ZIANE ACHOUR DJELFA UNIVERSITY, Law & Political Sciences Faculty, Political Sciences

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First English Exam 1 st Year LMD, Duration : 1h30’

Read the following dialogue then answer the following questions:

NBC's Brian Williams spoke with 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama after *
.the Illinois senator gave a speech on Wall Street. Below is a transcript of that interview
?BRIAN WILLIAMS: What was your message at Wall Street today
BARACK OBAMA: I think the core of the message is that we're all in this together. And that for a
lot of years now, the way we thought about our economy that Wall Street is somehow separate from
Main Street. People here have been doing extraordinarily well. We've seen hedge funds; private equity
funds and investment bankers make extraordinary profits. And out in the hinterlands, people are
struggling to fill up the gas tank or save for their child's college education or pay for their own
retirement. Now, with the sub- prime lending crisis, I think Wall Street's jittery. But you also have 2.5
million people who may lose their homes. And there are some structural issues that I think we have to
deal with, to make sure that everybody is seeing a growing economy but also, everybody is prospering
at the same time.
BRIAN WILLIAMS: Let's talk about the campaign which I understand you've been spending some
of your free time doing. what's the surprise? What is it, seven months into it?
BARACK OBAMA: You know, I am number one surprised by the extraordinary interest of the
American people. I think even early on, I mean, we were getting crowds of twenty thousand people in
Austin, Texas, twenty thousand people in Atlanta even back in March and April. There is a hunger for
change in the country. And there's a recognition that we've got a series of decisions that we've got to
make. Not just on the war, but I think about health care, energy, education that we can't put off any
longer. So, that will be a pleasant surprise. Obviously, the intensity of the campaign for so long makes
you worry that at a certain point, people will just say, enough already. And you still have uncertainty
at the calendar which surprises me, because you'd think that four or five months out, we'd know which
states are going when.
BRIAN WILLIAMS: How do you think it is that so many polls show Senator Clinton as the agent
of change?
BARACK OBAMA: Well, you know, the truth is that Senator Clinton I think is the default
candidate for a lot of Democrats. People who have fond memories of Bill Clinton and his
administration. And they still are less familiar with me. They remember me from a speech in 2004.
They have favourable views of me, but I don't think they have a clear sense of what my agenda is.
BRIAN WILLIAMS: What does it say about your effort to-- to shine a bright light on Sen-- Senator
Clinton? Things like her war vote?
BARACK OBAMA: We're not going to spend too much time in this campaign focused on her.
Well, we want to focus on the future and we want to focus on my message of change and what we can
do to provide universal health care for all Americans in a sensible, cost effective way. What we can do
to provide a world class education system that involves both more money and reform of the system.
What we can do to deal with global warming and-- and energy independence. If we're focusing on those
issues, as well as a fundamental shift in foreign politics, then we think we're going to give a very strong
alternative to any of the other candidates in the field.
1- What do the underlined pronouns in the dialogue refer to?
2- Pick from the passage 3 sentences for each of the following tenses (Past –Present – Future )

3- Change the last conversation to indirect speech.

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