada, Utah, California, New Mexico, Colorado
 
3- COMPREHENSION ECRITE /10
Thomas dreamed about television and hunger. In his dream, he sat, all hungry and lonely, in his house and wanted more. He turned on his little black-and-white television to watch white people live. White people owned everything: food, houses, clothes, children.
Television constantly reminded Thomas of all he never owned.
For hours, Thomas searched the television for evidence of Indians, clicked the remote control until his hands ached. Once, on Channel Four he watched three cowboys string a telegraph wire across the Great Plains until confronted by the entire Sioux Nation, all on horseback.
We come in friendship, the cowboys said to the Indians. In Thomas's dream, the Indians argued among themselves, whooped like Indians always do in movies and dreams, waved their bows and arrows wildly. Three Indian warriors dismounted and grabbed hold of the telegraph wire.
We come in friendship, the cowboys said, cranked the generator, and electrocuted the three Indians. Those three Indians danced crazily, unable to release the wire, and the rest of the Sioux Nation rode off in a superstitious panic.
Reservation Blues, Sherman Alexie, 1995.
A- Say whether the following statements are True or False. Justify very briefly. /5
a- Thomas had all he wanted. False
b- He could watch lots of programmes about Indians on television. False
c- In the film that Thomas saw the Indians were very friendly. False
d- The cowboys shot the Indians down. False
e- The other Sioux Indians thought the white men were magicians and attacked them. False
B- Find synonyms in the text for: /1,5
had, possessed : owned shouted : whooped savagely : wildly
C- In the text find the contrary of: /1,5
switch off : turn on never : always to hold : to release
D- Answer the following questions. /2
Name two Plains Indian nations.
The Cheyenne and the Sioux
5- Writing time. (100 to 150 words)
A friend of yours informs you that he is going to move to America.
Imagine the dialogue. /10
Voir ci-dessous le corrigé : "essay" rédigé en temps limité et sans documents par
Côme de Sereys 3°3 (15/01/2000)
 
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