Devoir de Synthèse 1 Anglais Bac Informatique

A-Read the text and answer the questions below .

An e-learning project which will allow students, teachers and guest speakers in different locations to communicate via “virtual classes” was launched in Edinburgh yesterday.The Scottish minister of education, Cathy Jamieson, and educationalists from across Scotland attended the launch of Flexible learning in the Community, which was initiated one and a half years ago. The launch celebrated the project, which uses technology from Polycom, becoming fully operational. videos were used to give a virtual tour of a secondary school to primary school pupils, and then the primary school pupils had the opportunity to ask their secondary school counterparts about facilities at the school through a video conferencing link.

The city is putting flexible learning to two other main uses: software called Kar2ouche, which allows children to create quick-time movies, has been particularly useful in modern language teaching.”You might get some students who might be a wee bit reluctant about speaking a foreign language in front of the whole class, but they are very happy to make a movie, dub on foreign words, and then show it to the class,” said Iain Stewart.

A virtual learning environment provides web space for pupils and schools, and allows pupils to download assignments at home, and then upload completed work to their teacher’s webspace.Ron Carr, principal officer at the department’s educational multimedia unit, said: “Video conferencing is not new, but it has recently come of age for educational use at the quality needed in education and at a cost education can afford.”Edinburgh’s education department is an early adopter of the national government initiative to develop video conferencing as a mainstream learning medium.Three Edinburgh high schools and their cluster primary schools have deployed Polycom video conferencing systems, and the department hopes to extend video conferencing and other ICT equipment to all of the city’s schools. Jean Francois Raffestin of Polycom EMEA called the launch a “milestone” in the UK’s use of video conferencing in education: “It demonstrates the tremendous value that it can bring to education and the long-term benefits it offers to teachers and students alike. We are particularly pleased to be playing a pivotal role in this pioneering launch.”Work will begin on Spark, part of the government’s National Grid for Learning Scotland initiative to provide a national intranet for Scottish schools and local authorities, later this year.

guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 4 March 2009

2-Read paragraph 2 -3 and correct these false statements.(3)

A- The majority of Workers acknowledge being capable of protecting their kids

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B-. Janet Foulds admits that work load only affects children safety .

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C-Pressure at work affected only children.

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3-Read paragraph 4 and answer the following questions.(2)

A-What do you think Nushra Mansuri’s fears are ?

@….. ………………………………………..………………….…..…………………………………………………………….. B-Who is she putting the blame on ?

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• Read paragraph 5 and complete the gapped (3)

Acording to Nushra Mansuri social work is ……………………. And………………………… While no other profession is needed to keep families

together, and because abuse and neglect has increased by 52%,it’s a priority then for the government to………………………………….. for

the benefit of the social working class.

• Rewrite the following sentence starting as (1)

Many have taken time off to recover, despite admitting that this puts more pressure on colleagues

@Many have taken time off to recover, although……………………………………………………………

• Paraphrase the following statement from paragraph 1 (1)

Social workers do not have time to make well-founded decisions about their safety.

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• Guess what the underlined words in the text mean. Circle the right option.(2) To dread: a – be afraid of            b– to worry              c – to wonder Owing to:                              a – while                      b– because of         c – thanks to
• What do the underlined words in the text refer to? (1)

them ( paragraph 1, line 2) refers to ………………………………..………………………………

Many ( paragraph 2 ,line 2) refers to …………………………………………………………………

• Language(6)

A-Insert 6 words from the box below. (3).

• Writing (12)

1– Use the notes below to write a biography of Simon Bolivar (4)

Name: Simon Bolivar- called the liberator Born: 1783 Caracas, South America

1799: Go to school in France / , speak French and Italian very well 1811: return back to Venezuela / -become General in the army.

1813:go to Jamaica to escape from the Spanish. 1816: return to Venezuela secretly / join the army

1821: Fight against the Spanish troops / win the battle/, liberate Caracas 1830: die at the age of 47- / South Americans still call him the liberator.