📝 BAC Exam 2011 — English — Foreign Languages Stream
Duration: 3 hours — Coefficient: 3 — Stream: Foreign Languages
📌 Text:
Youth unemployment is one of the most pressing challenges facing the world today. Millions of young people, despite having qualifications and skills, cannot find jobs. This situation has serious consequences not only for individuals but also for society as a whole. It leads to frustration, social exclusion, and in some cases, political instability. The causes are complex: lack of experience, mismatch between education and labor market needs, and slow economic growth. To address this problem, governments need to invest in vocational training, support entrepreneurship, and create an environment that encourages job creation.
— Adapted from a report on youth employment
📌 I – Reading Comprehension (14 points)
- Global understanding: What is the main problem discussed in the text?
- Detailed understanding: Answer the following questions:
- What are the consequences of youth unemployment? Mention three.
- What are the causes of youth unemployment according to the text?
- What solutions does the author propose?
- Vocabulary:
- Find in the text words that mean: “urgent” (paragraph 1), “disagreement” (paragraph 2).
- Give the opposite of: “unemployment” (paragraph 1), “slow” (paragraph 2).
- Use the word “challenge” in a sentence of your own.
- Grammar:
- “Youth unemployment is one of the most pressing challenges.” Rewrite using “as…as”.
- “Governments need to invest in vocational training.” What is the function of “to invest”?
📌 II – Written Expression (06 points)
Topic: What advice would you give to a young person who has just graduated and is looking for a job? Write a short paragraph of about 10-12 lines.
✅ Model Answers / الحل النموذجي
🔹 I – Reading Comprehension
- Main problem: Youth unemployment and its consequences.
- Detailed understanding:
- (1) Frustration, (2) social exclusion, (3) political instability.
- (1) Lack of experience, (2) mismatch between education and labor market, (3) slow economic growth.
- (1) Invest in vocational training, (2) support entrepreneurship, (3) encourage job creation.
- Vocabulary:
- “pressing” = urgent ; “mismatch” = disagreement
- Opposite of “unemployment” = employment ; Opposite of “slow” = rapid/fast
- Example: “Finding a solution to climate change is a global challenge.”
- Grammar:
- “No other challenge is as pressing as youth unemployment.”
- “To invest” is an infinitive expressing purpose/necessity.
مدونة التربية و التعليم في الجزائر – دروس، فروض، نتائج امتحانات مدونة التربية والتعليم في الجزائر | تحضير الدروس، فروض واختبارات، نتائج البكالوريا وBEM، مسابقات التوظيف، والتوجيه المدرسي للطلاب وأولياء الأمور.