Compréhension de texte : Read the following text and answer the questions.

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Brinawa is a cattle station deep in Australia’s great Outback. Along with an adjoining family holding, the station covers about 300 square miles, running 5,000 Brahman cattle under a scorching sun. Brinawa is home for the Clarke family: Les, 32, Annie, 36, and their children Julie, 11, Gordon, 10, Daniel, 8, and Sam, 5. Their life in the bush is not easy. The work is hard, the hours are long. Much of the time, they are alone.

Gradually, though, the isolation that has long been the heartbreak of the Outback is being conquered. Radio brought quick communications, planes shrank distances, refrigeration gave a longer life to food. State governments created special units to educate the Outback’s children through correspondence courses, and in 1951, supplemented programs with an unusual and perhaps unique service: the School of the Air. So the Clarke children, like hundreds of other youngsters scattered across Australia’s empty interior and along the less populated parts of its coastline, attend school in a classroom with no teacher, are taught by a teacher with no classroom.

The system is extraordinary. The School of the Air provides professional explanations and personal guidance. There are other
advantages. Says Annie Clarke: "It brings social contact, which can be so important for children battling isolation and loneliness. It is a comfort for them to know that they are not alone, that there are other children just like them out there."

That is why every weekday morning, the children need little prodding to go to school, so to speak. They take their places in whatever room in their home contains the HF transceiver1. They put on their headsets to catch the words that come crackling from teachers who are addressing a studio microphone that may be 300 miles away. The youngsters can also hear the contributions of their fellow students and participate in "classroom" discussions. Says Annie: "This provides the competition which is so necessary for the children to sharpen their skills, something they could never get otherwise."

Australia has twelve Schools of the Air. Each serves a huge area, up to 250,000 square miles, as large as entire countries in Europe. The schools reach children in cattle ranches and in mining camps, the sons and daughters of railway workers and lighthouse keepers, fencing contractors and opal diggers.

The Queensland government, which runs three Schools of the Air, began a bold experiment this year. In an attempt to add a new dimension to radio and correspondence teaching, the government introduced space-age technology into the system, using a satellite to beam out visual presentations in support of the written and spoken word.

1) What would be the best title for the texts; choose one among the following :
a. Life in Australia;
b. The School of the Air;
c. Children in Australia;
d. Isolation in Australia;
e. Life in the Australian outback.

2)What would your best definition of "the outback" be? Choose one from the following.
a. a densely populated area;
b. an urban region;
c. a rural area;
d. a rural area that is not densely populated.

3) Say if it is right or wrong and justify your answer by quoting from the text.
a. In the Australian Outback, children go to a regular school everyday. (2 different justifications)
b. The school system causes a lot of problems in the Australian Outback. (2 justifications)
c. The area served by the system is very small.

Paragraphs 1 and 2
1) Find an equivalent of the word "Outback".
2) Say if it is right or wrong and justify your answer by quoting from the text.
a. The Clarke family has an easy life in Brinawa.
b. The Clarke family has a lot of friends and meets many people;
c. Progress has made life easier in the Outback. (Give 4 elements to justify)


Paragraphs 3 and 4
Answer the questions briefly in your own words. You may also quote the text.
3) Give 2 advantages of the School of the air.
4) What are the differences with a "normal" class?
5) What are the similarities with a "normal" class?
6) What equipment do the students need?

Paragraph 5
Compare the following summary with paragraph 5. Find the 5 mistakes and correct them.
Australia has eight schools of the air . Those schools serve regions that are just smaller than some European countries. The government
of Victoria runs five schools and plans to use the GPS to replace the radio and correspondence teaching

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Voici mes réponses:

1)b. The School of the Air;
2)a. a densely populated area;
3)a:????????
b:????????
c:) c :wrong : Australia has twelve Schools of the Air. Each serves a huge area, up to 250,000 square miles, as large as entire countries in Europe

Partie 2:
1) isolation
2)a :wrong : Their life in the bush is not easy. The work is hard, the hours are long.
B:wrong: Much of the time, they are alone. Gradually, though, the isolation that has long been the heartbreak of the Outback is being conquered.

C: right: - Radio brought quick communications
-planes shrank distances
-refrigeration gave a longer life to food
-State governments created special units to educate the Outback’s children through correspondence courses.

Paragraphs 3 and 4
3) ) - The School of the Air provides professional explanations and personal guidance.
- It brings social contact, which can be so important for children battling isolation and loneliness. It is a comfort for them to know that they are not alone, that there are other children just like them out there

4) The difference from a regular classroom and that children study at home at home in any room and all alone

5) The children studied with HF. the similarity is that children may also be competition between them and at the same time listen to the explanations of the teachers.

6) Students need a HF transceiver.

7) Australia has twelve Schools of the Air. Those schools serve regions as large as entire countries in Europe. The government of Queensland runs three schools plans to use the GPS to replace the radio and correspondence teaching

Merci.