GROUPE SCOLAIRE AMA SCHOOL 2019/2020

LEVEL:3ieme SECOND SEMESTER

STUDENT’S NAME:………………………………………………………………………..
ENGLISH EVALUATION
I. TEXT COMPREHENSION: THE UNHAPPY CHILD

I was only fifteen then and many years were to pass before I knew how I stand my
mind before him. What I should have told him then was that not sent me anywhere.
I was in that school only because I was able to win a scholarship.
It was the same when I went to the university. The trouble with my father was his
endless desire for wives and children or perhaps I should say children and wives.
Right now he has five wives. The youngest, a mere girl whom he married last year
and he is at least sixty-eight, possibly seventy. He gets a small pension which could
be qualified of being enough and adequate for him if he had a small family instead
of his present thirty-five children. Of course, he doesn’t even make any efforts of
providing for his family nowadays. He leaves every wife to his own plans without
help. It’s too bad or the eldest like Mamma, whose children supported her but the
youngest has to find her children’s fees from farming and a pity trading. All the old
man does it’s to buy himself a jar of palm-wine every morning and drinks all day
long.
Chinua Achebe(A man of the people)

A. Choose the best answer: (3marks)

1.The old man drinks all day long means:
a) He drinks from only the morning.
b) He drinks from only the afternoon.
c) He drinks from morning to evening.
2.The writer was at school because:
d) His father paid his school fees.
e) He had no scholarship.
f) He won a subvention.
3.His endless desire for wives and children means:
g) He loves wives and children.
h) He hates wives and children.
i) He loves neither wives nor children.
B. Are these statements true or false? Justify from the text:(3marks)

1. The writer likes his father’s way of life.

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2. The old man doesn’t take care of his wives.
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3. Mamma is the youngest wife of the old man.
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C. VOCABULARY: Match with right the equivalents .(2marks)
a) A matter: 1)trading
b) An allowance 2)providing for
c) To meet the need for: 3)trouble
d) Selling: 4) pension

The effort makes the stronger

 II. COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE:
A. Put the verbs into the right tense:(2marks)
1. If he…………………………….his anger, a terrible fight would have broken up.
(not bottle up).
2. What…………………………………if you were accused of robbery?(to say/you)
3. We won’t start the meeting unless the chairman………………(to come).
4. They……………………many issues two years ago.(to know).

B. Complete the sentences using the right tag. (2marks)

5. Someone has stolen the purse,……………………………………..…?

6. The writer never likes his father’s way of life,………………..…….?

7. The old man drinks all day long,……………………………………...?

8. Don’t open the door,………………………………………………………?

C. Write comparative or superlative: (2marks)

9. I drink as……………………wine as you last week.(many)

10.The mark 03/20 is…………….…………than 08/20.(bad)

11.Dakar has……………………….…..cars than Nigeria.(few)

12.Rice is ………………………………..than millet.(expensive)

III. WRITING: Choose one topic and write about 15 or 20 lines.(5marks)

Topic 1: Today many people say that school is a waste of time.

Do you agree with them? Give your opinion.

Topic2: Write a letter to a friend and tell him/her about your school year.

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The effort makes the stronger