CORRIGE d'Anglais
France Métropolitaine - Section S - Juin 2004
I.
COMPRÉHENSION
1.
a) Which of the following titles best suits
the whole passage?
a) Moving in
b) Moving out
c) Making new friends
d) Going to the market
a) Moving in
b) Justify your choice by a quotation. Give
the number of the line.
"We have new
neighbours in the house next door."
(l.40)
2.
What country and city is the passage set in?
The passage is set in England, in London
3.
Which characters do the underlined words
designate?
l.11 “From amid the boxes and bundles emerged
a girl of about her own age ”
a girl = the new neighbours' daughter
her = Poppy's daughter
l.17 “they were not going to reappear
right away”
they
= the new neighbours
l 23 “Yes, there he was”
he = Poppy
l 38 “I wish you wouldn't call me that, Poppy”
Poppy = Poppy, the main character’s father
4.
a) The reader is made to view these scenes
through the eyes of one of the characters.
Which one? Justify your answer by quoting
from the text.
Poppy’s daughter.
(l.16) "…the
street seemed suddenly lifeless without them."
(l.12-13) "It
seemed to her..."
b) What part of the world does that character come from? Is it …
The
Justify your answer by quoting the text. Give the
number of the line.
(‘l.34-35) "the things that
reminded him of the old country : the smell of
borscht and pierogi, thedark paneling hung with
Polish folk art"
(l.25) :”..reading Polish newspaper…”
5.
Where do you think the main character is at
the beginning of the passage?
At the beginning of
the passage the main character could be on her
doorstep or inside her house
6.
a) What is this character’s state of mind?
She is both curious
and frustrated
b) Pick out elements from the text to justify
your answer. Give the numbers of the lines.
(L.17-18) “ She hugged
herself in frustration
( l.18) “she would
tell someone, then, but who?”
(l.21) “leaping from the steps, she ran.”
7. What does this
character decide to do next? What for?
Then, she decides to
go to the café where her father is a regular patron,
in order to talk to him.
8.
How does the man react to this sudden
arrival? What does it reveal about his personality?
Answer in your own words, then justify by a
quotation. Give the number of the line.
The man doesn’t expect to see her there, so he
wonders why she is coming and he asks her if
there is something wrong . It reveals that he is a
worried and concerned man
Quotation:
l.27/28 “What are you
doing here, little one? Is something wrong?”
l.29 “He always
thought something was wrong.”
l.29/30 “she supposed
he worried so because of his time in the war.”
9.
Right or wrong? Justify each time by a
quotation. Give the number of the line.
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a. |
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Poppy has forgotten all about his roots. Wrong |
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b. |
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He was a child when he arrived in |
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c. |
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He wanted to forget the war and its hardships. Right |
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d. |
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His life in |
a) Wrong - l.34-35 “…still he clung to
things that reminded him of the old country”
b)Wrong - l.30-31 “In 1946, newly demobbed, her
father had arrived in
c) Right - l.31”…determined to put the war behind
him and make a life for himself as a jeweler and
silversmith.”
d) Right - ll.33-34 “…he had done well. Better than
some of the other men in the café…”
10.
l. 42. “They’re West Indian," she whispered,
aware of the turning of heads.
Explain why ‘she’ suddenly spoke in a
lower voice. (20 words)
She doesn’t want to be heard. She knows that the
people around her don’t like West Indians so she is
embarrassed
11. l.45.
"Trouble, it will mean trouble." Analyse the
man’s reaction to the news. (20 words)
He could be prejudiced against West Indians or aware
that the newcomers might meet strong hostility from
the neighbours
l. 46. "But
they look very nice—" Using elements taken from
the passage from line 1 to line 16, analyse the
girl’s vision of the newcomers.
She feels them as "exotic", bringing in "colors and fragrances she had
only imagined", a new liveliness in her street. This
is the reason why when they are inside, it seems
"suddenly lifeless".
12.
What
may the last four lines suggest as to her feelings
and intentions? (30 words)
Despite the promise she's just made to her father, she doesn't intend to
stay away from the new neighbors and she may try to
make friends with them as soon as possible
II. EXPRESSION
Choose subject 1 or subject 2.
1.
“He clung to the things that reminded him
of the old country”. Comment on this attitude (300 words)
2.
a) What do you think of today’s growing need
to communicate?
(150 words)
b) l.8 “she
looked up at the house with an expression of dismay.
He smiled and touched her arm …”
The mother is obviously disappointed with her new
environment. Imagine the conversation she has with
her husband. (150 words)
