THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAMIn Morocco, each year thousands of young girls from poor families are sent to work in houses in the city. They are often ill-treated and exploited. No official numbers exist, but one non-governmental organisation called Dari has counted 23,000 child maids in Casablanca alone. Halima is one of them. When she was 8 years old, her family sent her to Casablanca to work as a maid. Her father had some financial trouble, so he got in touch with an intermediary whose job was to find maids for rich families. The little...
Friday, 28 January 2011
THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM
THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM Traditionally, the idea of a working woman was not accepted by many people; they saw it as a radical change in family life. The reasons were simple: a woman’s place is at home. Who is going to clean, cook, feed the kids and look after them?Batool, a 29-year-old Kuwaiti pharmacist and mother of two children says: "I feel guilty." Now that my eldest daughter is going to school, I’m starting to have second thoughts about being a career woman." She says that when she was a kid, her mother would wake her up...
THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM
THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM Dropping out of school is a serious problem in Morocco. Each year, nearly 200,000 children leave school before completing their primary education. A new government initiative in morocco offers some measures to reduce the number of students who withdraw from school. This initiative is part of an awareness campaign targeting parents.Researchers and government officials largely attribute the phenomenon to the ignorance of poor parents who do not realise the importance of education. Some parents, for example,...
THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM
THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM Morocco’s street children live a difficult life, often filled with harmful drugs and crime. Efforts to reintegrate them into families and schools are somewhat successful but experts say the problem is large and its root lies in poverty and difficult social circumstances.Othmane left his home and school at the age of fourteen to live on the street. He no longer wanted to see his mother fight the daily battle to get bread for his five little siblings and pay for his school expenses. "The street is not a better...
THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM
THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAMThe Economic Commission for Africa estimates that between 1960 and 1989, some 127,000 highly qualified African professionals left Africa. According to the International Organisation for Migration, Africa has been losing 20,000 professionals each year since 1990. This has raised claims that the continent is dying a slow death from brain drain which has financial, institutional, and societal costs. African countries get little return from their investment in higher education, since too many graduated leave or...
THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM
THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM Rachida was born in a rural Moroccan village, Ain Jdid, in 1973. She is married and has four children. Her husband is a seasonal agricultural worker who earns about 700 dhs per month when he works.When and aid organization offered literacy classes in her village, Rachida immediately recognised that an excellent opportunity was suddenly offered to her. The class signalled a new beginning for Rachida -if she took classes, she would be able to read and write, add and subtract, and acquire skills that were...
THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM
THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM Thomas Edison lit up the world with his invention of the electric light. Without him, the world might be a dark place. However, the electric light was not his only invention. He also invented the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and over 1,200 other things. About every two weeks he created something new.The Edisons moved to Michigan when Thomas was seven. Surprisingly, he attended school for only two months. His mother, a former teacher, taught him a few things, but Thomas was mostly self-educated....
THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM
THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM Souad was afraid not to finish her education. The schools were located dozens of kilometers away from her home, and she had no way to get there each day. In addition, her family couldn’t afford to pay her schooling.When Souad about learned a boarding school where students live and study, she jumped at the chance to continue learning. The boarding school in Tighassaline, a small village in the Middle Atlas, was supported by an aid organization and run by a local group, the Rural Girls Scholarship Committee....
THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM
THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM When computers first started to be used on a wide scale, some people predicted that we would spend so long staring at computer screens that we would en up forgetting how to talk to one another. But in fact, the rapid expansion of electronic communication in the 21st century has had the opposite effect. Rather than retreating into themselves, people are using new technology, in particular email and text massaging, to find more and more ways to expand their network of friends.Jane Adams, 23, sends so many...
THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM
THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, was born in 1955 in Seattle, USA, to a wealthy family. His father was a prominent lawyer and his mother a member of the board of directors of two banks. When he was thirteen, he started to become interested in computers and the development of computer software. In 1972, he made his first big profit of 4,200 $when he sold timetable software to his school.Bill Gates went to Harvard University and father doing only three years of study; he stopped going there to set...
THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM
THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM Awatif Morsy will never forget the day she heard that a new school was to open in her village. “Someone came to the house asking for the names of the children who weren’t attending class,’ she recall. “My mother gave them my name. I was so excited. “Like most eight year-olds in the village of Beni shara’an, Awarif’s life until that important day was divided between back-breaking work in the nearby fields or at home. To girls like her, the new school –a single classroom on the ground floor of a converted...
THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM
THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM In a small town in Africa, a young hairdresser named Teresa was given an old sewing machine by her uncle, Jeremiah. She watched as her brother Joseph experimented with the sewing machine and began to design shirts for his friends. There was nothing in the shops that was similar to those shirts and more and more friends asked Joseph to make them a shirt. Teresa began to see a way to make money for the family.As Teresa continued her work in the hairdressing shop, she began to ask people what clothes they would...
THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM
THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAMAs a young girl in India, Neeta Mundhra dreamed of leaving home someday, going to college and getting a job, She didn’t see herself in the traditional role of a married Indian woman, dressed in the simple elegance of a sari (Indian dress) and staying home to manage a household. Then, when she was 21, an arranged marriage steeped in Indian tradition ended up giving Mundhra the untraditional Indian life she wanted – but in Chicago’s Northern suburbs. Neeta’s new life in the United States is a long way from the...
THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM
THE MOROCCAN BACCALAUREATE ENGLISH EXAM The capital city of Venezuela, Caracas, has some of the worst traffic jams in the world. The situation is so bad that psychiatrists have now begun to give advice to commuters about what to do when they are in a traffic jam. The advice includes the following: read a newspaper or listen to music, but not fight with anyone.The number of car owners is Caracas has increased dramatically and this led to blocked motorways and jammed side-streets from early morning till late at night. Entire districts are paralysed...
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