Corrigé compo. anglais 2nd semestre 3éme

I. Reading comprehension
A. The text is: b. a description of a book
B. All the sentences are false. Justify.
1. false: " Ramatoulaye must share her home with Bintou, her cowife."
2. False: " Aissatou, now a divorced woman living in the United States, left Mawdo after he took a cowife."
3. False: " Ramatoulaye's mother disapproved of her choice"
C. Paragraph title matching
1. friends and victims of plygamy= paragraph 4
2. Tradition versus modernity= paragraph 3
3. The context of the book = Paragraph 1
4. The lost husband= paragraph 2
D. Vocabulary in context
a. Synonyms
1. isolation= seclusion 2. belief= faith 3. thinks= muses 4. remembers= recalls 5. possibility= opportunity
b. Antonyms
1. minor#major 2. acccepted# disapproved 3. good# unfit 4. short#long 5. sad# happy
E. Reference
1. she refers to Ramatoulaye.
2. thes women refers to Ramatoulaye and Binetou
3. the dead refers to Modou Fall
II. Communicative linguistic comptence.
A. Rewrite
1. If her husband weren't dead, Ramatoulaye wouldn't feel lonely.
2. Ramatoulaye said to Aissatou that her husband had died the week before and the children had been crying so much.
3. Mamadou Fall was killed by a heart attack.
4. If her husband hadn't married a second wife, Ramatoulaye wouldn't have been unhappy.
B. Tenses
1. While Ramatoulaye was writing a letter to Aissatou, she started crying.
2. As soon as her husband marries a second wife, Penda will certainly go away.
3. Aissatou is living in the United States at the moment.
4. Mawdo has been running after Aissatou since she left him.
C. Asking questions
1. Ramatoulaye: who complains everyday because she is angry.
2. everyday: How often does Ramatoulaye complain because she is angry?
3. because she is angry: why does Ramatoulaye complain everyday?