R.C.L.-MENET-FP * Direction des Examens et Concours * Direction des Examens et Concours * R. C. I.- MENET-FP BEPC Coefficient : 1 SESSION 2019 Durée: 2h ZONE : IL LANGUE VIVANTE 1 : ANGLA’ Cette épreuve comporte deux: (02) pages numérotées 1/2 et 2/2. Le candidat est libre de commencer par la composante de son choix. Cependant il devra numéroter ses réponses conformément la numérotation du sujet. PART ONE] READING COMPREHENSION (8 points) Read the text below and do all the activities that follow it. SPORT IN OUR LIFE ‘There are different types of sports in our modern world. Whatever the type you practice, it has a lot of benefits on your life. ‘Sport teaches you how to organise your time. It boosts friendship and builds relationship with your peers. It enables you to create friendship. Sport brings teens from different schools, backgrounds 5 and communities together. Moreover, participating in sports also improves your health in many ways: weight control, efficient functioning of the heart, improved blood circulation, toning of muscles and strengthening of bones are some good examples. It also brings positive energy, discipline, and helps in building self-esteem and mutual respect if you have a good trainer. Generally, people think that being both a student and an athlete is hard, if not impossible. 10 Participating in sports can actually have a positive impact on school. Sport forces you to organise your time so that you can go to practise and come back to finish your homework. The key is finding a ‘balance. If you can learn to organise your time, then you can succeed in both sports and studies. Participating in sports helps build leadership skills. Thanks to sports, you are given the opportunity to meet with people who take part in competitions and to leam from them. Adapted from Palo Alto Medical Foundation 2015 COMPREHENSION CHECK ‘A-Vocabulary check: The words or phrases in column A are from the text. Match each of them with its synonym or definition in column B. One word or phrase in column B is not concemed. Write your answers like in the example. Example: 1-e COLUMN A COLUMN B 1+ Whatever (L.1) a- encourages 2- benefits (L.2) b- friends 3- boosts (L.3) c- abilities 4- peers (L.4) d- the capacity to lead other people 5- Moreover (L.5) e- No matter what 6- strengthening (L.7) £ equilibrium 7- actually (L.10) g- In addition 8- balance (L.12) he giving force 9- leadership skills (L.13) i- really je advantagesB-Comprehension questions: Read the text again and decide if the following statements are true or false, Write “T” for true and “F” for false. Indicate the lines to justify your answers. Write your answers like in the example. Example: 1 -F (L 1) 1->There is a single type of sport in our modem world. 2-+Sports help us to plan our activities. 3Sport is a friendship booster. 4—Practising sport is an important way to keep healthy. 5-+Sport encourages people to respect one another. 6—~It is true to think that you cannot be both a student and an athlete. 7—Sport can positively impact students’ work at school. 8-+Finding a balance between sport and studies is not a good way to succeed. 9—Sports give you an opportunity to meet fans. PART TWO] LANGUAGE IN USE. (6 points) Task 1: The text below is about sport and school education. Put the verbs in brackets in the correct form or tense to complete it and make it meaningful. Write your answers like in the example. Example: 1 - graduated Fans of American football still remember Joe Namath, an American professional football player who 1. (to graduate) from the University of Alabama last weekend. He 2. (to leave) school forty years ago to play for a team called the “Jets”. Now, he is sixty-four years old, but he 3. (0 go) back to school because he 4. (to promise) his mother to finish his school education. Task 2: A trainer is speaking to the players of his schoo! football team. Complete it with the right prepositions from the box below to make it meaningful. One preposition in the box is not concemed. ‘Write your answers like in the example. of—for—by—in—at za “Now you know the importance 1........sport. There are many sports that you can practise, But you are training with me because you are more interested 2.....fo0tball. My aim is to keep you fit and hhealthy 3....... practising sports. This is why I encourage you not to miss physical education classes. ‘You must also be present 4....... all your training sessions.” Example: 1- of [PART THREE] WRITING (6 points) ‘TOPIC: More and more students are not going to physical education classes. In order to sensitize ‘them about the importance of sports, your school English Club chairman asks you to write an article for the English Club magazine. In your text of 10 to 12 lines, -list the different types of sports you know; “give the name of the sport you practice or prefer and say why: -write about the importance of sports in the life of a student. 2/2