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MINISTERE DE L'EDUCATION
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SOMMAIRE
1. ENSEIGNEMENT MOYEN ET SECONDAIRE GENERAL
1. Introduction
2. Finalités et objectifs
3. Méthodologie
4. Evaluation des connaissances et aptitudes des élèves
5. La formation des maîtres
6. Contenus pour le cycle moyen
a. A - 6è
b. B - 5è
c. C - 4è et 3è
7. Contenus pour le cycle secondaire
a. A - Préambule
b. B - 2è, 1ère et Tle
1. Finalités
2. Objectifs
3. Contenus
4. Méthodologie
5. Evaluation
3. APPENDICES
1. A Principles for teaching and learning English in Sénégal
2. B Support documentation
a. Glossary
b. Guidelines
c. Lesson exemplars
d. Test exemplars
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AU PROFESSEUR D'ANGLAIS
Les programmes ci-après, proposés pour les différents niveaux des lycées,
collèges et établissements d'enseignement général, technique ou professionnel ont été
conçus pour répondre aux préoccupations des Etats Généraux de l'Education et de la
Formation, EGEF, notamment le souci d'ancrer l'enseignement dans les réalités
sénégalaises.
Ils ont aussi été élaborés suivant les principes d'une approche communicative
d'enseignement de l'anglais. Pour qu'ils soient exploités judicieusement, les en-
seignants d'anglais sont invités à les discuter et échanger des idées au sein des cellules
pédagogiques de leur établissement scolaire ou localité. Leurs remarques et
suggestions sont encouragées; elles permettront d'apporter les correctifs qui pourraient
se faire sentir pendant la période de mise œuvre des programmes.
L'attention des professeurs est attirée sur le caractère cyclique des fonctions
contenues dans ces programmes. Ainsi une même fonction peut être abordée à des
niveaux différents, en 6è et 3è par exemple; seules les structures grammaticales
servant à la réaliser peuvent, compte tenu de leur complexité, être traitées à des
niveaux bien déterminés.
L'objectif visé ici est de donner une certaine flexibilité aux programmes et par
conséquent plus d'initiatives au professeur. Ainsi celui-ci pourra bien tirer ses supports
pédagogiques de diverses sources (manuels, coupures de journaux, etc.) et les
exploiter en fonction des besoins des apprenants tout en restant dans le cadre des
programmes.
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PROGRAMMES DE LANGUE VIVANTE ANGLAIS
ENSEIGNEMENT MOYEN ET SECONDAIRE GENERAL
1-1 INTRODUCTION
1.2.1 Finalités
- aider à développer chez les élèves, des qualités intellectuelles et morales telles
que la créativité, l'esprit de coopération, la persévérance et le respect mutuel,
pour contribuer ainsi à la formation et à l'enrichissement de leur personnalité et
à leur épanouissement socioprofessionnel;
- répondre aux besoins et aux aspirations de l'individu ainsi qu'aux buts pour-
suivis par la société et la politique éducative du pays;
- aider les jeunes sénégalais à acquérir une certaine maîtrise de la langue anglaise
qui leur permettra de faire face éventuellement aux exigences de la vie
moderne;
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- faire acquérir à l'élève un niveau qui lui permet de communiquer dans la langue
étrangère et de satisfaire les exigences et normes des examens et concours
nationaux et internationaux;
1.2.2 Objectifs
1.2.2.1 Enseignement moyen
Les objectifs à ce niveau peuvent se résumer comme suit: à la fin de ce
cycle les élèves auront :
- acquis des connaissances linguistiques et aptitudes communicatives de base: (la
qualité des performances exigibles à ce niveau devant être raisonnable);
- acquis des aptitudes à lire et à comprendre des textes écrits dans un anglais simple;
- acquis des aptitudes à rédiger des phrases, des paragraphes, et des textes de formats
divers ;
- acquis une compréhension orale acceptable aussi bien en classe que dans la vie de
tous les jours;
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- acquis des aptitudes en compréhension orale et écrite d'une part et en expression
orale et écrite d'autre part;
- été préparés à :
• saisir les idées et les sentiments implicites développés dans un
texte;
• juger les techniques d'expression d'un auteur;
• prendre goût et s'enrichir à la lecture d'un texte.
• etc.
- développé des aptitudes à écrire à des fins diverses et pour différents publics dans
une forme ou un style appropriés pour:
- acquis des aptitudes à s'exprimer oralement dans des situations et à des fins
variées, et dans une forme et un style appropriés pour:
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• décrire des expériences vécues, des sentiments et des réactions
personnels.
• Etc.
- préparés à prendre en charge leur propre apprentissage ;
1.3.1 Méthodologie
Selon le cas, le maître proposera d'abord aux élèves des activités dirigées où
l'expression linguistique requise sera nettement prévisible, et passera ensuite à des
modes de production linguistique plus libres qui donneront lieu à des échanges entre
les élèves et le maître, d'une part, et entre les élèves eux-mêmes, d'autre part, dans un
but ou sur un sujet déterminés. Ainsi placé dans un contexte approprié, l'élève
apprendra à s'exprimer convenablement en anglais.
L'implication des élèves dans des activités variées les incitera à apprendre
l'anglais avec davantage d'intérêt et de motivation. De ce fait le maître aura également
à jouer un rôle d'assistance, d'encadrement et d'animation.
Tout matériel didactique utilisé doit servir à réaliser les objectifs visés.
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1-4 EVALUATION DES CONNAISSANCES ET APTITUDES DES ELEVES
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Supérieure, les Inspecteurs de spécialité et naturellement, l'Inspection Générale
d'anglais pour leur assurer le maximum d'efficacité et de cohésion.
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1 – 6 CONTENU POUR LE CYCLE MOYEN
A – 6 ème
BY THE END OF 6è, PUPILS WILL HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED TO THE FOLLOWING IN TERMS OF THEMES, SKILLS, FUNCTIONS / NOTIONS,
GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURES AND ELEMENTS OF PHONOLOGY
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21. make, accept, decline offers then, after that, finally, etc.
22. make requests 18. future to be going (to express
23. give reasons intention & plans)
24. talk about the weather 19. impersonal it (it’s hot / cold,
(simple terms only.) etc.)
25. express feelings (sad, 20. do as pro-verb
happy) 21. selected uncountable
26. give and carry out 22. quantifiers: some, any, all,
instructions every, everybody, everything
23. linking words: and, so, but,
because
24. punctuation
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B – 5 ème
BY THE END OF 5È, PUPILS WILL HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED TO THE FOLLOWING IN TERMS OF THEMES, SKILLS, FUNCTIONS / NOTIONS,
GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURES AND ELEMENTS OF PHONOLOGY
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17. talk about past actions have +
18. talk about future actions 18. past participle with just,
and intentions already, yet, for, since,
19. introduce themselves and ever, never
other people 19. prepositions (after,
20. ask and give names before, without) + noun
21. greet people / verb + ING
formally/informally 20. comparatives and
22. locate things and people superlatives of
23. ask for and give directions adjectives and adverbs
24. use numbers up to 10,000 21. simple past tense with
25. use ordinals 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. ago and other time
26. give time, date, age markers
27. express family 22. present continuous for
relationships future actions
28. express likes and dislikes 23. possessive pronouns
29. go shopping 24. want + object + pronoun
30. make requests + to INF (I want
31. describe people, eg. body, him/:her to……)
clothes 25. should/shouldn’t
32. describe things and places 26. past continuous
(weather/seasons in simple 27. verbs of perception
terms only) 28. if clauses first
33. request assistance conditional
34. make comparisons 29. relative clauses with who
35. make and accept apologies & that
36. make, accept, decline 30. reported speech
offers 31. indirect commands
37. express feelings (sad,
happy, etc.)
38. give and carry out
instructions
39. describe past activities
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B – 4 ème & 3ème
PUPILS WILL HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED TO THE FOLLOWING IN TERMS OF TOPICS/ THEMES, SKILLS, FUNCTIONS / NOTIONS,
GRAMMATICAL STRUCTURES AND ELEMENTS OF PHONOLOGY
4è & 3è unless otherwise specified
TOPICS SKILLS FUNCTIONS/NOTIONS GRAMMAR PHONOLOGY
Pupils will learn these Pupils will be introduced to
grammar points these aspects of pronunciation
1) PERSONAL 1/ Listening and Pupils will learn to 1. all verb tenses 1/ Discriminating sounds in
IDENTIFICATION Speaking 2. passive voice ( all tenses) a) connected speech :
a) Name, first name, surname, 1. Socialize 3. modals b) Vowels, consonants,
terms of address, address, Pupils will be able to a) make introductions 4. I wish you, 4è , I wish I were diphthongs
nationality, country of origin, a) Listen to and b) greet people 5. declarative sentences, using c) Strong and weak forms
telephone number, date and understand formally/informally verbs of saying (e.g., to say) d) Neutralization of weak
place of birth, age, sex, comparatively c) use expressions of welcome thinking (e.g., I think...) forms
religion, ethnic group, likes, more complex and leave taking 6. complement clauses,
dislikes, character, d) attract someone's attention 7. indirect speech 2/ Articulating sounds in isolate
everyday English
temperament, disposition e) interrupt another speaker 8. adverbs words forms:
b) Communicate in politely, ask someone to 9. interrogative sentences (yes-no, a) Long and short vowels
b) Family: relationships, formal and repeat something WH, declarative sentences + b) Consonants
profession, occupation, informal everyday f) change an embarrassing question intonation,) c) Consonant clusters
members of the family situations with subject (3è) 10. question tags: You aren't afraid, d) Diphthongs
other speakers of g) congratulate are you?
c) House and Home: Types of 3/ Discriminating sounds in
English h) express wishes (3è) 11. negative sentences
accommodation, rooms, connected speech :
12. comparatives: such as, same as,
furniture, bedclothes, rent, 2. Impart and Seek Factual a) Strong and weak forms
like, similar to, unlike, likewise.
services, amenities, region, 2/ Reading: Information b) Neutralization of weak
13. the + comparative + the +
flora and fauna, food and a) describe places, people, forms
read and understand comparative (3è)
drinks, relations, visits to size, daily routines, c) Reduction of unstressed
comparatively simple 14. Comparing two elements : the
d) families /friends/strangers physical characteristics of vowels
authentic texts taller of the two, the former the
things, impressions latter, (3è) irregular comparatives d) Modification of sound
2) CITY LIFE
b) ask and talk about the past 15. superlatives through :
a) Public notices 3/ Writing:
c) make arrangements 16. coordinating conjunctions e) Assimilation
b) Places: Government Write longer
d) explain, define, illustrate, 17. conjunctive adverbs f) Elision
buildings, squares, compositions
classify, compare, contrast, 18. use of gerunds g) Liaison
entertainment and places of (narrative, descriptive,
make conditions, give 19. Would rather, had better
entertainment: cinemas, argumentative) in
reasons and purposes, (3è) 20. To be going to and will future
stadiums, theaters, etc. various formats (letters, 4/ Articulating sound in
e) make assumptions, draw 21. Used to, would
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c) Public services: post-office, stories, articles, essays, conclusions 22. Make + NP + ifn, get + NP + to connected speech:
police station, petrol station, etc.) f) make similarities & inf, a) Strong and weak forms
museums, galleries, differences (3è) 23. declarative sentences with you as b) Neutralization of weak
exhibitions, harbor, book - subject (emphatic imperative) forms
shops, bus station, railway 3. Express and Find 24. imperatives c) Reduction of unstressed
station, hotels, restaurants, Intellectual 25. nouns – count and non-count vowels
hospitals, markets, shops, a) argument (Exchange of 26. pronoun reference d) Modification of sounds
banks, supermarkets, information and views): 27. prepositions
asking for/giving and 5/ Discriminating Stress
d) Environmental problems: responding to views and Patterns within words
pollution, urbanization information
(slums, slum clearance b) agreement 6/ Articulating stress pattern
schemes, delinquency, c) disagreement within words
transportation, prostitution,
d) denial
etc.) 7/ Manipulating variation in
e) permission/prohibition
f) concession stress in connected speech
3) VILLAGE LIFE
g) ability/inability
a) Crafts, occupations h) capability/incapability 8/ Recognizing the use of stress
b) Cattle breeding and crops i) probability/certainty in connected speech for
c) Fauna and flora j) expressing/inquiring about indicating information units
d) Fishing possibility/impossibility
e) Environmental problems: k) expressing/inquiring about 9/ Recognizing the use of stress
floods, drought, obligation and necessity in connected speech for
desertification, soil erosion, indicating emphasis
soil preservation, irrigation 4. Express and Find Out
f) Weather, seasons, climate Emotional 10/ Producing Intonation
g) Migration, rural exodus a) Express and Inquire about: Patterns
h) Free time b) likes and dislikes
c) pleasure/ displeasure a) Rising tone with
4) TRAVEL AND d) satisfaction/dissatisfaction declarative/moodless
EXPLORATION e) hope, fear or worry, clauses
preference b) Rising tone with Imperative
a) Communications f) gratitude, sympathy, want, clauses
b) Mass-media desire c) Falling tone with Yes/No
c) Stories of imagination g) disappointment, surprise, interrogative clauses
d) Tourism: holiday camps, hostility, reassurance,
national sites, transportation willingness, intention, 11/ Expressing/Interpreting
h) past experience attitudinal meaning through :
5) CAREERS AND a) Pitch height
EMPLOYMENT 5. Express and Find out Moral b) Pitch range
Attitudes c) Pause
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a) Crafts, jobs, trades, d) Tempo
professions, occupations, a) apologizing
means of finding b) granting/asking for
employment, behavior forgiveness
patterns in various situations c) expressing approval/
b) Interviews, letter writing d) disapproval
c) Reading/writing ads e) expressing appreciation,
d) interpreting charts, diagrams, indifference, regret,
tables, graphs, preference
b) Modern Education
1. School system
2. Subjects
3. Qualifications
4. Job opportunities
5. Educational Problems
8) HEALTH
a) Malaria
b) AIDS
c) TB
d) Cholera
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This listing of what should be covered in each year is not intended to be constricting for teachers. There may be aspects omitted that thoughtful teachers
want to include in classes. If in doubt, please check with your CP/CPI or the Bureau d’Anglais. In addition, please inform the Bureau d’Anglais with
suggestions. Our belief is that language is living; therefore it is necessary to continuously update this document.
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PROGRAMME DU SECOND CYCLE
Préambule
Mais pour ce qui est du contenu, il conviendra de tenir compte des différences
entre séries (littéraires, scientifiques, techniques et tertiaires) en évitant une
spécialisation excessive.
Les élèves devront acquérir les connaissances et aptitudes nécessaires pour les
études supérieurs.
Le programme comportera:
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BY THE END OF SECONDE CLASS, ALL STREAMS, THE FOLLOWING HAVE BEEN PRACTICED, REVIEWED AND REINFORCED
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TOPICS SKILLS FUNCTIONS/ GRAMMAR PHONOLOGY
Teachers will cover at least 2 NOTIONS
(two) subtopics under each of
the headings in bold
1. Personal Identification 1) Listening: 1. socialising; introducing; 1. Pronouns; 1/ Discriminating sounds in
a. listening for gist greeting people formally 2. adjectives; adverbs; a. connected speech : BY THE END
a) Family ties: relationships in b. listening for details and informally; seeking/ quantifiers; adverbs of b. vowels, consonants, OF PREMIERE
the family c. understanding explicit giving personal frequency; comparisons diphthongs
b) Relationships with others CLASS, THE
information information; 3. relative clauses c. strong and weak forms
c) Club membership d. understanding meaning 2. giving opinion; 4. verb tenses d. neutralization of weak FOLLOWING
d) Political and social views through intonation and stress persuading; expressing 5. prepositions of time; time forms SHOULD HAVE
e) Love and marriage: e. identifying the main point likes and dislikes; etc. reference; prepositions of BEEN
Interracial and inter- or important information in a 3. making plans place & movement/direction 2/ Articulating sounds in isolate
PRACTICED,
religious issues, etc. piece of discourse 4. arguing 6. nouns: singular and plural; words forms:
a. Long and short vowels REVIEWED,
f. identifying text types: 5. agreeing disagreeing compounds
2. Education (narrative, descriptive, 6. congratulating 7. articles; b. Consonants AND
argumentative etc.) 7. comparing 8. phrasal verbs c. Consonant clusters REINFORCED
a) Traditional education d. Diphthongs
b) Schooling (system, g. recognizing discourse 8. expressing likes and 9. Modals
perspectives) indicators and sequencing dislikes 10. Declarative sentences Teachers will
9. apologising and accepting 3/ Discriminating sounds in deal with the
c) Information & communication
d) Changing values 2) Speaking: apologies connected speech : topics
e) The heritage of the past a. expressing explicit 10. expressing conditions a. Strong and weak forms relevant to
f) Civics information 11. expressing wishes b. Neutralization of weak their streams
g) Peace, etc. b. expressing meaning 12. giving directions / forms (L = literary;
through intonation and stress instructions c. Reduction of unstressed S=
3. Social Roles vowels
c. producing various text 13. placing orders Scientific),
types (narrative, descriptive, 14. making/accepting & d. Modification of sound but they are
a) Lifestyles
b) Youth argumentative, etc.) declining offers / through: free to teach
c) Women (gender issues) d. using discourse markers invitations - Assimilation any other
d) Social classes, etc. and sequencing 15. inquiring about prices - Elision topic if time
e. initiating, maintaining, 16. suggesting. - Liaison allows.
4. City and Village Life and terminating discourse 17. expressing obligation
4/ Articulating sound in connected Teachers in
a) Types of accommodation f. reformulating information 18. threatening ‘’L’’ will
and paraphrasing to avoid 19. inquiring speech:
b) Public services a. Strong and weak forms cover two
c) Consumer services : stores, repetition 20. requesting subtopics
21. inviting b. Neutralization of weak
banks, etc. under each
d) Food and drinks 3) Reading: 22. agreeing /disagreeing, etc. forms
c. Reduction of unstressed heading in
e) Religions a. skimming to obtain the bold. Teachers
f) Mobility and its effects on gist of the text vowels
society: migration, rural d. Modification of sounds in ‘’S’’ will
b. scanning to locate cover at least
exodus
specific information one subtopic
g) Places of recreational 5/ Discriminating Stress Patterns
c. understanding explicit under each
interest: parks, libraries, within words
information heading in
cinemas, etc
d. identifying the main bold
h) Demography: population 6/ Articulating stress pattern
point or important information
growth andTOPICS
population SKILLS FUNCTIONS/ GRAMMAR
within words PHONOLOGY
in a text
control, environmental
e. identifying text types:
issues 7/ Manipulating variation in stress
(narrative, descriptive, 20
i) Culture shock in connected speech
argumentative etc.)
f. understanding text
5. Delinquency, Crime and
organisation 8/ Recognizing the use of stress in
NOTIONS
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d. Moral values : ( tolerance, and paraphrase to avoid with
solidarity, charity) repetition Imperative
e. Etc. k. relaying information clauses
o Directly (commentary c. Falling tone
7. Science and Technology /description concurrent with with Yes/No
(S) action); interrogative
a. Inventions and Discoveries o Indirectly (reporting) clauses
b. ICT
c. Science and Information 1. Study skills 11/ Expressing /
d. Information and ethics, etc. a. doing project work : Interpreting
o Organising
attitudinal meaning
8. Information and o Presenting
through:
Communication o Evaluating
- Pitch height
(S & L) b. taking notes while reading - Pitch range
a. Communication facilities : and listening - Pause
telephone, mail, newspapers, c. using reference materials - Tempo
radio, TV, etc. (dictionaries, computers,
libraries, etc.)
b. Information and
Communication Technologies
c. Explosion of information
d. Information and ethics:
sensitive information, taboos
e. Advertisements
f. The right to information
9 . Education
(L)
a. Traditional education
b. Schooling (systems,
perspectives)
c. Changing values
d. The heritage of the past
e. Civics
f. Peace
’TERMINALE’’ BEING AN EXAM CLASS AND THE LAST OF SECONDARY SCHOOL, TEACHERS WILL REVISIT THE TOPICS, SKILLS, FUNCTIONS & NOTIONS , STRUCTURES, AND ASPECTS OF PHONOLOGY STUDIED IN ‘’SECONE & PREMIERE’’ . SPECIAL
EMPHASIS WILL BE LAID ON TEST TAKING SKILLS RELATED TO THE WRITTEN AND ORAL EXAM
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Teachers will deal with the topics relevant to their streams(L = literary ; S = Scientific). But they are free to teach any other topic if time allows.
Teachers in ‘’L’’ will cover two subtopics under each heading in bold. Teachers in ‘’S’’ will cover at least one subtopic under each heading in bold
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f. The ups and downs of the g. interpreting or comparing clarifications
economy diagrams/tables/graphs 30. Expressing possibility / 4. Nouns
g. Poverty h. Reformulating information and probability 4/ Articulating sound in
paraphrase to avoid repetition a. Mass and count connected speech:
h. development (Sustainable, 31. Describing process nouns
h. Relaying information a. Strong and
etc.) o Directly (commentary
32. Reporting factual b. Personal pronouns
i. Starvation information weak forms
/description concurrent with c. Possessives b. Neutralizat
j. Agriculture action) ; 33. Giving instructions
k. Industry 34. Making offers ion of
o Indirectly (reporting) 5. Articles
l. Mining 35. Making plans weak forms
3. Reading
m. Technology a. Skimming to obtain the gist / 36. arguing a. Indefinite c. Reduction
n. Etc. general impression of the text 37. agreeing disagreeing b. Definite of
b. Scanning to locate specific 38. congratulating unstressed
4. Health, Welfare & Environment information 39. comparing 6. adverbs vowels
(S & L) c. Understanding /expressing
40. expressing likes and a. word order d. Modificati
a. Physical and mental explicit information b. Position on of
d. Identifying the main point or dislikes
disabilities 41. apologising 7. relative clauses sounds
important information in a piece
b. Pollution of discourse 42. accepting apologies
c. Hygiene and cleanliness 8. Prefixes and suffixes; 5/ Discriminating Stress
e. Identifying text types (narrative, Patterns within words
d. Ailments and accidents descriptive, argumentative etc.)
e. Insurance f. Understanding text organisation
f. Keeping fit g. Recognizing/ using discourse 6/ Articulating stress
g. Medicine indicators: sequencing pattern within words
h. Diseases h. Understanding/using graphic
i. The progress of medicine : presentation, tables, cross- 7/ Manipulating
genetics, cloning, transplants, referencing, etc. variation in stress in
i. organising information presented connected speech
euthanasia
in diagrammatic display, into
j. Etc. speech/writing
j. interpreting or comparing 8/ Recognizing the use
5. Events and Changes (L) diagrams/tables/graphs of stress in connected
a. Colonial time and the k. transcoding information in speech for indicating
struggle for Independence speech/writing to diagrammatic information units
display
b. English in the World l. Evaluating a piece of discourse
9/ Recognizing the use
c. War and violence (register, style, tone, etc.)
4. Writing of stress in connected
d. International relationships speech for indicating
a. expressing explicit information
e. Administration emphasis
b. producing various text types
f. Politics and government : (narrative, descriptive, 11/ Producing
politics, elections, freedom & argumentative, etc.) Intonation Patterns
basic changes c. Using salient relevant points to
g. Contemporary Africa make a summary a. Rising tone with
h. Building the society d. recognizing/ using discourse declarative/moo
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i. The march of progress : indicators :: sequencing dless clauses
a. Looking to the e. Organising information in b. Rising tone with
future expository discourse (especially Imperative
presentation of report,
b. Building a better clauses
expounding an argument,
society evaluating evidence)
c. Falling tone
j. Etc. f. Understanding/using graphic with Yes/No
presentation, tables, cross- interrogative
6. Cultural Heritage referencing, etc. clauses
(L) g. organising information presented
a. Religions in diagrammatic display, into 12/ Expressing /
b. Religious events speech/writing Interpreting
c. Social events, customs, h. interpreting or comparing
ceremonies and festivals diagrams/tables/graphs attitudinal meaning
d. Moral values : ( tolerance, i. Reformulating information and through:
paraphrase to avoid repetition
solidarity, charity) -Pitch height
j. Relaying information
e. Etc. o Directly (commentary
-Pitch range
/description concurrent with -Pause
7. Science and Technology action); -Tempo
(S) o Indirectly (reporting)
a. Inventions and Discoveries 5. Study skills and other
b. ICT a. Doing project work :
c. Science and Information o Organising
d. Information and ethics, etc. o Presenting
8. Information and
Communication
(S & L)
a. Communication facilities :
telephone, mail, newspapers,
radio, TV, etc.
b. Information and
Communication
Technologies
c. Explosion of information
d. Information and ethics:
sensitive information, taboos
e. Advertisements
f. The right to information
g. Etc.
9. Education
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(L)
a. Traditional Education
b. Schooling (systems,
perspectives)
c. Changing values
d. The heritage of the Past
e. Civics
f. Peace
g. Etc.
This listing of what should be covered in each year is not intended to be constricting for teachers. There may be aspects omitted that thoughtful teachers
want to include with classes. If in doubt, please check with your CP/CPI or the Bureau d’Anglais. Please also inform the Bureau d’Anglais with
suggestions. Our belief is that language is living; therefore, it is necessary to continuously update this document.
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du 2. ENSEIGNEMENT TECHNIQUE ET PROFESSIONNEL
2-1 FINALITES
Dans l'élaboration d'un profil diplômé des séries techniques industrielles et commerciales,
il faut prendre en considération deux catégories de diplômés:
Il faudrait donc un profil général qui cherche à satisfaire ces deux catégories dans des
situations où l’apprenant peut être amené à utiliser l’anglais pour :
- gérer le personnel ;
2.2.1 Former des apprenants ayant une maîtrise acceptable de l'anglais parlé et surtout écrit
et capables de communiquer avec tout utilisateur de cette langue.
2.2.2 Former des apprenants capables d'utiliser l'anglais parlé et surtout écrit, dans leur vie
professionnelle.
2.2.3 Former des apprenants capables de se servir de l'anglais parlé et écrit, dans le cadre de
leurs études ou de leurs travaux de recherche en général.
- exprimer ses points de vue et sentiments en anglais, par écrit ou oralement, et comprendre
son interlocuteur dans cette même langue et en dehors de toute motivation
professionnelle;
- faire une description d’un objet, d’une pièce ou d'un outil permettant leur identification ;
- donner des instructions assez claires, oralement ou par écrit, pour l’exécution d’une
tâche ;
- produire des arguments solides pour faire valoir ses points de vue sur des questions
d'ordre technique et professionnel,
- faire des présentations orales ou écrites pour rendre compte des tâches effectuées ;
- faire accompagner un texte qu'il aura rédigé de ce même type de représentation non
linéaire ;
Dans la classe, le professeur veillera à fournir à l’apprenant des types d'activités lui
permettant pratiquer avec ses pairs les savoir-faire et savoir être ci-dessus mentionnés.
Ainsi, les élèves seront entraînés à la pratique de techniques variées de lecture telles que:
i. Scanning
ii. Skimming
iii. Speed reading
iv. Lecture en contexte
v. Prédiction
vi. Référence contextuelle
vii. Présentation de la structure de l'information dans le texte (utilisation de
diagrammes appropriés au type de texte exploité)
viii. Repérage des relations structurelles dans le texte (les problèmes de
cohésion et de cohérence)
ix. Application au texte d'une gamme variée d ‘activités faisant appel à la
mémoire, la translation, la réorganisation, le transfert, l'interprétation,
l'application, l'analyse, la synthèse, l’évaluation.
En plus de ces activités d’exploitation de texte, inclure des activités orales telles que :
Simulation
Role play
Exposé / Présentation
Discussion
Etc.
2-3 CONTENUS
Les tableaux ci-dessous présentent de manière non exhaustive les savoir faire, fonctions/notions,
structures grammaticales, thèmes à couvrir et les types d’activités à initier en classe.
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A – Secondes Techniques et Commerciales
By the end of ‘’Seconde’’, all streams (S3, T, G) students should have been trained to practice, review and reinforce the following in terms of Skills, Functions
& Notions, Grammar, Topics.
TOPICS/SETTINGS/ SKILLS FUNCTIONS/ GRAMMAR SUGGESTED
SITUATIONS/VOCABULARY NOTIONS ACTIVITIES
1. The Industrial World 1. Reading 1. Identifying through description of 1. to be + adj. 1. Information gap,
2. At the Workplace a. Skimming to obtain the gist shape, size, texture, location; 2. Adverbs/prepositions of
3. Tools and Machine Tools b. Scanning to locate specific 2. Asking questions location: here, there, etc. 2. Diagram completion /
4. Production information 3. Identifying faults including: - 3. Demonstratives labeling, from oral/-
5. Manufacturing c. Structure of a text description of fault, location 4. Imperatives, written description
6. Servicing (Spare Parts) d. Identifying/producing text 4. Suggesting a course of action 5. Passives
7. Information Technology types 5. Giving/understanding instructions 6. Don't + verb; 3. Role Play
8. Buying & Selling e. Evaluating a piece of and warnings 7. Be careful
9. Currencies discourse(register, style, tone, 6. describing a process 8. You may + verb; 4. Simulation
10. Banking & Means of Payment etc.) 7. evaluating a process 9. Comparatives
11. Shopping f. Understanding symbols and 8. expressing quantity and 10. Superlatives 5. Marking Text
12. Management & Company abbreviations measurements 11. If-clause
Organization g. Interpreting diagrams 9. Assessing work done, including 12. Modals 6. Discussion
13. Advertising 2. Writing expressing satisfaction and 13. First, second, then, etc.
14. Transportation a. letters dissatisfaction 14. Interrogatives 7. Project Work
15. Training & Jobs b. memos 10. agreeing/disagreeing 15. Neither…nor
c. reports 11. Proposing solutions to a problem 16. Because…;
d. CVs 12. Identifying problem by 17. therefore
e. summarizing -exposition, 18. If… then, it is
f. Using abbreviations/symbols -evaluation 19. Past tenses
g. Using diagrams, tables -conclusion 20. First conditional
3. Listening -solution and. 21. Tag questions
a. Evaluating a piece of -argument 22. Simple Present
discourse (register, style, 13. Asking/answering questions 23. Direct/indirect Speech
tone, etc.) 14. Giving information 24. Numbers
b. Following oral presentation 15. Organizing/Presenting Personal 25. Quantifiers
4. Speaking information , etc. 26. Etc.
a. Making an oral report
b. Initiating, maintaining, and
terminating a discourse
c. Summarizing
5. Note-taking
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B – Premières Techniques et Commerciales
By the end of Première, all streams (S3, T, G) students should have been trained to practice, review and reinforce the following in terms of Skills, Functions
&Notions, Grammar, Topics.
Topics/Settings/Situations/ SKILLS FUNCTIONS / NOTIONS GRAMMAR SUGGESTED
Vocabulary In addition to reviewing & reinforcing ACTIVITIES
what has been introduced in Seconde
Class, students will be able to
1. Places and Conditions of Work 1. Reading 1. Predicting 1. If clauses 1. Information gap,
2. Employment and a. Understand implicit 2. Expressing cause / effect 2. Modals 2. Diagram completion
Unemployment information 3. Agreeing/disagreeing 3. Tenses / labeling, from
3. Professional Training b. Understand the communicative 4. Seeking information 4. First, second, then, oral/written
4. Economy and Migration value or function of a piece of 5. Describing therefore, so, thus, etc. description
5. Child Labour discourse 6. Expressing satisfaction / 5. Passives 3. Role Play
6. The Industrial Sector c. Understand/use graphic dissatisfaction 6. Comparatives, 4. Simulation
7. e – commerce representations, tables, cross- 7. Explaining Superlatives 5. Marking Text
8. Manufacturing technology referencing 8. Expressing/understanding 7. Prepositions/ 6. Discussion
9. Trade unions d. Transcode information prohibition postpositions 7. Project Work
10. Privatisation 2. Writing 9. Warning 8. Adverbs 8. Letter writing
11. Globalisation a. express information implicitly 10. Apologising 9. Phrasal verbs 9. Reordering /
12. Maintenance b. use graphic representations, 11. Giving/understanding 10. Reported speech jumbled sentences
13. Industry and pollution tables, cross-referencing instructions 11. Neither.., nor 10. Presentation
14. Finance/Insurance c. plan and organise information 12. Expressing similarities and 12. Either.., or
15. Freight in expository language differences 13. Quantifiers
16. Customs d. reformulate information by 13. Expressing obligation 14. Wh-questions
- paraphrasing to avoid repetition 14. Necessity/lack of necessity 15. Infinitive / ING forms
e. relay information 15. Possibility
f. use relevant points to make a 16. Permission
summary 17. Ability
g. produce written summaries 18. Expressing reason
from notes 19. Complaining
3. Listening 20. placing an order
a. Understand implicit 21. booking a hotel
information 22. registering for a service
b. Understand the communicative
value or function of a piece of
discourse
c. Transfer information
4. Speaking
a. express implicit information
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b. use relevant points to make a
summary
c. Plan and organise information
in expository language
d. reformulate information by
paraphrasing to avoid repetition
e. relay information
f. summarize orally from notes
g. use the telephone
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C – Terminales Techniques et Commerciales
By the end of Terminale, all streams (S, T, G ), students should have been trained to practice, review and reinforce the following in
terms of Skills, functions,/ notions, Grammar, Topics.
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diagram)
d. understand explicit
information
e. understand meaning
through stress, intonation
f. evaluate a piece of
discourse
g. use the telephone
4. Speaking
a. express explicit
information
b. express meaning through
stress, intonation
c. organise information
presented in a
diagrammatic display into
speech
d. reformulate information to
avoid repetition
e. relay information
f. use the telephone
This listing of what should be covered in each year is not intended to be constricting for teachers. There may be aspects omitted that thoughtful teachers
want to include with classes. If in doubt, please check with your CP/CPI or the Bureau d’Anglais. Please also inform the Bureau d’Anglais with
suggestions. Our belief is that language is living; therefore, it is necessary to continuously update this document.
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4 METHODOLOGIE
En tout état de cause, étant donné que ce seront des techniques d’exploitation de texte qui
seront plus particulièrement utilisées, le texte constituera un élément de base. Il est
souhaitable qu’il puisse être suppléé par tout support susceptible d’en faciliter l'étude et la
compréhension: dessins, diagrammes, transparents, diapositives, films, etc.
L'approche en classe devra être caractérisée par le souci de placer l'élève au centre de
l’apprentissage. L’apprenant sera l'acteur principal qui doit agir et s'exprimer face à un
partenaire ou dans un groupe, au cours d'exercices variés.
La motivation et l'intérêt des élèves seront d'un grand apport dans la réalisation des
objectifs et une attitude de facilitateur chez l'enseignant stimulera ces deux facteurs. Le
professeur de langue ne disputera pas la spécialité aux élèves ou aux professeurs des matières
techniques et commerciales. Bien au contraire, il en fera des alliés précieux en reconnaissant
leurs expertise et en leur demandant leur part de contribution.
2-5 EVALUATION
10. l'évaluation est en premier lieu, un moyen de tester les acquis de l’apprenant, de mesurer
ses aptitudes.
Elle doit enfin être pour l'élève l’occasion de mettre en pratique les aptitudes acquises.
Il est entendu que les types d'exercices choisis seront familiers à tous les élèves.
A court terme, des contrôles de connaissances réguliers seront organisés en moyenne une à
deux fois par mois.
A long terme enfin, un examen final, de forme écrite, testant différents aspects de la
langue, sanctionnera la fin du second cycle.
11. les épreuves trop longues ou trop courtes, en tenant compte du temps imparti, de deux
heures en général.
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12. Les sujets complexes ou trop spécifiques, compte tenu des différentes séries ayant à subir
une épreuve commune,
15. objective, grâce à un système de notation invariable d'un correcteur à l'autre, donc fiable,
16. valide par son contenu, en rapport avec le programme et les activités d’apprentissage ;
En dehors des inspections éventuelles, il est souhaitable que l'enseignant procède à une
autoévaluation ponctuelle de son travail.
L'enseignement pourrait aussi être évalué entre collègues, de manière informelle, sous
forme de discussions, ou d'observation de cours par exemple.
Les élèves pourraient aussi contribuer à l'évaluation du programme ou du cours, selon des
critères clairs et définis, sous forme de questionnaires par exemple, qu'ils rempliraient. Le
dépouillement et le feed-back ainsi obtenus pourraient mener à des changements ou
ajustements adéquats
Cette forme d'évaluation impliquant le professeur et l’apprenant peut aussi créer une
atmosphère de confiance, un sentiment de satisfaction de participer à l'amélioration du
programme ou du cours
Il est souhaitable que toutes les remarques tirées de ces différentes évaluations puissent
être envoyées au niveau de la Commission Nationale d’Anglais.
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APPENDICES
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APPENDIX A: Principles for teaching and learning
English in Sénégal
The following principles sum up the approach to the teaching and learning of
English in Senegal as expressed in this curriculum document.
It is a learner-centered approach in which learners’ needs and interests are taken into account.
This will help learners’ motivation.
There is an emphasis on active learning with a variety of activities, such as pair and group
work and task-based activities. The activities should cater for the different learning styles and
levels of learners.
Learners should be encouraged to take responsibility for their learning. For example, learners
could be encouraged to bring their own materials or collect their own resources.
Interactive activities.
Language use and classroom tasks should relate to real-life tasks. Alternative wording from
another group: The teaching/learning process should be as close to real life as possible.
Learners should be placed in situations where they need to communicate in an authentic way.
Teachers should endeavor to create a relaxed and stress-free atmosphere in the classroom.
Making and correcting errors should be seen as part of the learning process. Teachers should
ensure that there is sensitivity and flexibility in error correction.
Teachers and learners should take into account psychological considerations involved in error
correction. Some students are more receptive and sensitive in error correction than others.
There is an emphasis on the integration of the four skills of listening, speaking, reading and
writing in class activities to ensure good coverage of these skills. (Listening has been a
neglected skill in the language classroom and it needs to regain its prominence as a skill.)
The ultimate objective should be skills, not knowledge.
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Teachers should teach beyond word level (phonology).
Assessment should be in line with the communicative approach. This means that it should be
meaningful and relate validly and reliably to classroom learning and teaching. That is,
teachers should test what they teach. Teaching should not be a permanent testing. Learners
should be aware of the wash back effect of any assessment (written/oral).
Materials should not just be tailored classroom texts but authentic: audio-texts, hyper-texts,
social documents (e.g. forms, adverts, newspaper cuttings).
Learners should be exposed to different resources (e.g. other professionals talking about their
experiences).
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APPENDIX B: Support documentation
• Glossary of terms
The following glossary of terms has been compiled for English teachers to use a reference when
needed in the course of f their teaching and for their own development as teachers. It is not
intended to be used as a basis for teaching the pupils.
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glide A glide is an approximant in which the tongue and lips move during the production of the sound. English
examples are the initial phones in woo [w] and you [j].
grammar (1) The word grammar is used as a collective word for morphology and syntax, i.e. for patterns both
within and between words.
grammar (2) The word grammar is also used a technical term for a rule-based approach which generates a particular
set of sentences. Formally, a grammar consists of a set of nonterminal symbols (one of which is the start symbol), a
set of terminal symbols and a set of productions or re-writing rules. Terminals (e.g. words) are the basic units of the
sentences which the grammar generates. Nonterminals are symbols used only in the grammar itself. A production is a
rule which says that the symbols on the left-hand side can be re-written as those on the right-hand side. One of the
nonterminals must be the start symbol, i.e. the symbol from which re-writing starts.
grapheme A grapheme is a 'spelling unit'. For example, in Spanish the combination ll represents a different sound from
a single l. Thus these are two graphemes. In English, graphemes may be quite complex. For example -tion behaves more-
or-less as a single grapheme in words like function.
idiolect The language used by one individual is sometimes called an idiolect. A dialect or language can then be
regarded as a collection of mutually intelligible idiolects.
indirect object See object.
Indo-European Linguists divide languages into a number of families, based on similarity and shared descent. Indo-
European languages were natively spoken in a broad band through Europe to northern India and Bangladesh.
Historically, the only major non-Indo-European languages spoken in this area were Finnish, Hungarian, Basque and
Turkish. It is believed that all the Indo-European languages are descended from one language spoken around 4,000 BC. It
is important to be aware that different language families may be based on quite different principles, both in their sounds
and in their grammar.
inflection A grammatical change in the form of a word (more accurately of a lexeme). In English, inflections are
restricted to the endings of words (i.e. -s is the usual written plural inflection in English. Inflections in nouns may show
changes of number, gender, case, etc.; in verbs, of number, person, tense, aspect, etc.
intonation Intonation refers to changes in the tone or frequency of sounds during speech. For example, in English the
tone usually falls at the end of a statement and rises at the end of a question, so that You want some coffee. and You want
some coffee? can be distinguished by tone alone. In some languages (e.g. Chinese, Thai), sequences containing the same
phones but with different intonation patterns correspond to different words.
IPA The International Phonetic Alphabet or IPA is a set of symbols which can be used to represent the phones and
phonemes of natural languages. A subset which can be used to represent 'Standard English English' (roughly the dialect
of middle-class people from the south east of England) is given in a separate table.
language See natural language and dialect.
length Length refers to the time duration of a phone. The English words beat and bead differ the length of the vowel as
well as the voicing of the terminal stop; the vowel is longer in bead than in beat. In some languages the length of
consonants may also be important.
lexeme The five words eat, eats, eating, eaten and ate are morphological variants of the word eat. In a sentence their
underlying meaning will be the same. Thus we may say that the five words form a single lexeme, i.e. a single 'meaning
entity'. A dictionary would be expected to contain only one definition for all five words.
lexicon Often used as a technical term for the list of words and their types which is used with a grammar.
liquid A liquid is a kind of approximant. English examples are the initial phones in lap and rap.
masculine See gender.
mood A verb may be in the active or passive mood, and hence so may the sentence in which the verb appears.
Compare the dog chased the cat (active) with the cat was chased by the dog (passive).
morphology The structure of words and the study of this structure. Thus, for example, a morphological analysis of the
English word redefining might yield the root define, the prefix re indicating repetition, and the ending ing.
MT = Machine Translation
nasal A nasal is a phone made by allowing air to flow out of the nose while stopping it in the mouth. English has three
such phones: those which end the words rum, run and rung.
natural language Any language naturally used by people, i.e. not a man-made language like a programming language
or Esperanto.
neuter See gender.
NL = Natural Language.
NLP = Natural Language Processing.
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nominative See case.
nonterminal See grammar.
noun Generally defined as a word standing for the 'name of something.' A useful test is that a noun or a noun phrase
can be replaced by a pronoun, e.g. it or her. Examples of nouns are people, cats and intelligence in Many people think
that cats have considerable intelligence. The strings of words many people and considerable intelligence are noun phrases
in this example.
NP = Noun Phrase. See also phrase.
number In English, nouns and verbs can be described as singular or plural depending on whether the reference is to
one or to many. Thus in the cat runs, cat is singular as is runs, whereas in cats run, cats is plural as is run. English nouns
are generally clearly marked as singular or plural; verbs are clearly singular only in the third person singular of the
present tense.
object (of a sentence) The direct object of an active sentence is a noun, noun phrase or pronoun which suffers
the action of the verb. Thus in Those people dislike cats, cats is the object of the sentence. In English, only pronouns
show case, and become accusative when forming the object of a sentence: thus, e.g., cats in the sentence above must be
replaced by them rather than they. In other languages, nouns, adjectives, articles, etc. may all change case. The indirect
object of a sentence in English is a noun or equivalent which, if the sentence were re-worded, would require a to (or
sometimes a for). Thus in Your mother gave my brother a cake, a cake is the direct object and my brother the indirect
object, since if we reverse brother and cake we need a togiving Your mother gave a cake to my brother. Direct and
indirect objects may take different cases in some languages; e.g. in German, me is mich (accusative) when it is the
direct object, but mir (dative) when it is the indirect object. See also subject.
parse To analyse a sentence using a grammar, including deciding whether it is valid and what its structure is according
to the grammar.
participant theta-role See theta role.
passive A passive sentence is one which has a basic pattern like The cat was killed or The cat was killed by the dog, i.e.
it describes what one thing (the subject) has done to it, often by another thing. The verb in an passive sentence can be
said to be in the passive mood. See also active.
person (of a verb) Verbs (in Indo-European languages at least) often vary depending on whether the subject of the
verb is in the first person (singular = I, plural = we), the second person (singular and plural = you in modern English), or
the third person (singular = he, she or it, plural = they). Only the verb be in the singular shows a full set of changes due to
person in modern English: I am, you are, it is.
phone A phone is a 'unit sound' of a language in the sense that it is the minimal sound by which two words can differ.
For example, the English word feed contains three phones since each can be independently substituted to form a different
word. In the IPA, the three phones can be written as [f], [i] and [d]. Examples of substitutions are: [fid] - [f] + [s] gives
[sid], i.e. seed; [fid] - [i] + [u] gives [fud], i.e. food; [fid] - [d] + [t] gives [fit], i.e. feet. The whole of each phone must be
substituted to change one word into another. It is important to note that whether or not speakers can distinguish between
sounds is not a test of whether they constitute distinct phones. The word tea could be represented as [ti] and the word tree
as [tri]. However, the two 't sounds' are not quite the same: the tongue is further back in the mouth when pronouncing the
[t] in [tri] than when pronouncing the [t] in [ti]. How far to divide up phones is essentially a pragmatic question. See also
allophone, phoneme.
phoneme A phoneme is a minimally distinctive set of sounds in a language; sound sequences which differ in a single
phoneme can constitute different words. Thus the pairs tipdip and trip-drip show that English has two distinct phonemes,
which we can write as /t/ and /d/, since substituting one for the other produces a different word. However, the
pronunciation of /t/ (and /d/) is not the same in each pair: the tongue is further back in the mouth when /t/ is followed by
/r/. Hence there are at least two phones corresponding to the /t/ phoneme. However there are no two English words in
which the ONLY difference is that the 't sound in trip' is replaced by the 't sound in tip' -- these two sounds are
allophones of the same phoneme. English speakers do not need to recognize the difference between them.
phonetics Phonetics is the study of the sounds of speech (i.e. the study of phones). It can be distinguished from
phonology which is more concerned with the underlying theory (i.e. the phonemes which underlie phones and the rules
which govern the conversion of phonemes to phones and vice versa).
phonological rule At some theoretical level, words can be considered to be composed of phonemes. The actual sound
of a word then depends on which allophone is chosen for each phoneme. The context-sensitive rules which determine
this are called phonological rules. Thus the word input can be considered to contain the phoneme /n/. However in fast
speech in many dialects of English, the phone used will be [m]. The relevant phonological rule for English is that a nasal
becomes articulated at the same position as a following stop.
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phonology See phonetics.
phrase A string of words can often act as an exact grammatical substitute for a single word; such a string is called a
'phrase'. Thus e.g. a noun can be replaced by a noun phrase -- compare Whiskers is over there with That appalling pet of
yours is over there, in which That appalling pet of yours is a noun phrase equivalent to the noun Whiskers.
plural See number.
pragmatics A technical term meaning, roughly, what the person speaking or writing actually meant, rather than what
the words themselves mean.
preposition A preposition is one of a finite set of words (e.g. at, from, by) which in English must usually be followed
by a noun or its equivalent. A prepositional phrase (PP) consists of a preposition followed by a noun, pronoun or noun
phrase. Two major uses of prepositional phrases are to show location (e.g. on the mat in the cat sits on the mat) and
motion (e.g. into the house in the cat runs into the house). The word preposition comes from pre plus position. In other
languages (e.g. the Indo-European languages of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh), there are postpositions: words
which come after a noun or its equivalent.
production See grammar.
pronoun A pronoun is one of a small set of words which can substitute for a noun or noun phrase. It usually refers
back to a previous occurrence of the noun or noun phrase. Thus, e.g., it in the previous sentence is a pronoun which refers
back to A pronoun in the sentence before. The process of referring is sometimes called anaphora.
referential semantics A system where the meaning of a word just is the thing it refers to.
RTN= Recursive Transition Network.
semantic feature A semantic feature is a 'primitive' which a language processor (human or computer) is assumed to
be able to determine independently of the language system. The meaning of words such as nouns or adjectives can
then be described in terms of sets of these features. For example we might describe the meaning of words such as boy,
man, girl and woman in terms of the features YOUNG, MALE and HUMAN. Boy would be [+YOUNG, +MALE,
+HUMAN], woman would be [-YOUNG, -MALE, +HUMAN].
semantics Used as a technical term for the meaning of words and sentences (see also pragmatics).
singular See number.
start symbol See grammar.
stop Some phones are produced by completely stopping and then releasing the flow of air out of the mouth. These
sounds are called stops. In most dialects of English there are three stop positions, corresponding to the initial phones in
pale, tale and kale.
stress Words can be divided into syllables, usually centred around a vowel. In many languages, including English, the
duration and relative loudness of a syllable -- its stress -- are important. Thus only stress distinguishes the noun process
(as in the sentence This process is called assimilation) from the much less common verb process (as in the sentence I
usually process at the degree ceremony). The noun is stressed on the first syllable, the verb on the second.
STT= Speech To Text.
subject(of a sentence) The subject of a sentence is the noun or noun equivalent which performs the action of the verb.
See also object.
syntax The syntax of a language comprises, roughly speaking, the patterns into which its words can be validly arranged
to form sentences. The combination of morphology and syntax is sometimes called the grammar of a language.
tense(of a verb) The tense of a verb specifies the time at which its action occurs. The clearest examples in English are
the present and past tenses. When saying I am eating an apple the speaker refers to the present; when saying I was eating
an apple, s/he refers to the past. Tense and aspect are not easy to separate in English: I have eaten the apple is partly a
reference to the past (tense), and partly a reference to the action's being complete rather than continuing (aspect).
terminal node A node in a transition network at which parsing can stop.
terminal See grammar.
thematic role See theta role.
theta role Also written using the Greek letter instead of the word theta. Verbs require a number of other components
to be present in a sentence to complete their meaning. These components can be said to play participant theta roles. For
example, in the sentence The girl put the bottles on the table, the action of 'putting' involves three necessary thematic
roles. These are Agent, the entity doing the putting; Patient, the entity which suffers the action of being put; and
Location, where the Agent puts the Patient. A sentence containing the verb put will involve these three roles, even if they
occur in different positions due to the syntax of the sentence. Thus exactly the same entities play exactly the same theta
roles in the sentence The bottles were put on the table by the girl although the syntax is different from the previous
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sentence. In addition to participant theta roles, there are circumstantial theta roles. These show additional, non-required
components. For example, in the kitchen plays a participant theta role in He was putting apples in the kitchen but only a
circumstantial theta role in He was eating apples in the kitchen. In both cases in the kitchen is a location, but put requires
this role, eat merely allows it to be present.
TN= Transition Network.
TTS= Text To Speech.
unvoiced See voicing.
verb A verb is traditionally described as a 'doing' word; thus in the sentences Colourless ideas sleep furiously and The
dog bit the cat, sleep and bit are verbs. English makes extensive use of 'verb groups' or 'compound verbs', such as has
been eating in He has been eating fish in which one or more auxiliaries is combined with a verb.
voiced See voicing.
voiceless See voicing.
voicing Voicing refers to whether or not the vocal cords are vibrated during the production of a phone. Phones such as
vowels or [b] or [d] in which the vocal cords are vibrated are said to be voiced. Phones such as [s] or [p] in which the
vocal cords are not vibrated are said to be voiceless or unvoiced.
vowel (1) A phone which is produced by allowing lung air to pass over the vibrating vocal cords and then freely out of
the mouth is called a vowel. Thus vowels can be continued until you run out of breath. The positions of the lips and
tongue alter the size and shape of the resonating cavity to produce different sounds. (2) A letter of the alphabet usually
pronounced using a vowel phone is also called a vowel. Be careful to distinguish these two usages. In a language with
non-phonemic spelling, such as English, they can be quite different. The word site, for example, contains two vowel
letters but only one vowel phone.
http://www.tutorpal.com
• LESSON EXAMPLARS
The following lesson exemplars have been developed by teams of CPIs who have used the
curriculum document as a basis for developing the lessons. As with all classroom teachers, there
will be differences of teaching style evident; however, the principles of communicative language
teaching underpin each lesson.
Class: 4eme
Time: 2 hours
Topic: Cultural Heritage Theme: Heroic figures
Text: The Queen Sisters (Unit 5 Lesson 3) p34 (see attached text)
Functions and Notions: Describing people and events from the past
Aim: Students will be able to recognize and use the past passive in context.
Students will practice reading for details.
Students will learn about two Senegalese heroines and write about other historical figures.
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Materials: Go For English New Edition-Pictures of Heroes-Chart
2 min. After the ss have identified Lat Dior, T asks ss to write 3 things individual
they remember about Lat Dior
3 min When students have finished making their lists, they should s-s
compare with the other student at their table. (pairs)
15 – 20 min Ss read text to try to learn the answers to ‘what we Want to Ind.
know’ and any other information they find interesting. Ss share s-s (pairs)
information with partner.
5 - 10 min T elicits information for the ‘what we Learned’ column of the t-ss
chart and records it on board. If any questions from the ‘what we
Want to know’ column are unanswered, T brainstorms with ss
how they can find that info and makes a plan to do so.
Grammar:
5 min T asks ss to go back to the text and underline each use of the past Ind.
passive.
10 min Practice: ss put the following sentences into the passive voice ind
1. We learn the history of Senegalese heroes and heroines at
primary school.
2. The French killed Lat Dior at Dekhlé in 1886.
3. The French built the railways from Dakar to St Louis.
4. The Senegalese people elected Leopold Sedar Senghor
president in 1960.
T asks ss who finish first to write their answers on board. T t-ss
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checks with class once all sentences are up.
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Vocabulary:
Find a word or phrase in the text that can replace the word or phrase in italics in the following
sentences:
1. One female hero for the people of Senegal is Queen Aline Sitoe Diatta.
2. The little boy and his sister were left without parents when their mother and father died in a tragic
accident.
3. The people who believed in the teachings of El Hadj Omar Tall helped bring Islam to the Fouta
region.
4. The government controls the import and export of goods to help strengthen the economy.
5. Some people try to force others to do what they want without regard for what is best for everyone.
6. When a woman has a baby, it is safest for both the mother and the baby to be at a hospital or
clinic.
Information transfer:
1. Fill in the chart about the Queen Sister’s family tree. Write the names of the queen sisters’ other
family members:
Ndatté
Yalla
Prince Yeli
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TEXT
Linguéer Ndieumbeut and Linguéer Ndatté Yalla were famous women in the history of Walo,
the northern region of Senegal. Linguéer is the Wolof word for queen. They were orphaned at a
very early age (their mother, Linguéer Fatim Yamar Mbodji, was the heroine of the collective suicide
of the women of Nder). They were famous as they were the only women survivors of the ‘Tuesday
of Nder.’
These queen sisters reigned from about 1840 to 1855. They played a great role in the fight
against the colonists: they refused their orders, and they helped their cousin who was the ruling king
to fight against the French settlers and the other enemies. They were appreciated by their followers
and the population because they stood up, imposed their will, and succeeded in getting what they
wanted from the settlers. They also regulated the trade on the Walo part of the Senegal River. They
helped their kingdom prosper.
Both of the queens gave birth to well-known princes. Linguéer Ndatté Yalla is the mother of
Prince Sidya Ndatté Yalla, who was adopted by Leon Faidherbe and renamed Sidya Leon Diop. He
was educated in a military school in France and came back to Senegal, but he refused to submit to
and collaborate with the French colonists. They sent him to a concentration camp in Gabon, where
he died in 1878.
Linguéer Ndieumbeut is the mother of Prince Yeli, known as Bour Trarza (King of Trarza).
He was a prince in Mauritania because his father was the king and in Walo because of his mother.
Thanks to him and his mother, peace was brought between the two kingdoms of Walo and Trarza.
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LEVEL : TERMINALE
TIME : 2 hours
AIM :
Students will use the comparative construction “the _______, the ________” to express
relationships.
Students will use vocabulary related to population and development in context.
Students will practice persuasive speech.
To promote students autonomy by developing cooperative learning.
MATERIALS: picture of China; the text ‘Too Many People’ (Go For English Terminale p.13)
PROCEDURE :
Time Activity Interaction
15mn Brainstorming
-T shows pictures of China and asks student to -individuals
give one problem China is facing.
( T leads them to the problem of population, if
they don’t mention it)
5mn Reading
-Then T writes text title on the board and asks
SS to make guesses about the country and try to -individuals
specify the problem.
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A/ SS read text and match the words from the
20mn text with their corresponding definitions.
-individuals first then
1-damage a-workforce check within group
2-nearly b-food production
3-manpower c-almost
4-crops d-destruction
5-widely-held e-popular
Writing:
Each group writes an article on their topic for
the English Club Newsletter.(groups can merge
if they want to).
Group project:
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Unit 1: TOO MANY PEOPLE
Text E :
Evidence from the Machakos region of Kenya contradicts widely held views
about the consequences of population growth in rural parts of Africa. The popular
view is that the more the people farming the land, the greater the damage to the
environment, particularly in the form of soil degradation and destruction of trees.
Since the 1930s the population in the Machakos region has increased to five times
what it was. It is now nearly one and a half million. In the same period of time not
only has the total agricultural output increased, but the output per person has increased
and there are no signs of it diminishing. This increase has come about not in spite of
the population increase, but precisely because of it. The larger population has provided
the manpower required to make the terraces and other earthworks needed to prevent
erosion. It is not only the extra labour that has made this possible, it is also the spirit of
enterprise of the people, their intelligent adoption of the most suitable techniques and
methods and the cooperative structures and institutions of their society. The result is
that hillsides which were once scarred with sheet and gully erosion and bare of trees
are now neatly terraced and covered in trees and crops both for exporting and for local
consumption. Research in other parts of Africa reveals a similar experience.
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ESP LESSON EXEMPLAR
Materials: cutting of the newspaper title, complete article, pictures of cell phones.
Procedure:
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DO CELL PHONES NEEDWARNINGS?
Who knows? But now that manufacturers are providing level, buyers may beware
Any cell-phone shopper who personal-communications British group. "If there is a choice,
walks into one of the 120 products. use a landline phone. If you do
Metrocall stores across the US A comparison of the radiation have to use a mobile phone, you
these days will receive a one-page levels for phones new in stores should seriously look into a
health-and-safety bulletin that hints at the choices that hands- free extension" to
warns of the possible dangers of consumers will soon face. The minimize the risk (s). As such
using a cell phone (a). The leaflet data first appeared on a website in advice spreads, manufacturers
cautions parents who want phones June and has since become could find themselves marketing
for their children to consider available on a more consumer- their phones on the basis of safety
pagers instead, to avoid exposing friendly Internet venue as much as on styling or battery
the youngsters to any risks (b). (www.sardata.com/sardata.htm). life (t).
"We try not to take sides in the According to these figures, users
argument about cell-phone safety of an Ericsson T2S World digital (Adapted from John
(c)," says Mike Scanlon , phone absorbs an SAR of 1.49, Greenwald in TIME, October 9
Metrocall's senior vice president while owners of a Motorola Star 2000, p. 66, 67)
for marketing. "But at least we TAC 78GO got just 0.24.
can make our customers aware of "Numbers without context do not
the debate(d)." help any consumer, (k)" says
The rest of US cell-phones Mikael Westmark, a health-and-
sellers will soon follow this safety spokesman for Ericsson.
Metrocall attitude, on the sensitive Concurs William Plummer,
issue of potential cell-phone Nokia's vice president for
health hazards. Beginning this government and industry at fairs:
fall, Motorola, Nokia and all other "All these phones on the market
cell-phone makers will bow to have passed a government safety WHAT SCIENCE SAYS
mounting concerns about safety standard."(l)
by disclosing just how much The big problem is that
radiation their phones emit (e). scientists still haven't reached any Mixed Message
That is likely to launch a scramble definitive conclusions about cell
by concerned shoppers to find the phone radiation (see box). Given Can your cell phone really
cell phones that put out the lowest that, consumers may grasp at give you cancer? The best answer
levels of radiation.(f) whatever data are available when science can offer so far is maybe.
Such a consequence is deciding what to buy (m). That Researchers have discovered
precisely what phone makers are will be true especially for that cell-phone radiation can cause
eager to avoid. "There has been a purchases made for children, subtle, short-term biological
huge concern that this could be whose developing brain absorb effects in humans – including
used for comparison more radiation than our brains and changes in brain wave patterns
shopping"(g), says Norm Sandler, who could be exposed to potential during sleep – but their full
a spokesman for Motorola, the harm for decades to come. (n) significance remains to be
N°2 cellular manufacturer after That effect has led parents like determined. Given that
Nokia. To discourage what they Gilbert Yablon to just say no. "I uncertainty and the fact that
call misleading comparisons, (h) don't let my [eighteen years old] everyone from the National
the companies will place a daughter talk on the cell Cancer Institute to the World
statement in boxes that declares phone."(o) Yablon goes on: "I'll Health Organization is
all phones that emit radiation take the risk for myself, but I don't investigating cell-phone radiation,
below the Federal want her being exposed to it." (p) many experts caution that it is far
Communications Commission In England, a panel of experts too early to give the phones a
SAR ceiling of 1.6 are equally last summer called for "a clean bill of health.
safe (i). (An SAR measures the precautionary approach" that Cell phones work by
energy in watts per kilogram that includes discouraging children transmitting radio waves to base
one gram of body tissue absorbs from making nonessential calls stations that plug calls into a
from a cell phone.) "There's no and using headsets to keep network. The waves are a form of
evidence that any number below radiation away from the brain. (q) non-ionizing radiation – unlike,
the threshold is safer than any The bottom line? "Don't us use a say, X-rays, which have the power
other, (j)" says Chuck Eger, mobile phone more than you have to change the atoms in human
Motorola's director of strategic to."(r) Says physicist Lawrence cells to potentially hazardous ions
and regulatory policy for Challis, vice chairman of the by scattering their electrons. Non-
ionizing radiation can also be
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dangerous. At the high levels use of a cell phone. In a frequently launched a series of studies that
found in radar or inside cited 1997 report, Australian ended last year, including one that
microwave ovens, it can heat and researchers exposed mice bred claim shows the link between cell
severely damage tissue. The with a predisposition to –phone use and a rare type of
question for scientists is whether lymphomas to two daily 30-min brain tumor. That report's
the low-energy (and low-heat) doses of cell-phone radiation for principal author has said the
signals from cell phones can do up to 18 months. The mice correlation could be due to
harm. "What this debate is really developed tumor at twice the rate chance, but Carlo is undaunted.
about," says Microwave News of animals that haven't been "No one study allows you to make
editor Louis Slesin, "whether cell duplicated, and some scientists a definitive determination about
phones have non thermal health question their relevance. public health", he says. "It's how
effects." The most outspoken cell- all the pieces fit together that
Cancer studies have been phone critic is George Carlo, counts." For now, the best advice
inconclusive since 1993 when a whom the cellular industry hired science can offer about cell
Florida man brought an to investigate the issue in the phones is handle with care.
unsuccessful lawsuit that blamed wake of the 1993 case. Backed by J.G.
his wife's fatal brain tumor on her a $25 million grant, Carlo
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• Test Guidelines
READING COMPREHENSION
Types de texte
• Thèmes généraux, d’actualité, sur la base du curriculum
• Contenu culturel pas trop spécifique
• Ecarter les poèmes
• Respecter le format des conversations
• Respecter la cohérence du texte
• Conserver les illustrations autant que possible
Longueur du texte
• Dans une fourchette de 15 à 20 lignes, soit 200 à 260 mots tenant compte de la quantité de
papier, du temps (02 heures), de la lourdeur et de la complexité du texte
• Les compositions doivent être saisies à l’ordinateur.
Niveau de difficulté
• Mots et expressions difficiles : 03 au maximum
• Notes de bas de page ou de fin de texte en français ou en anglais si le contexte ou la
morphologie ne permettent pas de deviner le sens.
• Se concerter avec au moins 02 collègues pour jauger du niveau de difficulté.
• Eviter l’argot.
Types d’exercices
• Varier les exercices : gap filling, matching, MCQ, referencing, identifying, answering
questions, etc.
• Donner des types d’exercices auxquels les élèves auront été habitués et conformes au
curriculum.
• Instructions : en anglais simple et clair, suivies d’exemples. Que les instructions ne soient pas
en elles-mêmes un test.
Vocabulaire
• Objectif : voir si l’élève peut deviner le sens (immédiat ou figuré) d’un mot ou d’une
expression à partir du contexte ou de la morphologie.
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COMPETENCE LINGUISTIQUE
REDACTION
FINALISATION
1. Inclure le corrigé.
2. Faire relire le document final par le groupe de travail avant le tirage.
3. Equilibrer le barème. Donner plus de poids aux exercices qui requièrent plus de temps.
4. Le groupe de travail évalue les résultats et conditions d’administration du test.
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2. Guidelines pour l’élaboration de tests en Terminale et au bac blanc
Le Bac, à l’instar du BFEM, comporte trois parties :
READING COMPREHENSION
Types de texte
• Thèmes généraux intéressants et / ou d’actualité en conformité avec le
curriculum.
• Contenu culturel pas trop spécifique / culture générale
o Poèmes ( mode d’expression mais focus sur le contenu)
• Respecter le format des conversations
• Respecter la cohérence du texte
• Conserver les illustrations autant que possible
• Longueur du texte
• Dans une fourchette de 20 à 40 lignes ( 200 à 400 mots) tenant compte de la
qualité du papier, du temps( 3 heures), de la lourdeur et de la complexité du texte
• Les épreuves doivent être saisies à l’ordinateur
Niveau de difficulté
• Mots et expressions difficiles : 03 au maximum
• Notes de bas de page ou de fin de texte en anglais ou en français si le contexte ou
la morphologie ne permet pas de deviner le sens .
• Se concerter avec au moins 02 collègues pour jauger du niveau de difficulté.
• Eviter l’argot ,le langage vulgaire et les abréviations
Types d’exercices
• Varier les exercices: gap filling,matching, MCQ ,referencing, identifying,
answering questions, chart filling, etc …….
• Donner des types d’exercices auxquels les élèves auront été habitués et
conformes au curriculum
• Instructions : en anglais simples et clair, suivies d’exemples si nécessaire. Que les
instructions ne soient en elles-mêmes un test .
• Vocabulaire : voir si l’élève peut deviner le sens (immédiat ou figuré) d’un mot
ou d’une expression à partir du contexte ou de la morphologie
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COMPETENCE LINGUISTIQUE
• Varier autant que possible les exercices afin d’offrir un éventail plus large de points
• Inclure des exercices ciblant les fonctions des mots de liaison
• Formation des mots : amener les élèves à trouver l sens d’un mot à partir de sa morphologie
et à trouver d’autres mots de la même famille
• Tester sur les points les plus fréquents et non les éléments exceptionnels
REDACTION
FINALISATION
• Inclure le corrigé.
• Faire relire le document final par le groupe de travail avant le tirage.
• Vérifier et équilibrer le barème. Donner plus de poids aux exercices plus complexes et/ou qui
requièrent plus de temps.
• Le groupe de travail évalue les résultats et conditions d’administration du test.
• Eviter autant que possible les errata.
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EXAMPLES OF TESTS
The following examples of tests are the types of tests that students may have to write at the BFEM
and Bac exam. They have been included so that the teachers can help prepare their learners
effectively for these exams. They can also be used as a reference for the teachers to set their own
tests.
TEXT
Instead of buying clothes for himself or his family, Gikonyo did what Indian traders used to
do. He bought maize and beans cheaply during the harvests, put them in bags, and hoarded
them in his mother’s smoky hut. That’s where he Mumbi also lived. He argued: they (his wife
and mother) have been naked and have starved for the last six years. A few more months of
waiting won’t make much difference. When the jobs-boom created by the harvests ended,
gikonyo did odd things here and there, waiting for an opportunity. At Thabai and villages
around Rung’ei, most families finished their harvested food by January. Then there always
followed one or two months of drought before the long rains started in March. Even then
people had to to wait for the crops to grow. That was the time Gikonyo gave up hack work as a
carpenter and entered the market. He went to the market very early in the morning, bought one
or two bags of maize at wholesale price from licensed, and at times black-market, maize
suppliers from Rift Valley. Later in the day his wife and mother would join him. Along with
other market women, Mumbi and Wangari would sell the maize at a retail price using tiny
calabashes for a measure. With the money obtained, Gikonyo would again haggle for another
bag and the two women did the retail selling. The profit gained would be reinvested in the
business on the next market-day. Sometimes Gikonyo would buy a bag of maize and then sell it
there and there to another person at a higher price. He was never rude to customers. He talked
with humble conviction and put himself at their service; always ready to apologize, he insisted
on giving his customers prompt attention. This way, he coaxed in money. Women, especially
liked doing business with him. “Such a tongue, and so honest too,” they said. So his fame
spread through the market. All the time Gikonyo waited until the maize-grain was very scarce.
The supply from the European farms in the Rift Valley was severely controlled. At the right
time, he poured what he had hoarded on to the market at a high price.
IT HAD BEEN A LIFE OF STRUGGLE; At first other men derided him for doing a
woman’s job. Brushing sides with women’s skirts. But when his fortunes changed, they started
respecting him. Some even tried to follow his example with varying degrees of success.
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B/ say whether the following statements are true or false according to the texts and justify
properly with a short quotation from the text
1- He got on well
with his customers
2- Gikonyo’s
imitators were all
successful
C/ Match the words (which are underlined in the text) in column A with their equivalents in
column B (2 points)
1- hoard a- rare
2- haggle b-popularity
3- scarce c- bargain
4- fame d- treasure
D/ Circle the letter: A,B,C,D, which corresponds to the right answer (2points)
1- They have starved for the last six years( line 5) means they have:
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2- The other men derided him ( line 29) means they :
A- laughed at him
B- respected him
C- despised him
D- looked down upon him
A/ Word formation: Transform the words in parenthesis to fit into the sentence (1,25 points)
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D/ Inserting: insert the appropriate preposition ( 0,75 point)
1-…entering the room Mumbi noticed some body lying on the mat.
2- She was obsessed………..the idea of finding a corpse there.
3- She immediately thought that Gikonyo would be charge……….murder.
Choose one of the se two topics and write about 150 to 200 words.
A / What would you tell those men who “derided Gikonyo for doing a woman’s job”? Explain your
point of view with everyday life examples.
B/ Imagine Gikonyo trying to persuade one of his deriders to follow his example. In your dialogue
show the different steps Gikonyo went through to be successful.
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Answer key
I/ Reading Comprehension
A/Questions
B/ true or false
C/ Matching
1- D
2- C
3- A
4- B
D/ M C Q
1- → C
2- → D
3- → A
4- → B
E / REFERENCE
1- → Customers
2- → Women
A/ WORD FORMATION
1- Argument
2- Differed
3- Possibility
4- Starvation
5- Fed
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B/ MATCHING
1- → C
2- → A
3- → D
4- → B
C/ COMBINATION
D/ MCQ
1- On
2- By
3- With
Content 2
Accuracy 2
Comprehensibility 2
Length, presentation/format
Content, accuracy, comprehensibility
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EXTRA-CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
• PURPOSE: To assist teachers in the setting up of a students’ association, aimed at the practice
of English in a particular school or area.
• PROCEDURE:
a. It is important that the students want and/or need an English Club before starting. Make
sure the administration is informed about your intentions. And although one teacher can
set up an E.C., it is good to involve all the colleagues from the very beginning.
b. Tell students about activities conducted by a successful E.C. that you know of, or show
materials in English produced by that E.C. (posters, newsletters, photos of a sketch during
a festival). Make positive remarks to show that you are confident that your students can
do something similar.
c. Get the students to convene a large meeting at which the setting up of an E.C. will be
proposed. Act as a facilitator to their efforts. Give them ideas about the organisation of
the membership and possible activities of the club. It is important that the students receive
a taste of what can be offered by an E.C. at this initial meeting.
d. Get a committee elected and encourage them to prepare a schedule of activities. Avoid the
mistake of being too ambitious. A good E.C. is one whose meetings leave the participants
with the desire to attend the next one.
• RESOURCES :
•
a. Use what is available bearing in mind that the purpose of the E.C. activities is to provide
opportunities for learners to practice the language in a stress free atmosphere thus
promoting learner autonomy.
b. Encourage learners to read stories from the materials available in their school libraries or
in the different resource centres (British Council)
d. Tell them about the advantage of listening / watching English language programmes by
the radio/on TV
• SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES
n.b. Training suggestion: Do not reveal the above list of activities straight away. Brainstorm
with the participants for ideas.
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B. THE IMPORTANCE OF EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES
There is a strong feeling that the whole process about language teaching and learning should be
fun. Motivation can be enhanced mainly by using extra-curricular activities in order to avoid routine
work and boredom in the classroom.
In this setting, the students feel less pressure to express themselves and the teacher is no
longer seen as “the master of the classroom,” but rather as a consultant whose help is only needed
as a last resort. In addition, emerging talents can be discovered whose motivation and interest are
piqued by the activities offered by the English Club.
The best example we have is when A.T.E.S (The Association of Teachers of English of Senegal)
is organising each year its yearly festivals (both at the regional and national levels) on a given
theme on which the students have to compete and perform for 15 minutes. The performance can
involve anything related to the given theme and they can feel free to do a sketch, a poem, a song
etc. From these performances, all audiences marvelled over the students’ command of the English
language, their artistic fiber livened more than ever, and a tremendous sense of solidarity, group
work and liberty of expression before audiences composed of parents, teachers , students and
English lovers in such prestigious spectacle theaters as Daniel Sorano or C.I.C.E.S hosting over
1000 people.
Ever since this festival started (in 1999), the teachers’ work to get the students to love and
study the English language is lighter. Indeed, as soon as school opens its doors, the students start
organising themselves having in mind the prospect of the coming festival. We have seen the
examples of some clubs which started scheduling their activities and rehearsing before any
supervisor had been appointed. In this case the supervisor’s work is alleviated -- with such a
commitment from the students, the motivation is from the bottom to the top.
Undoubtedly, the seeds of English lovers have been planted on the hearts and minds of many
participants to these English Club events and future generations of teachers, professors and English
users who have caught the “virus” of the English language will emerge from these English Club
participants.
Besides, it is also important to take into account the role of outings, which are no less relevant
as a way of broadening the horizons of our students. An example we’d like to share is the first
African-African-American summit that took place in Goree in 1995 in which students of the diaspora
and many students from the university and the high schools took part. During that day, the
students exchanged ideas the whole day by singing together, sharing many elements of their
respective cultures, and also breaking many barriers. That event completely transformed the
students who came to Goree by making them more confident and autonomous and it triggered an
enthusiasm that nobody could have dreamt of obtaining.
The advent of ICT’s has also given our students more opportunities to use English, as the
students can go to the internet rooms with their teacher or alone to conduct some projects, chat,
send emails or exchange with other students around the world some aspects relative to culture,
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clothing, food etc. Hence, the students can re-use the English language through activities of their
own interest and evade the constraints of the classroom atmosphere which can be sometimes
oppressive and heavy for some students
In the light of all these events, it is our conviction that extra-curricular activities should not be
neglected because they are an extension of our teaching -- another form which is more relaxing
and more enjoyable for both the students and teachers.
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