méthode par scénarios · Anglais
Les 44 scénarios de l’épreuve d’anglais
Chaque exercice du bac déroule une trajectoire logique récurrente. Reconnaître le scénario aide à choisir une démarche : idée directrice, exercice modèle corrigé, automatismes et pièges pour chacun.
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EDU
Education, Lifelong Learning and Careers
8 scénariosEDU-AVirtual Schools and the Emphatic DO
Virtual schools (or cyber schools) offer flexibility, safety from bullying, and personalized schedules. However, they also present drawbacks like lack of physical communication, eye strain, and potential addiction.
Signature : distance learning
EDU-BEducation for All: Overcoming Barriers with 'Too... To' and 'Unless'
Many children in disadvantaged areas are denied their basic right to education due to extreme poverty. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) like UNICEF and the World Food Program (WFP) work to provide nutritious meals and raise funds.
Signature : too + adjective + to
EDU-CLifelong Learning and Ability-Based Grouping
Modern educational reforms shift away from rigid age-based structures. In schools like Bridgemary, students are grouped by ability rather than age to tackle underachievement.
Signature : adulthood
EDU-DGuided writing: Healthy School Campaign paragraph
Session model: 2018 contrôle Writing task 1 (guided, 4 marks). The official paper gives a table (Foundation, Organizers, Purpose, Target schools) and asks for a short coherent paragraph.
Signature : healthy school campaign guided writing
EDU-EReading: road-schooling and student-led learning
Session model: 2019 principale Reading (12 marks) — Meeks family road-schooling article.
Signature : reading comprehension school education student learning
EDU-FFree writing: a 12-line reply to a reader who wants to go back to studying
Task 2 is worth eight marks and is not always an article: the paper also asks for a reply. A reader writes to an advice column, and the candidate answers as the columnist.
Signature : « As an advice columnist, you received the following letter from a reader » ; « Write a 12-line reply to her/ him suggesting three pieces of advice » ; « Adherence to task and communicative effectiveness »
EDU-GFree writing: a 12-line article, post or e-mail on schooling and careers
Task 2 of the Writing section regularly leaves the classroom to ask about the school system itself or about the working life that follows it: online learning against face-to-face classes, dropping out, a stressful school, a career plan…
Signature : « Write a 12-line article for your school magazine in which you give your opinion about online learning » ; « Write your headmaster an e-mail to express your choice and support it with at least three sound arguments » ; « write a post on your blog in which you support the mother’s point of view » ; « you feel concerned with the issue of career planning. Write a 12-line article »
EDU-HGuided writing: a five-line biography from notes
Task 1 of the Writing section sometimes replaces the campaign table with the life of a person: a playwright, the first Tunisian woman doctor, a Nobel-prize chemist.
Signature : « Use the notes below to write a short biography of » ; « Use the notes below to write a five-line paragraph about Tawhida Ben Sheikh » ; « write a five-line biography of the Tunisian chemist »
TEC
Technology and Invention
8 scénariosTEC-AReading Inventions: Lasers, Microscopes and the Machine Age
Module 3 presents scientists whose inventions change what a machine can show us: Ahmed Zewail’s rapid laser technique films molecules during chemical reactions, and James Hillier’s electron microscope magnifies objects thousands of times.
Signature : invention
TEC-BICT Language: Browse, Netiquette and Inventive Word Families
Module 3 lists internet and ICT vocabulary (browse, download, search engine, netiquette, portal) next to invention word families (invent / invention / inventor / inventive).
Signature : ICT
TEC-CWriting on Technology: Games, Machines and Responsible Use
Module 3 interviews creative minds behind interactive machines such as the PlayStation and lists skills of inventors (passion, perseverance, dedication).
Signature : technology
TEC-DFree writing: Wise Use of Technology article
Session model: 2017 contrôle Writing task 2 (8 marks) — twelve-line school-blog article entitled “Wise Use of Technology” on excessive mobile use and effects on health and social life. Free / semi-controlled production.
Signature : wise use of technology article
TEC-EFree writing: arguing online about inventions and screens
The eight-mark task often gives a statement about technology and asks for an article that takes a side.
Signature : « Write a 12-line article … entitled » ; « Scientific inventions are meant to serve humans » ; « providing at least three arguments to support your opinion »
TEC-GGuided writing: an invention or a device from notes
When Task 1 of the Writing section is about technology, the table describes an object: a household robot, a student satellite, a device with its designer, its features and its purpose.
Signature : « Use the notes in the table to write a 5-line paragraph about “The Assistant Robot” » ; « Use the notes below to write a four-line paragraph about Challenge-1, the first Tunisian satellite »
TEC-HGuided writing: a short report on a chart about digital life
A rarer form of Task 1 replaces the notes with figures: a graph of virtual-school enrolments, a pie chart of the effects of cyberbullying.
Signature : « The following graph is about … Write a 5-line report in which you comment on the figures and mention the reasons » ; « Use the data in the pie chart below to write a 4-line paragraph about »
TEC-IReading a technology article: the bac chain, from gist to personal answer
On a technology text, the reading part of the bac is a chain of closed items in a near-fixed order: the main idea, false statements to disprove with ONE detail from the named paragraph, a gapped passage or a short list, words meaning…
Signature : « Tick (✓) the most appropriate option » ; « For each of the following statements, pick out ONE detail from the text showing that it is FALSE » ; « Complete the gapped passage below with three words from paragraph 2 » ; « Pick out words / expressions meaning nearly the same as » ; « What do the underlined words in the text refer to? » ; « Give a personal justified answer to the following question »
HOL
Holidaying, Travel and the Arts
6 scénariosHOL-AReading Holidays: Package Tours and Freedom to Travel
Module 1 contrasts package tours with freer forms of holidaying: organisation, fewer formalities and guided culture versus limited freedom and possible disappointment when the travel agency’s promises do not match the real trip.
Signature : package tour
HOL-BLanguage of Travel: Used to, Parallelism and Booking Words
Holiday modules recycle grammar that fits travel stories: used to for past holiday habits, parallel structure in lists of activities, and booking vocabulary (book, reserve, check in/out, package tour, destination).
Signature : book
HOL-CWriting Travel: Art Shows, Festivals and Space Tourism Debates
Module 1 links holidaying with art shows and even space tourism: festivals, venues, booking seats, and the debate about expensive space trips for the well-to-do.
Signature : art show
HOL-DGuided writing: tourism festival awards paragraph
Session model: 2017 contrôle Writing task 1 — table → 5-line guided paragraph (4 marks). Official criteria on that paper's grid: Efficient use of prompts (2) + Linguistic and mechanical accuracy (2).
Signature : guided writing tourism festival awards
HOL-EReading on travel and tourism: the bac chain with a « pick out two » item
A reading text about holidays, travel or tourism is examined with the same closed chain as any other: the main idea, false statements disproved by ONE detail from the named paragraph, a « pick out TWO … » list from one paragraph, words…
Signature : « Tick (✓) the most appropriate option » ; « For each of the following statements, pick out ONE detail from the text showing that it is FALSE » ; « Complete the gapped passage below with three words from paragraph 2 » ; « Pick out words / expressions meaning nearly the same as » ; « What do the underlined words in the text refer to? » ; « Give a personal justified answer to the following question »
HOL-FRecommending a holiday experience: tell the stay or the trip, then give reasons a reader can count
Task 2 sometimes asks you to turn a good holiday memory into a recommendation: a blog post about a hotel where you spent three days with your family, giving at least three reasons to recommend it (scientific paper, 2023 contrôle); a letter…
Signature : « you decided to write a post on your blog to describe your stay and share your experience » ; « State at least three reasons why you would recommend this hotel to your friends » ; « telling him/her about the good experience you had and recommending the same destination » ; « Write her/him a 12-line letter to express your gratitude and describe how … »
GLO
Global Issues, Culture and Society
10 scénariosGLO-AReading the Planet: Climate, Environment and Global Warming
Global Issues materials define global warming and climate change, link car use to pollution, and present ecology solutions (energy saving, eco-driving, reduce-reuse-recycle).
Signature : global warming
GLO-BLanguage for Ecology: Eco-driving, R.R.R. and Global Solutions
Programme reviews list practical ecology language: reduce-reuse-recycle, energy saving, eco-driving rules (steady speed, tyre pressure, avoid useless car trips), and the roles of individuals, governments and the international community.
Signature : eco-driving
GLO-CWriting Global Citizenship: Culture, Society and Shared Duties
Global Issues writing joins environment with wider society: rich and poor countries, cultural exchange, and controversial world problems (pollution, war, unfair development).
Signature : global citizenship
GLO-DFree writing: plastic bags and the environment article
Session model: 2018 contrôle Writing task 2 (8 marks) — twelve-line school-magazine article on plastic bags in Tunisia: threats + solutions. Free production.
Signature : plastic bags Tunisia environment article
GLO-EReading: school campaign against single-use plastic
Session models: 2017 principale (Anna Hankins plastic-bottle campaign) + 2018 contrôle reading item set.
Signature : reading environment global society culture campaign
GLO-FGuided writing: a table about a global campaign into a paragraph
Task 1 of the Writing section is never free: a table of notes has to become a short connected paragraph. Every prompt must appear, nothing may be invented, and the four marks are split between the use of the prompts and the language.
Signature : « Use the information in the table below to write a four-line paragraph » ; « Use the information below to write a four-line paragraph to introduce » ; « Appropriate use of the prompts (2 marks) »
GLO-IReading on the environment: the bac chain with a two-paragraph gapped summary
An environment text on the bac is read through the same closed chain: the main idea, false statements disproved by ONE detail, a gapped summary whose words come from one or two named paragraphs, words meaning nearly the same, reference…
Signature : « Tick (✓) the most appropriate option » ; « For each of the following statements, pick out ONE detail from the text showing that it is FALSE » ; « Complete the gapped passage below with three words from paragraph 2 » ; « Pick out words / expressions meaning nearly the same as » ; « What do the underlined words in the text refer to? » ; « Give a personal justified answer to the following question »
GLO-GSport writing: a 10-line post/article — bad effects + at least three ways, OR an opinion/preference with at least three sound arguments
In the Sport paper, Writing is ONE free task of about ten lines worth 8 marks (5 marks in 2015 and 2016), with no guided paragraph before it.
Signature : « Write a ten-line post for your school webpage in which you state the bad effects of … and suggest at least three ways to face it » ; « warn them against … by stating at least three of its dangers » ; « express your opinion, supporting it with at least three sound arguments » ; « Which of the two options would you opt for? » ; « state your preference, supporting it with at least three sound arguments »
GLO-HBrain drain / working abroad: argue a position or advise someone who hesitates
The emigration of skilled people — brain drain — comes back in every section: as the free writing topic (Techniques 2016 principale, 2019 and 2023 contrôle; Sport 2015 and 2019 principale, 2021 contrôle; Lettres 2021 principale), as a…
Signature : « Brain drain has long been considered as damaging to the growth of developing countries. Are you for or against this opinion? » ; « Do you think these people are doing good to their countries or rather causing them harm? » ; « has been offered a job in a foreign country … advise him/her not to miss this opportunity » ; « convince him/her to decline this offer as his/her country and family need him/her » ; « He is hesitant about signing the contract … help him take the right decision »
GLO-JEngaged citizenship: a twelve-line post suggesting three practical ideas, inspired by a quote
Some task-2 prompts ask you to mobilise your readers rather than to argue: a post, an article or a speech that proposes concrete actions and calls people to take them.
Signature : « Motivated by the core message of this quote, write a twelve-line Facebook post in which you suggest three practical ideas on how to be a responsible, engaged citizen » ; « write a 10-line article for the local newspaper to call for an action plan » ; « in which you encourage your school mates to take part in » ; « suggesting three measures to put into action »
LAN
Language: gap-fill, right option, tense and form
4 scénariosLAN-AFill in the blanks with words from the box
The Language section includes a short paragraph and a box of words with extra entries. Each word is used once; the distractors are near-synonyms or the wrong part of speech.
Signature : « Fill in the blanks with 6 words from the box » ; « Fill in the blanks with 7 words from the box below » ; « Fill in the blanks with six words from the list below » ; « There are two extra words »
LAN-BCircle the right option
The second or third language task offers, inside a short paragraph, groups of three options in brackets: a verb form, a preposition, a derived word, a collocation. Only one option fits both grammar and collocation.
Signature : « Circle the right option. (3 marks) » ; « Circle the right alternative. (3 marks) » ; « Circle the correct option »
LAN-CPut the bracketed words in the right tense or form
The last language task gives a paragraph with words in brackets: a verb to conjugate (tense fixed by a time marker or by the sequence of tenses), or a base word to derive (noun, adjective, adverb, comparative, negative prefix).
Signature : « Supply the right tense or form of the bracketed words. (4 marks) » ; « Put the bracketed words in the right tense and / or form. (3 marks) » ; « Put the bracketed words in the correct tense or form »
LAN-DThe whole Language exercise: box, brackets and options in one block
On the Sport paper the whole Language part is ONE 10-mark exercise: a box gap-fill (7 of 9 words, 3.5 marks), bracketed words in the right tense or form (3 marks) and « circle the right option » (3.5 marks), each on its own short passage.
Signature : « II. LANGUAGE (10 marks) » ; « Fill in the blanks with 7 words from the box below. (3.5 marks) » ; « Put the bracketed words in the right tense or form. (3 marks) » ; « Circle the right option. (3.5 marks) » ; « III. LANGUAGE (6 marks) »
REA
Reading comprehension: the closed items
8 scénariosREA-AFalse statements: pick out ONE detail from the named paragraph
The bac never asks you to decide whether a statement is true: it tells you that it is false and names the paragraph.
Signature : « For each of the following statements, pick out ONE detail from the text showing that it is FALSE » ; « For each of the following false statements, pick out one full sentence from the text showing that it is false » ; « The statement is false. Correct it with one detail from paragraph 4 » ; « Correct these false statements with precise details from the text »
REA-BReference words: resolve the underlined item to its antecedent
An underlined word is a pointer: the answer is the words it points back to, copied from the text and precise enough to identify one person, thing, place, time or idea.
Signature : « What do the words underlined in the text refer to? » ; « What do the underlined words in the text refer to? » ; « What does the underlined word refer to? » ; « Who/What do the words underlined in paragraph 2 refer to? » ; « (paragraph 2) refers to … »
REA-CWhole-text items: the gist or title MCQ (item 1) and the personal justified answer (last item)
Two 1-mark items open and close almost every reading block. The first asks which option sums up the whole text (main idea, title, quote used as a title, message). The last asks for your own position with a reason.
Signature : « Tick the most appropriate alternative. The text is mainly about a woman who: » ; « Tick (✓) the most appropriate quote that could serve as a title for the text » ; « Tick (√) the statement that best conveys the message of the text » ; « Give a personal justified answer to the following question » ; « If I were …, I (would / would not) … because … »
REA-DOne-word retrieval: the gapped summary and « words meaning nearly the same as »
Both items pay for one word (or one short expression) copied from a named paragraph, and both use the same move.
Signature : « Complete the gapped passage below with three words from paragraph 2. One blank, ONE word » ; « Complete the following summary with 4 words from paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 » ; « Fill in each blank with one word from paragraph 2 » ; « Find in the text words meaning nearly the same as » ; « Pick out words from the text meaning nearly the same as » ; « Find a word in the text that nearly means »
REA-ERetrieval grids: fact table, « pick out two … », cause–effect chart, dates, phases and flow charts
The 2-to-4-mark retrieval slot keeps changing its surface — a fact table, « list / pick out two … », a cause–effect chart, dates to match, phases to reorder, a flow chart — but the key always pays for the same thing…
Signature : « Complete the table with information about … (focus on paragraph 1) » ; « Focus on paragraph 3 and pick out the two reasons … » ; « Complete this cause-effect chart with reference to paragraphs 1, 2 and 4 » ; « Match the dates in Column A with the corresponding events in Column B » ; « Reorder the phases of … » ; « Complete the flow chart below with information from paragraphs 1 and 3 »
REA-FInference MCQs: the expression-in-context item and the two character adjectives
Two reading items ask you to infer rather than to find: what an expression means in its context, and which two adjectives best describe a character. Neither answer is printed in the text, so neither can be copied.
Signature : « Tick (✓) the option that best explains the following expressions » ; « What do the underlined words / expressions mean? » ; « … (paragraph 2) nearly means: » ; « Circle the two adjectives that best describe … » ; « Circle one adjective that best describes … »
REA-GFull reading block: six chained items on one bac-length text (12 marks)
Part I of the paper is one adapted press text of about 1,500 to 2,400 characters (three to five numbered paragraphs, usually a true story of adversity, initiative or a change of life) followed by a fixed chain of six or seven items worth…
Signature : « I- COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS (12 marks) » ; « Tick (✓) the most appropriate option » ; « Complete the gapped passage below with three words from paragraph 2 » ; « For each of the following statements, pick out ONE detail from the text showing that it is FALSE » ; « Focus on paragraph 1 and pick out the two reasons … » ; « Pick out words / expressions meaning nearly the same as »
REA-HLettres full reading block: seven items, 15 marks, with a chronology or cause–effect grid
The Lettres reading block is longer than the other sections': 15 marks and seven items on one text of about 2,000 to 2,400 characters. Three things change.
Signature : « COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS (15 marks) » ; « For each of the following statements, pick out ONE detail from the text showing that it is false. (4 marks) » ; « Fill in each blank with ONE word from paragraphs 3 and 4 » ; « Complete the flow chart below … » ; « complete the table below with important dates and events … » ; « Complete this cause-effect chart … »