Composition
d’anglais
Période 1,
3ème B
Consignes :
Pas de document autorisé.
Les élèves rédigent sur copie double et
conservent le sujet.
Les élèves répondent avec des phrases
complètes dans la même langue que la question.
L’orthographe et la présentation sont
notés sur 3 points.
Mr. Wormwood, the
Great Car Dealer
Extract
from Matilda, Roald Dahl
Matilda’s parents owned quite a nice
house with three bedrooms upstairs, while on the ground floor there was a
dining-room and a living-room and a kitchen. Her father was a dealer[1]
in second-hand cars and it seemed he did pretty well at it.
-‘Sawdust[2],’
he would say proudly, ‘is one of the great secrets of my success. And it costs
me nothing. I get it free from the sawmill[3].’
-‘What do you use it for?’ Matilda asked him.
-‘Ha!’ the father said. ‘Wouldn’t you like to
know.’
-‘I don’t see how sawdust can help you
to sell second-hand cars, Daddy.’
-‘That’s because you’re an ignorant little twit[4],’
the father said. ‘But I don’t mind telling young Mike here about it seeing as
he’ll be joining me in the business one day.’
Ignoring Matilda, he turned to his
son and said, ‘I’m always glad to buy a car when some fool has been
crashing the gears[5]
so badly they’re all worn out and rattle[6]
like mad. I get it cheap. Then all I do is mix a lot of sawdust with the
oil in the gear-box and it runs as sweet as a nut[7].’
-‘How long will it run like that before it
starts rattling again?’ Matilda asked him.
-‘Long enough for the buyer[8]
to get a good distance away,’ the father said, grinning[9].
‘About a hundred miles.’
-‘But that’s dishonest, Daddy,’ Matilda said.
‘It’s cheating.’
-‘No-one ever got rich being honest,’ the
father said. ‘Customers are there
to be diddled[10].’
Roald Dahl, Matilda (London: Puffin
Books, 2007)
I.
Vocabulary/grammar: 10pts
1) Explain the words’ construction and translate them. 6pts
Ex: happily = happi/ly = happy +
ly : joyeusement
Dealer, sawdust, sawmill, badly,
buyer, dishonest
2)
“Customers are
there to be diddled” l Expliquez cette phrase, expliquez sa voix, qui est
le sujet de l’action, qui subit l’action. Transformez cette phrase à la voix
active. 4pts
II.
Text
comprehension:
11pts
1)
What genre of document is it? (Letter, email, novel
extract or magazine article). 1pt
2) How many characters are there in the
excerpt? 1pt
3) Who is the hero(in) of the story? 1
pt
4) What is the name of Matilda’s
parents? Of her brother? 2pts
5) What’s Mr Wormwood’s job? 1pt
6) Expliquez
comment Mr Wormwood transforme les voitures. 1pt
7) Acording to Mr Wormwood, what is
Mike’s future job? Quote the text. 2pt
8) Translate into French the expression
« No one ever got rich being
honest ». 2pts
III.
Expression : 6pts
Imagine you are Matilda and give advices to Mr Wormwood, use the passive
voice (10lines). 6pts
IV.
Grammar: 10pts
1)
Write comparative sentences.
1 My house
(look/big) yours.
2 Billy’s
dog (bark/loud) Eddy’s.
3 My son
(sleep/good) his.
4 Iron
(be/hard) wood.
5 Flowers
(smell/nice) perfume.
2)
Transform these sentences, from the active to
the passive or the passive to the active.
1) I was
insulted by my friends at school.
2) Robert
will repair the car.
3) Chris
wrote this book.
4) The
camera was broken by the children.
5) The lake
was dried by the sun.
[1] To deal : to sell
[2] Sawdust : saw : scie +
dust :poussière
[3] Mill : usine
[4] Twit : fool, idiot
[5] Gears : roues dentées
du levier de vitesse (boîte de vitesse)
[6] To rattle : to make
noise
[7] As sweet as a nut: very well
[8] Buyer : customer, client
[9] To grin : to smile
[10] To diddle: to dupe, to fool, to cheat
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