THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM

THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM

The Internet is responsible for the wide dissemination all over the world. It is perhaps the greatest invention of the 20th century and gives great power to the users.

The Internet has its own culture, its won way of communicating, no law enforcement, no national boundaries as well as free access to every kind of information known to mankind. It has become familiar to many children all over the world. Some of them use the Internet everyday. Parents need to be in close touch with their kids as they explore the Internet. Moreover, teachers need to help students use it appropriately and safely.

Kids and teenagers need to learn to be responsible for their own behaviour on the Internet with guidance from their families and communities. It’s not at all common for them to know more about the Internet and computers than their parents or teachers. If that’s the case in your home or classroom, don’t despair. You can use this as an opportunity to turn the tables by having your child teach you a thing or two about the Internet. Get your children talk to you about what’s good and what is not really good about the Internet experience.

Just as adults need to help their kids stay safe, they also need to learn not to overreact when they find out a child or a teenager has been surfing inappropriate material or strayed from a rule. Don’t blame or punish your kids if they tell you about an uncomfortable online encounter. Your best strategy is to work with them, so you both can learn from what happened and figure out how to keep it from happening again.

Adolescents and young adults have become the largest segment of the world population with internet access. For that reason, the threat posed by drug-related activities occurring on the Internet is quite serious.

But the Internet has so far served as a very valuable tool to bring mankind closer together and to remove some of the barriers inherent in the “real” world. It has had a great impact on those countries that have adopted its use and provides some kind of measure of the gap between first world and third world countries.

COMPREHENSION

A- ARE THESE SENTENCES TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY:

1- There are legal restrictions to the Internet.

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2- All children learn how to use the Internet from their parents.

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3- The majority of Internet users are teenagers and young adults.

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B- ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS :

1- List two important advantages of the Internet:

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2- What are two risks related to surfing on the Internet?

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3- How can parents protect children from misusing the Internet?

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D- FIND IN THE TEXT WORDS OR EXPRESSIONS WHICH MEAN ALMOST THE SAME AS:

1- In contact (paragraph 2): ……………………………………

2- Change the situation to one’s advantage (paragraph 3) ……………………

3- Menace (paragraph 5) : …………………………………………….

4- Existing as part of (paragraph 6) : ……………………………………

E- WHAT DO THE UNDERLINED WORDS IN THE TEXT REFER TO? ( WORDS IN BOLD TYPE AND ITALICS )

1- Them: (paragraph 3): ………………………………………………

2- They (paragraph 4): ……………………………………………

3- It: (paragraph 4) …………………………………………………

LANGUAGE

A- FILL IN THE BLANKS WITH AN APPROPRIATE PHRASAL VERB FROM THE LIST:

Put up - pick up - make up - look up

1-Don’t believe what she says. She likes to ………………………..stories.

2-It difficult to …………………….with noise in big cities.

B- PUT THE VERBS BETWEEN BRACKETS IN THE CORRECT TENSE:

1- By the end of next month, the committee (take) …………………………a final decision.

2- An important multinational (organize)………………………… a seminar in our country last month.

C- GIVE THE CORRECT FORM OF THE WORDS BETWEEN BRACKETS:

1- The book gives a good (describe)……………………………..of life on a farm.

2- My neighbour is a very (rely)……………………………… person. He’s always ready to give me a hand.

D- REWRITE THE SENTENCES BEGINNING WITH THE WORDS GIVEN:

1- “I didn’t take the test”, Nadia said regretfully.

Nadia wishes………………………………………………………………

2- The children are not well educated because the family is not small.

If ………………………………………………………………………

3- “I didn’t see the film last night”, Naima said.

Naima told Mohamed …………………………………………………

4- We should collect more money to build the mosque.

More money…………………………………………………………

E- COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES WITH THE APPROPRIATE LINKING WORD:

Although - in spite of - because - owing to

1- ……………………..it rained a lot, we enjoyed our holiday.

2- ………………………..all our careful plans, a lot of things went wrong.

3- I went home early ……………………………I wasn’t feeling well.

4- I went to the doctor’s the next day ………………………a terrible headache I had.

F- Fill in the blanks with “make” or “do”:

1- I couldn’t ………….my homework because I was sick.

2- Laila is going to ……………..a party for her birthday.

3- Did you……………..any mistakes in the last test?

4- Karima often ……………the housework before coming to school.

5- I want to ………………..a course in English this summer.

G- FUNCTIONS

You complain to your neighbour about his/her kids who make so much noise at night but he/she refuses.

You: ………………………………………………………….

Your neighbour: ……………………………………………………

WRITING:

"Nowadays an illiterate person is someone who does not know how to use a computer."

Write a letter to the editor of your school magazine giving your opinion and illustrating your argument with examples from real life.