FEDERATION EUROPEENNE DES ECOLES EUROPEAN FEDERATION OF SCHOOLS

Organisation non gouvernementale dote du statut participatif auprs du Conseil de lEurope NGO enjoying participatory status with the Council of Europe

UE B - LANGUE VIVANTE EUROPEENNE

UC B4 - Anglais Ecrit

Corrig

Type dpreuve : QCM et Essai Dure : 1h45min Session : Juin 2011

Fdration Europenne Des Ecoles - European Federation of Schools - Juin 2011 UC B4 Anglais crit - Corrig

UC B4 - ANGLAIS ECRIT

BAREME DE NOTATION

1/ Questionnaire Choix Multiples* 2/ Texte complter* 3/ Essai Total

60 points 90 points 70 points 220 points

* DETAIL DU BAREME DE NOTATION DU QCM ET DU TEXTE A COMPLETER

Bonne rponse Absence de rponse Rponse errone

3 points 0 point -1 point

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1/ Questionnaire choix multiples Texte de comprhension n1

1. The article deals with :

a. b. c. d. what people should do to obtain a comfortable income when retiring. the physical and mental problems due to retirement. investigations carried out on early retirement and consequences to mental and physical health accommodation for French employees after early retirement

2. those who ease their way into retirement means :

a. b. c. d. those who take it easy during retirement those who have planned a gradual retirement scheme those who have been eased into retirement those who find it easy to do

3. It also providesmeagre nest eggs. This suggests that it enables people to :

a. b. c. d. provide additional income for what would otherwise be considered as scanty savings change eggs into comfortable nests change what was initially skimpy nests into comfortable homes provide feathers to furnish insignificant nests

4. Researchers tracked the healthat around the age of 55. This suggests that :
a. b. c. d. researchers ran after employees for 15-years to determine health problems due to early retirement researchers tracked down French employees both before and after retirement researchers studied the attitude of French employees during a 15-year period researchers undertook a 15-year health survey in France that covered the period prior and subsequent to early retirement

5. there was a substantial drop in rates means :

a. b. c. d. rates plummeted rates were shot down rates skyrocketed rates were dropped

6. In this text, to accommodate means :

a. b. c. d. to house to settle for to allow for to take into

7. Others are forced to carry on means :

a. b. c. d. others are obliged to continue others are obliged to take on others are enticed into others have to wear

8. to scrap means :
a. b. c. d. to get rid of to take care of to write off to take on

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9. even where there is no default retirement age means :

a. b. c. d. even where workers are not forced to retire even where there is no faulty retirement age even where there is no age limit even where you have to retire

10. work beyond the age of 65 means :

a. b. c. d. work to the age of 65 retire before the age of 65 continue working after the age of 65 retire when you are 65

Texte de comprhension n2

11. The article deals with :

a. b. c. d. a day in the history of climatic conditions on Earth a trip into Earth's climatic history a day in Earth's climatic history a daily jump into Earth's climatic history

12. The question asked in paragraph one concerns :

a. b. c. d. how the Earth came to be. how the Earth's climate has become what it is today. what the Earth's present state is. what the current climate is like.

13. delve into means :

a. b. c. d. put in investigate pick up dive into

14. What is the property of Epica?

a. b. c. d. a belonging a corps a central part of ice an ice corps

15. Over time means :

a. b. c. d. extra hours over a given period of time extra time several times

16. Temperature and carbon dioxide concentrations can be seen changing in step means :
a. b. c. d. in time harmoniously once in a while musically
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17. The Earth emerged from its most recent ice age means :
a. b. c. d. the Earth rises up from its most recent ice age the Earth woke up from its most recent ice age the Earth rose up from its most recent ice age the Earth wakes up from its most recent ice age

18. such as average temperature and rainfall means :

a. b. c. d. at average temperature and rainfall on average temperature and rainfall like average temperature and rainfall likely average temperature and rainfall

19. What does the temperature curve for the last 100 years show?
a. b. c. d. a period of warming and a period of cooling two distinct periods, one of warming and one of cooling two periods of warming interrupted by a period of cooling two distinct periods of warming in 1940 and a cooling period

20. What does the IPCC conclude?

a. b. c. d. it concludes that it was improbable that 90% of the warming had been caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases it concludes that it was unlikely that the warming had been caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases it concludes that it was more than probable that 10% of the warming was caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases it concludes that it was highly likely that almost 100% of the warming was caused by human emissions of greenhouse gases

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2/ Texte complter 21. a. has been launched b. launches c. will be launched d. is launched 22. a. takes out b. takes away c. takes back d. takes in 23. a. by b. through c. on d. at 24. a. on b. in c. with d. above 25. a. larger b. larger than c. the largest d. largest 26. a. being needed b. needing c. the need for d. need 27. a. at b. as c. as far as d. as for 28. a. tailed b. trialled c. trailled d. trial 29. a. furnished b. furnish c. has furnished d. are furnishing 30. a. flotte b. fleet c. flight d. flock 31. a. with b. without c. withstand d. within 32. a. above b. on c. below d. over 33. a. which b. that c. who d. witch 34. a. at b. in c. on d. about 35. a. dead b. deads c. death d. deaths 36. a. backling b. backing c. tacking d. tackling 37. a. drier b. dire c. dryer d. dry 38. a. that b. those c. these d. this 39. a. from b. on c. in d. for 40. a. that b. on c. thus d. than 41. a. for b. across c. above d. from 42. a. was b. were c. has d. is 43. a. to suit b. to suite c. to do d. to carry 44. a. is b. is proven c. is proved d. prouved 45. a. with b. to c. from d. through 46. a. should open out b. should open up c. should open d. should open onto 47. a. become b. has become c. is becoming d. became
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48. a. has aimed b. aims c. aimed d. was aimed 49. a. build b. builded c. built d. has built 50. a. although b. however c. has d. also

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3/ Essai

Points which should be included in the essay Candidates introduce the retirement scheme in France with its advantages and inconveniences, the public and private system and the current situation The current system is simply too expensive. The state pension is paid for by current taxpayers. And retirees are a two-fold problem for the current workforce. o Firstly, they are living longer and therefore need pensions for longer. o The government says the retirement age hasn't kept pace with longer life expectancy. o When the first contributory state pension was introduced in 1926, only a third of men and 40% of women were expected to live to see their 65th birthday. o Currently, life expectancy for people reaching 60 is 86 for men and 89 for women. o So someone retiring in their 60s could now spend almost a third of their lives in retirement and drawing a state pension. That's unaffordable, especially in such austere economic times. o In addition, the 1960s baby boom means there are more people entering retirement with fewer workers born since to pay for them. A two-fold solution is suggested. Raising the age at which both men and women can draw their state pension is one. Each yearly rise would give the state one year less of pension payments. Staff could then stay in their jobs for as long as they were willing and able to do them, with the state pension waiting for them as a cushion once they decided to retire. At present, 60 is the both the DRA and the age at which men can draw the state pension. The DRA for women is also 60, and their state pension age has just started a gradual budge-up from 60 to match that of men's. The second part is to abolish the Default Retirement Age (DRA) at which workers can be forced to retire. Of course, if you have a private pension you can choose when to draw that, from the age of 55. It is not possible to be completely accurate but if state pension entitlement was postponed by a year for the 690,000 men and women now eligible it it would save 3.5bn a year, and another 3.5bn a year for every extra year. That saving will obviously rise as the number of pensioners taken out of the system expands with the 1960s baby boomers coming up for retirement. The candidates give their own opinion and develop their own plans for their personal retirement scheme Vocabulary + spelling+quality of language Grammar Originality of ideas TOTAL

Attributed marks 10 4

10

10 10 5 5 70

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GRILLE DE NOTATION ESSAI NOM DU CORRECTEUR__________________________________ Prnom du correcteur___________________________________ N de candidat____________ Note attribue Introduction Development Conclusion Vocabulary, spelling, quality of expression Grammar Originality of TOTAL Penalty for too many or too few words (+ or 10% is tolerated) Apprciation gnrale : /10 /30 /10 /10 /5 /5 /70 /-3 Observations obligatoires

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