L’ EPREUVE D’ANGLAIS A L’EXAMEN DU BEM
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I) Nature de l’épreuve :
L’épreuve comporte deux parties :
1- la compréhension de l’écrit et le fonctionnement de la langue (cette partie reflète la compétence 2).
2- la production écrite : situation d’intégration basée sur le réinvestissement des connaissances acquises. (compétence 3)
L’épreuve est basée sur un support en relation avec les thèmes traités dans le programme qui peut être :
- un texte de 12 à 15 lignes ou deux textes de 4 à 6 lignes chacun.
- une lettre de type formel ou informel
- un dialogue
- un poème
- une chanson
- un email
- un panneau publicitaire, d’orientation
- coupure de journaux
- information présentée sous forme de diagramme, tableau, programme, série d’instruction, etc.
1ère partie :
A)
B) compréhension de l’écrit
- une ou deux activités de compréhension notées sur 5 points
- une activité portant sur le lexique notée sur 2 points
C) Fonctionnement de la langue : deux activités relatives à la syntaxe (sur 5 points) et une activité sur la prononciation (2 points).
2ème partie :
Dans cette partie l’élève doit réinvestir ses ressources en terme de savoir et de savoir faire (know and know how to do) à travers une production écrite en adéquation avec la situation de communication de départ.
II) Typologie des activités :
Dans la 1ère partie :
A) Compréhension de l’écrit :
A1) questions de compréhension:
- true and false with a quote from the text
- matching questions and answers ( reference and inference
- information transfer
- listing items
- text identification (type of discourse, number of paragraphs, indirect questions, selection of suitable title,tc)
- identify the linking words in the text (cohesive devices)
- discrepancies (similarities and differences)
- auxiliary questions
- identify and match (text with topic sentence, main idea and so on)
- match headings with paragraphs
- MCQ’s with 4 items and 1 distractor
- match sentences with paragraphs
- provide appropriate title
…/…
…/…
A2) Lexis:
- Word recognition ( ability to infer meaning from context, synonyms, antonyms, definitions)
- Read and pick out words related to a meaning (e.g. Feelings, physical description, moral quality, etc.)
- Word families/sets: completing a table with words related to a given set
- Cross the odd word out
- Word association ( mind map, a limited number of words to provide…)
- Cloze passage (4 items are deleted and to be found in the text)
- Mcq’s
B) Fonctionnement de la langue (mastery of language):
B1) syntaxe :
- mcq’s (prépositions, tenses, etc.)
- word order
- tense concord
- give the correct form of the verbs ( in one paragraph)
- transformation (rewrite the passage using 3rd person singular, the simple future, starting like this: “Yesterday, …”, complete the second sentence so that it means the same as the one given
- editing (correct mistakes of grammar, spelling, punctuation, etc.)
- combine sentences using provided connectors (coordination, subordination, reated pronouns, etc.)
- affixation
B2) Pronunciation;
- sound recognition (pronunciation of ed, identification of silent letters, etc.)
- minimal pairs
- word stress
Dans la deuxième partie: (production écrite)
A ce niveau, l’élève mobilise et réinvestit ses ressources en termes de savoirs et de savoir -faire à travers une production écrite (descriptive, narrative, argumentative, dialogue, etc.) en rapport avec la situation de communication de départ.
SAMPLE TEST
Text : from MS4 textbook, p.64 ‘A famous address’.
I:Comprehension: (7 pts)
Activity one: read the text and write ‘true’ or ‘false’. Correct the false statements: (3 pts)
a- Former slaves lived in Georgia.
b- People shouldn’t be judged according to the colour of their skin.
c- M.L. King has got five children.
Activity 2: answer these questions according to the text: (2 pts)
a- Did black and white Americans enjoy the same rights?
b- Is M.L. King optimistic about the future?
Activity three: lexis (2 pts)
3.1) Find in the text words that are closest in meaning to the following: (1 pt)
a- change :………………… b- strong belief: …………..……
3.2) Find in the text words that are opposite in meaning to the following: (1 pt)
a- slavery =/= ……………… b- despair =/= …………………….
- Mastery of language: ( 7 pts)
Activity one: spot and correct the mistakes in the following passage: ( 2 pts )
a long time ago, black Americans are not well-treated. Most of they lived in a miserable conditions.
Activity two: Write the verbs in the correct form (3 pts)
M.L. King (to be) a famous black priest. He (to devote) his life to the Blacks’ cause. He (to assassinate) in 1968.
Activity three: pronunciation (2 pts )
Complete the table below with words from the text according to the pronunciation of the diagraph ‘th’:
…………..…….
……………….. ……………………
……………………
II – Written Expression: ( 6 pts)
You certainly heard about (or saw on tv) the events that took place in the suburbs of Paris and other French towns in 2005 when young immigrants demonstrated in the streets, expressing their anger, setting fire to hundreds of cars, etc
Why did it happen?How did it happen? What was the reaction of the police and the authorities?
Write a report to inform your classmates(you can use the school newspaper,the English corner)
EVALUATION GRID