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The document discusses the pervasive role of mobile phones in modern life, highlighting their use for communication and entertainment. It emphasizes the shift from traditional social skills to advanced communication skills, particularly among the youth, and notes the societal reliance on mobile technology. While acknowledging the benefits of mobile phones, it also critiques the obsession with them as fashion items and the loss of control over their usage.

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Text About Means of Communication

The document discusses the pervasive role of mobile phones in modern life, highlighting their use for communication and entertainment. It emphasizes the shift from traditional social skills to advanced communication skills, particularly among the youth, and notes the societal reliance on mobile technology. While acknowledging the benefits of mobile phones, it also critiques the obsession with them as fashion items and the loss of control over their usage.

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TEXT TO BE STUDIED

Class : TSECO LEKT ENGLISH

Text: Mobile phones


We use mobile phones for communication, but they have also become entertainment
centers, containing games, music, video, even connecting us to the Web and more. To make
full use of your mobile phone these days, you need advanced communication skills. These
days we let mobiles rule our lives. We turn them off reluctantly for meeting or in cinemas
and theatres, and check them regularly. If a call comes, all too often we take it and never
mind what else is happening.

Thanks to mobiles, we now believe that being able to keep in touch excuses lateness. The
social skills we once took for politeness have been replaced by communication skills. Many
of us act “especially the young” as if being permanently connected is a good thing (you can
instant message on mobiles and access social networks). We have been seduced into the
technology society.

Mobile phones are a good thing; their benefits outweigh their faults, and we can hardly
undo progress. But we have made icons of them. We buy new models like they were fashion
items; want all the latest gadgets on them, even though we may never use them. We are
slaves to our mobiles.

Questions: (20pts)
I. Reading comprehension questions: (5pts)
A. Multiple choice questions: Copy down the complete sentence containing the
correct answer (1pt)
1. Mobile phones have become entertainment centers because they provide us ……
a) communication b) music
c) excuses d) politeness

2. Mobile phones’ benefits outweigh their faults, means that their benefits are ……
their faults
a) as important as b) nearly as important as
c) less important than d) more important than
B. True/false statements: Copy down the true sentences and correct the false ones
(2pts)
1. People who don’t have advanced communication skills make a limited use of their
mobile phone these days
2. People are happy to turn off their phones in cinemas and theatres.
3. You can instant access social networks when you are permanently connected.
4. According to the last sentence, mobile phones have taken control of our lives.
C. Answer the following questions: (2pts)
1. What do people allow mobile phones to do these days?
2. What have replaced the social skills today?
II. Language (10 pts):
A. Match each word from the list on the left with its synonym on the right (2pts)

A B
Reluctant any interconnected group or system
Seduce not wanting to do something
Outweigh attract someone
Networks exceed in importance
B. Put the transitive verbs into the passive voice (2pts)
1. People buy new phones every day.
2. Awa cooked the dinner after school yesterday.
3. They have done the homeworks.
4. He can speak English.
C. Sidy complains to his friend Sory because he didn't invite him to his birthday party .
Build up the dialogue (2pts).
Sidy: ………………………………………………..
Sory: ………………………………………………………..
A. Translate into English (2pts)

Le téléphone portable fait aujourd’hui parti de notre vie et nous lie avec le monde entier. Il
nous est utile tous les jours à l’école, mais aussi au travail.
A. Translate into French (2 pts):

From “We use mobile phones for communication ……… “to” the Web and more.”
III. Composition: Choose only one topic (5pts)
A. In a well-organized essay talk about some advantages and drawbacks of modern
means of communication
B. Saran Keita, is a student in TESCO, Lycée privé Mariam Dembélé de Segou (LPMMS).
She has received a new tablet computer from her uncle. She writes a postcard to her
cousin Souleymane diallo, a student in TLL, Lycée Ibrahim Diakité de Niono (LIDIAK)
to tell him the good news. Write Saran’s postcard.

Good Luck !!!

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