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Baccalauréat · Série A · Anglais — 2019
BAC A — Anglais — Sujet type n° 6
Consignes
- Answer all the questions in English.
- Marks are awarded for accuracy of language as well as for content.
Reading comprehension
Text — The library on a bicycle
Adama's library has no walls. It has two wheels, a wooden box bolted over the back of a bicycle, and about ninety books, most of them second-hand.
Three afternoons a week he rides out to the villages around the town. Children hear the bell and come running. They may keep a book for a week; if they lose it, they are not asked to pay, because Adama decided early on that a child who owes money never comes back.
He was a teacher for twenty-two years. When he retired, he did not want to stop, but neither did he want a classroom again. « In a class, » he says, « they read because I tell them to. On the road, they read because they want the next one. »
He has lost eleven books in three years. He does not consider them lost. « Somebody is reading them, » he says. « That was the whole idea. »
a. What does Adama's library consist of?
b. Why does he not ask children to pay for lost books?
a. Adama wanted to go back to teaching in a classroom.
b. He is upset about the books he has lost.
Language use
a. He (teach) ____ for twenty-two years before he retired.
b. The children (wait) ____ for him every Wednesday since he started.
c. If he (ask) ____ them to pay, they would not come back.
a. Children may keep a book for a week. (Begin: A book…)
b. « I do not want a classroom again, » he said. (Report the sentence.)
a. ____ he had retired, he did not want to stop working.
b. He lends books freely ____ children will keep reading.