Third Term English Examination

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Level: 03 AM

Third Term English Examination

Text:
English Language

More than 360 million people in the world speak English as their first
language. With 252 million people, the United States has the greatest number
of English speakers. The United Kingdom comes second with a population of 57
million, Canada third with 26 million,
Australia fourth with 17 million, Ireland fifth with 3.6 million, New Zealand
sixth 3.4 million, Jamaica seventh with 2.3 million and Trinidad is in the
eighth position with 1.7 million people. To all these English-speaking
countries, English came on the boat of British colonizers. In each of its new
homes, it developed and became a little different from British English .

PART ONE: ( 13 pts )

Section One: Reading
Comprehension
( 06 pts )

A ) Read the text and answer the questions
( 04 Pts)

1.
How many people in the world
have English as their language ?

2.
Which country has the
smallest number of English speakers ?

3.
Which country has the
greatest one ?

4.
How did English come to
these countries ?

B ) Lexis
:
( 02 pts )

1- Find in the text words that are
closest in the meaning to :

largest = …………….. inhabitants = ………………….

2- Find in the text words that are
opposite in the meaning to :

old ≠ ……………… big ≠ ………………

Section Two: Mastery of
Language
( 07 Pts
)

A ) Complete the table.
( 02pts )

Adjective		new	little
Comparative	more great than		less than	more than
Superlative	the greatest	the newest		the most

B ) Look at the example and do the same.
( 02 pts )

Example : Annaba / beautiful / Algiers
------- Annaba is as beautiful as Algiers.

1.
Egypt / large / Algeria / not / .

2.
London / nice / Paris / .

C ) Ask questions on the underlined words.
( 03 pts )

1.
Oran is situated in the north west of Algeria.

2.
Algerian people speak French
well.

3.
Spoken English became a little different from the written one.

PART TWO: Integration
Phase (written expression)
( 07 Pts )

Use the following notes and write a short
paragraph. ( less than ten lines )

about your country Algeria

· Bordering countries. ( Morocco, Mali, … )

· Area ( …………… Km² )

· Population ( ……………… people )

· Weather . ( hot / cold / rainy / … )

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GOOD LUCK

Honour Member

A nice paper! Thank you so much, madam