Devoir Anglais CNED (Terminale)

1) Compétence linguistique (14 pts)

1. Complétez le texte suivant en mettant les verbes entre

parenthèses au prétérit ou au plus-que-parfait (simple ou en

be+ing)

Could not

Decided

Was

Was feeling

Had not heard

Knew

Was doing

Had offered

Had seen

Had become

Had taken

Had come

Knew

Belonged

2. Traduisez les phrases suivantes en français (6 pts)

1. Une fois la poussière tombée, Dunbar s'aperçu que les guerriers s’étaient

préparés à l'attaque

2. L’homme blanc avait mis pied à terre et restait maintenant immobile. Les

Indiens décidèrent qu’il devait être fou

3. Il aurait pu alors partir mais il n’a pas bougé tout en sachant que la mort

viendrait

3. Traduisez les phrases suivantes en anglais (4,5pts)

4. As he was walking towards them, he could see that one of the warriors, who

had detached himself from the others, was coming towards him

5. He must have thought they would accept him like a friend

6. It could have been his last day

2

) Answer the following questions

a) General comprehension (6 pts)

1. The nature of the text is a first narrative text, maybe it’s an autobiographical

text.

2. The narrator is a young Indian who is returning to his reservation after having

resided in Seattle. At first he falls into apathy and only watches television without

even reading the adds of the newspaper to find a job. However, he begins to

practice basketball again and gets ready to play with others Indians.

b) Back home (9pts)

4. The narrator’s family wasn’t very surprised with the return of the boy. A real

indian place is in a reservation: « there’s an old Indian poet who said that Indians

can reside in the city, but they can never live there. » (l.2)

5. We can see that he’s depressed because he shows a lack of interest in almost

everything. He doesn’t know what he wants to do

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