Contrôle Continu – Partiel Correction

ELA TR 111 – Terminologie économique L1 S1
Groupe 3 – S.Raineri
Contrôle Continu – Partiel Correction
1. FACE THE PRESS (5 points)
1. Coffee hits five-year low: Either the production or the price of coffee is at its lowest
level in five years.
2. Ireland - Standard Rate of VAT to Increase by 2%: The Irish standard rate of Value
Added Tax is to increase by 2% in the near future.
3. European governments are taking steps to reduce air pollution due to carbon
emissions from aircrafts.
4. Stolen Painting Found by Tree: a stolen painting has been either found beside a tree
or by Mr Tree.
5. Dealers will Hear Car Talk at Noon: A discussion held between cars (!) will be heard
by car dealers at noon, or, more likely, Car dealers will listen to a talk about cars at
noon. (Note: “dealers” here mean “salesmen”)
2.
FIGURES & GRAPHS (5 POINTS)
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1. The ebooks curve has been steadily increasing since February 2009.
2. Adult paperback sales reached an all-time low/minimum in February 2011.
3. In September 2009 adult hardcover sales peaked/reached a peak.
4. Adult hardcover sales then plummeted/fell dramatically for 4 months.
Suggestions for graph commentary:
- reacting to ebook sales, accounting for the steady and/or slow progress, depending
on your views.
- reacting to paperback sales, explaining why they have remained higher than ebooks
until Feb 2011 (considering costs involved, of course)
- reacting to the wild fluctuations of hardcover sales, making hypotheses to account
for the peaks observed (September releases, best-seller releases, Christmas, Easter
as gift-buying moments, etc.)
3. TRANSLATE (4 POINTS)
1. He worked for 15 years as a leader writer/editorialist for a widely-circulated/widely-read
weekly before becoming the chief editor of his own magazine.
2. You can find the latest news/information on the euro crisis in the financial column on page 25,
right before the book reviews.
3. In response to the comments made by some participants, the guest has substantiated his
claim by quoting/citing a few extra figures. Some people were convinced and finally sided
with him / admitted (that) he was right.
4. In 2010 an increase in smartphone sales of around 55% is expected, which is 10% more
than the previous forecasts released earlier this year.
4.
OPINION (6 POINTS)
Your essays were graded taking into account grammatical and lexical accuracy (Ex. Is the
present perfect/preterite correctly used? for/since complements? Is the new vocabulary
covered in class integrated?), variety of ideas and examples given, organization of ideas.
1. The internet has brought in an age of over-information.
 involved the following questions: What is over-information? Can there be such a thing?
What are the possible effects of over-information on the quality of information, but also on
internet users and the way they handle it?
2. Journalism should aim at objectivity
 involved the following questions: Are journalists objective? Is it possible to be objective at
all? Is it desirable? Is giving purely factual information the job of journalists? Are certain
kinds of journalism more objective than others?
3. 3. A graph is worth a thousand words.
 involved the following questions: what are the pros and cons of graphs? What type of
information is it more suited to? In what ways may a graph be confusing? In what ways may
a graph be misleading? What should be done to assess the value of a graph?