THE MONEY TRAIN. Répondez sur la copie d`examen

DIPLOME NATIONAL DU BREVET
Epreuve : ANGLAIS
Mock examination
Devoir commun 3e
Session 2003
Friday 31st January 2003 Durée : 1 h 30
Collège Alain Mark :
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THE MONEY TRAIN.
On the night of August 7th 1963, a mail train left Glasgow for London. On
the train were letters and also lots of money for London banks. At 3 a.m., 16
robbers stopped the train and stole £ 2,600,000. Next morning, everyone was
talking about the most daring* British crime in history : The Great Train
Robbery.
The criminals injured the train driver, terrified the Post Office workers on
the train and stole the money (the equivalent of 29 million pounds today). They
thought that it was the perfect crime but they made one major mistake. They told
the workers ‘Don’t move for half an hour’.
The police immediately started searching isolated houses in the region
because they were sure the criminals were less than 30 minutes away by car.
They were right. The robbers heard about the police action on the radio and
escaped, although each man had to carry £ 150,000 in cash. They didn’t have
time to clean the house where they were hiding and they left important clues.
(…) The police found the mail bags from the train and some money in the
robbers’ hideout. The 16 men were all professional criminals, so the police knew
their fingerprints. Although the robbers liked extravagant lives, they had to hide
and couldn’t spend their new fortunes. One by one they made mistakes. By
January1964, the police had nine of the train robbers in Prison.
Seven robbers had never been arrested, and two escaped from prison.
They left the country, but after a year or two, when they had no more money, or
wanted to see their families, they returned to England. They couldn’t work, and
no criminals would associate with them. They finally went to the police and
went to prison. All except one…
Adapted from : Easy Speakeasy, March 1996.
Daring : audacieux
Répondez sur la copie d’examen
Remettez le sujet de devoir au professeur avant de quitter la salle !
I. COMPREHENSION DU TEXTE
A. Ecrivez en anglais si les phrases sont vraies (Right) ou fausses (Wrong).
Puis, justifiez à l’aide d’une expression ou d’une phrase du texte.
( N.B : Sans justification, la réponse est nulle)
1. The robbery took place on an American Train.
2. The Great Train Robbery is an invented story.
3. The robbers left cash in the house.
4. The robbers had extravagant lives.
5. The Police arrested fifteen robbers.
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B. Répondez en formulant une phrase complète.
(N.B : Toute réponse incomplète sera considérée comme nulle)
1. How long ago did the robbery take place ?
2. How many people were there ?
3. How much did they steal ?
4. Where did they hide ?
5. Did they lead fabulous lives ? Why ?
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C. Trouvez les mots ou expressions équivalents dans le texte.
1. Blessèrent :
2. Indices :
3. Empreintes digitales :
4. La cachette des voleurs :
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II. COMPETENCE LINGUISTIQUE
A. Ecrivez en toutes lettres les dates ou nombres suivants :
1. 1963 :
2. £ 2,600,000 :
3. £ 150,000 :
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B. Ecrivez les phrases en mettant le verbe à la forme qui convient :
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1. In 1963, robbers ……(attack) a mail train while it ……(go) to London.
2. That night, they ……(wait) for the train till three o’clock in the morning.
3. The following morning, while people ……(read) the newspapers, they ……(learn) the great
news.
4. The police……(catch) some criminals six months later ; but two of them …(run) away.
5. Today, people ……(remember) it as the most daring British robbery.
6. When some robbers ……(come back) to their country, they ……(not/find) any job.
7. One of them …(not/be) in Great-Britain and he …(live) abroad peacefully.
C. Réécrivez les phrases suivantes en utilisant ago
1. The most magnificent diamond was stolen the day before yesterday.
2. Three men robbed the jeweller’s shop last July.
3. The police arrested the criminal at 7.00 a.m.
4. The Great Train Robbery happened in 1963.
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III. EXPRESSION ECRITE
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Rédigez en anglais un texte d’environ 75 mots.
Indiquez le nombre de mots à la fin de votre travail.
Vous choisirez l’un des deux sujets suivants :
Sujet 1 : One of the robbers has never been arrested by the police and he is peacefully living in the
Canaries.
Imagine and compare the life he is leading at present with the one he used to lead before he
robbed the train.
Sujet 2 : Imagine the end of the article.
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