Devoir Anglais Premieres A Job Seeker's Dilemma

COLLEGE CHAMINADEe Année scolaire 2022-2023 banking house.
I don’t know exactly how it happened but my

Pèporiyakou / Natitingou Thème : Sois meilleur references were very good, and they wrote that I should
BP. 770 Natitingou – BENIN dans ce que tu fais appear on the following Monday. If my appearance was
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satisfactory, they said, I could begin work on the same day.
DEVOIR DU TROISIEME TRIMESTRE That night a strange thing happened. There came to my
Epreuve : ANGLAIS Classe : 1eres A/D Durée : 03H apartment a man named Arthur Pinner. He was a small man
22/04/2023 with a beard. He knew I had worked previously and he also
knew that I was about to begin work in the office of «
I- SITUATION D’EVALUATION Mawson and Williams »
CD n°2 : Réagir de façon précise et appropriée à un message écrit.
CD n°3 : Produire un texte de type et de fonction variés. 2- “I heard a great deal about you, young man, and I am here to
offer you an even better position”, he said. He then began to
I. Epreuve ask me several questions about the banking business, just the
A. REACTION A TEXTE ECRIT kind we need in the Franco-English hardware company. “I
Contexte « Le travail libère l’homme » dit-on. Toute jeune have never heard of your company‟, I said, and Mawson’s is
personne, après les études, se lance donc dans la recherche d’un a very well-known place, and they have offered me a fairly
emploi stable pour s’assurer une place dans la société. good salary. I also know nothing about the hardware
business. ‟Those are details of little importance. Our
Support
company is a new one, but we have branches all over Europe.
TEXT: A job seeker’s dilemma. My brother, H. Pinner, is head of the company and he has
asked me to find a good man to direct some of our foreign
1- “I want to tell my friend, Mr. Watson, the same story you
branches; we will start you off with twice the salary that
have told me‟, said Sherlock Holmes, perhaps you can tell it
Mawson’s is going to pay you.
in somewhat more details. “The worst of the story “, said the
3- ‟But that would be five thousand a year‟ I said. ‟You will
young man, whose name Hall-Pycroft, is that show myself as
get five thousand to start”, he said and within a year you will
such a fool. Of course, it may turn out right, but if I have lost
be making perhaps twice as much. You are just the man we
a good position and get nothing in return, I shall certainly be
need, and we are prepared to pay well for your services‟
angry. I previously worked as a clerk in a certain company
which closed recently and for some months I had been out of (Sir Arthur Conan Dogle. The Clerks, extracted from Objective
work. I spent the little money I had in looking everywhere, Texts in English Comprehension, Lexis Grammar and
day after day, for another position and at last I answered a Structure. ALAIYA Fagbamigbe, ed, Ibadan, Ltd, pp ; (160-
newspaper advertisement by letter and was lucky enough to 161)
find work with « Mawson and Williams », an important
Critères d’evaluation Groupe A Groupe B
1- Skilled a- Position
Après avoir lu le texte, tu montreras que tu l’as compris en :
 Reconnaissant les détails du texte ; 2- Famous b- Advertisement
 Montrant ta maîtrise du vocabulaire des mots du texte ; 3- Employer c- Head
 Traduisant un passage du texte en français 4- Job d- Well-known
 Prouvant ta maîtrise de certaines notions grammaticales ; 5- Public notice offering a e- Able
 Reformulant certaines phrases de façon autonome. job opportunity
Tâches
Item 4: Translate into French the following passage
Item 1: Say whether the following statements are “true” or The last paragraph from “But that would be… ” to “… your
“false” services”.
1- Hall Pycroft was out of work because his company closed
recently. Item 5: Select the right answer; just write down the numbers
2- Mr. Pinner offered Pycroft the position of General and the letters.
Manager.
3- Arthur Pinner is the Head of the company. 1- I wish the boss ………… me in his company today.
4- Hall Pycroft spent his money to seek another job. a) recruits b) recruiting c) recruited d) had recruited
5- « Franco-English Hardware Company » is the only
company in the world. 2- We have been trading …… years now
Item 2: Answer the following questions based on the text. a) for b) ago c) since d) during
1- Was Mr. Pycroft ‘s application at ‟Mawson & Williams”
successful? Justify with a sentence from the text. 3- As soon as we ……. Tomorrow, we will phone you
2- How did he know that a post was vacant at “Mawson & a) finished b) have finished d) will finish d) had
William‟? finished
3- Why Did Mr. Arthur Pinner want Mr. Pycroft to work for
4- I am used to …. …………on credit
their company?
a) Sell b) sold c) selling d) to selling
Item 3: Match the words or phrases from the text in group a
5- She has been recruited in this bank ………….2009
with synonyms in group B
a) some b) since c) for d) ago  Utilisant le vocabulaire, la ponctuation et l’orthographe
appropriés.
Item 6: Rephrase the following sentences using the prompts
given Consigne: Which job would you like to do in the future and
1- If you come to the meeting, you’ll know the new why? Which specific qualities are needed to succeed in this job?
decisions.
 Unless…………………… NB. Write an introduction, a body and a conclusion.
2- They have planned something.
 Something…………………………….
3- What a pity! They didn’t send the goods.
 We wish………………………………
4- They should find a good man to direct the new branch of
the company.
 It is high time …………………………………
5- Even if it was very hard, she had succeeded in finding a
good position in this company.
 No matter ………………………….……………………
B. LA PRODUCTION D’UN TEXTE DE TYPE

PARTICULIER
Contexte : Pour une bonne employabilité, tout demandeur

d’emploi doit d’abord avoir certaines qualifications et qualités
en relation avec son post.
Critères d’évaluation : Tu montreras ta compétence à écrire un

texte en anglais en :
 Respectant le contexte ;
 Respectant la logique interne du texte ;
 Construisant des phrases grammaticalement correctes ;

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COLLEGE CHAMINADEe Année scolaire 2022-2023 banking house.

I don’t know exactly how it happened but my

B. LA PRODUCTION D’UN TEXTE DE TYPE

Contexte : Pour une bonne employabilité, tout demandeur

Critères d’évaluation : Tu montreras ta compétence à écrire un

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