منتديات الجزائر التربوية التعليمية

الاتحاد · #1 4th April 2008, 04:50 PM

Anti-Corruption Education

Education is central in preventing corruption. Even clear laws and regulations and well-designed institutions will not be able to prevent corruption, unless citizens actively demand accountability from government and institutions.
The attitudes and expectations of citizens are crucial in building a responsive public administration. Therefore fostering attitudes that do not tolerate corruption is at the core of Transparency International’s (TI’s) work. Ethics education for young people can help break the cycle of corruption, as today’s youth will be potential leaders of tomorrow.
However, anti-corruption education does not work in isolation. The environment in which children grow up plays a decisive role in shaping their attitudes. Ethics education must be part of a broader effort to improve governance and reduce corruption. Within this framework, children must have an appropriate and conducive learning environment that values integrity.
Thus, in order to be credible, anti-corruption teaching must relate to the daily lives of the students and address real life dilemmas, conflicts if interests and corruption cases. Several civil society organisations around the world have played an important role in making anti-corruption education a reality. Though they have approached the topic from different angles, including moral or value education, human rights and civic education, they all have set up a common goal, strengthening young people’s attitudes and demand for accountability, and ultimately, to build trust in government and the public sector.

1. Are the following statements true, false or not mentioned?
a) The citizens’ role is very important to stop corruption.
b) TI’s work is becoming more difficult.
c) Anti-corruption education depends on the environment.
d) Anti-corruption education concerns more the adults.

2. Answer the following questions according to the ****.
a) What are the conditions that help the anti-corruption education to succeed?
b) According to you, what’s anti-corruption education?

3. What does the first sentence of paragraph 4 express? Replace ‘Thus’ by another word.
4. What or who do the underlined words in the **** refer to?
a) their (§ 3) b) the topic (§4)
b) **** exploration ( 7 pts)
1. Find in the **** words that are closest in meaning to the following
a) most important (§1) b) stop (§2)
2. Find in the **** words that are opposite in meaning to the following
a) augment (§3) b) dream (§4)
3. Which nouns can be derived from these words?
a) employ - b) free - c) reduce - d) legal

4. Supply the correct form of the verbs in brackets.
a) He won’t have any problems with his boss as long as his work (to do) correctly.
b) I wish I (to accept) his bribe. ( but I take the bribe)
c) Corruption (must/fight) by every citizen.

5. Combine these pairs of sentences using the given connectors.
a) He was put in prison. He was caught embezzling his employees. ( because of)
b) People trust her a lot. She is an honest woman. ( such …)
c) You don’t like to have problems. You refuse to buy a counterfeit product. ( you’d better …)

6. Classify the following words according to the pronunciation of their final –S.
a) chances b) citizens c) ethics d) cases

/ S / / Z / / IZ /

7. Fill in the gaps so that the passage makes sense.
Piracy is an …………….. practice. It is not only …………….. to imitate other people’s property but also ………………….. and illegal to do so. I ……………….. with people ……………. approve counterfeiting. It is neither beneficial for the ………… nor for the economy of a country.

Part 2. Written Expression: (6pts)

Choose one of the following topics.
Topic 1.

You are a president of a youth association. You are giving a speech to children explaining how to have ethical behaviour. Imagine your speech. The following words might help you:
Wrong - right - honest - loyal - trusty - faithful - doing legal things - advice - helpful - responsible - devoted - dedicated ….

Topic 2.

You bought a genuine expensive pair of sport shoes ‘ NIKE ’. Later, you discovered that it was a counterfeit product. You went to see the shopkeeper and had a discussion with him / her
Imagine the conversation.

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A/ Comprehension (7pts)

Schools and universities existed in Britain long before the government began to take interest in education. There were ‘public’ schools where the sons of upper and upper-mid**e classes were educated to take up positions in the higher ranks of the army, in business and politics. In fact, those were private schools for the privileged. Only very rich families could afford to pay for the studies, because the fees were very high .They were free from state control and most of them were boarding. It goes without saying that education there was of a high quality; the discipline was very strict. When the pupils from these schools finished their education, they formed the ruling elite, retaining the distinctive habits and vocabulary which they had learnt at school.
Some of the many changes that have taken place in British education in the second half of the twentieth century simply reflect the wider social process of increased egalitarianism; education and its possibilities for social advancement came within everybody’s reach.
Before 1965, most children in the country had to take an exam at about the age of eleven, at the end of their primary schooling. If they passed that exam, they went to a grammar school where they were taught academic subjects to prepare them for university, the professions, management jobs and other highly skilled jobs. If they failed, they went to modern school. Many people argue that it was wrong for a person’s life to be decided at so young an age. The children who went to ‘secondary moderns’ tended to be seen as ‘failures’.
Over the next decade, the division into grammar schools and secondary modern schools was changed. These days, most eleven-year olds all go to the same local school. These schools are known as co-educational comprehensive schools. In such schools, children of school age (5-16) study three core subjects within their curriculum: English, Maths and Science and seven foundational ones: Technology, History, Geography, Music, Art, Physical Education and a Foreign Language.

1/ Read and choose the letter that best completes each statement.
I. In Great Britain, public schools are ………… schools.
a- private b- free c- state
II. Children who attended public schools became………..
a- educators b- governors c- skilled workers
III. Today, boys and girls attend……………schools.
a- different b- the same c- state

2/ Read and answer the following questions.
 Who had the right to study in public schools in Britain?
 Were there any changes in the British educational ****** after 1950? If so, mention them.
 What did children study at a grammar school?
 In which paragraph is the right to education for every British person mentioned?

3/ What do the underlined words refer to in the ****?
a) those (§1) b) there (§1) c) they (§1)
c) which (§1) d) their (§3) e) their (§4)

4/ Choose the idea that best summarizes the ****.
a. In Great Britain, the present schools differ from those of the past.
b. Standards at schools are watched by the British government.
c. In Britain, education lasts eleven years.

5/ Give a suitable title to the ****.

B/ **** Exploration (7pts)

1/ Find in the **** the words whose definitions follow.
I. ………. (§1): receiving lodging during the school term.
II. ……… (§3): to happen usually.
III. ……… (§4): being attended by both boys and girls.
IV. ……… (§2): the belief that all people are equal.
2/ Form words adding the right affix (prefix/suffix)

Verb Noun Adjective
study ………………. ……………….
………………… division ………………
prepare ……………….. ……………….
…………………. ……………….. foundational

3/ Give the right form to the verbs in brackets.
Nowadays, education (have) a lot to (gain) from the use of technologies which can (allow) unlimited access to knowledge, (facilitate) understanding and (stimulate) imagination.

4/ Rephrase the following sentences.
 I would not go abroad to study if I weren’t given the opportunity.
Unless……………………………………………………..............
 If Tom had visited the bookshop, he would have bought many novels.
Unless………………………………………………………………
 Jane read the advertisement in the newspaper, so she applied for the job.
If……………………………………………………………………..
 We don’t visit the town library so often because we live far away.
If……………………………………………………………………

5/ Classify the following words according to the pronunciation of their vowels.
university – boarding – these – ruling – half – twentieth– taught – before

/a:/ /i:/ /u:/ /3:/ /:/

6/ Reorder the sentences below to have a coherent passage. One sentence is irrelevant and must be left out.
a. It makes your mind work better.
b. There is nothing magical in books at all.
c. Good books challenge and excite your mind.
d. Reading has long been regarded as the best means to acquire culture.
e. that they influence your personal life.
f. Thus, they contribute to the development of your moral and intellectual faculties, i.e. the development of your culture.
g. They depict characters that are so true to life

Part I: Written Expression (6pts)
Choose one of the following topics.
Topic (1): You attended a lecture about education in India. Below are your notes. Use them to summarize the lecture to your classmates.

Education in India
 Independence: Aug. 15, 1947
 Primary schools 12,843 – colleges 636 – univ.17
 Literacy 14%
 Total education expenditure: 570 million rupees
 Edu. Census 1996
 600,000 primary schools
 Literacy for age groups 6-11: 94%
 211 univ. – 7000 colleges – 3.5 million students
 Overall literacy: 52.11%
 Education expenditure 200,000 million rupees

Topic (2): What would you do to improve our educational ****** if you were the Minister of Education?

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A. COMPREHENSION (08pts)
The global anti-corruption organization Transparency International (TI) has reported corruption is increasing around the world. A TI press release reports there is serious corruption in most of the world’s countries. TI’s yearly survey questions businesspeople and public officials to find out how corrupt a country is. Bangladesh and Chad finished bottom as the most corrupt countries, while Iceland finished top. Finland and New Zealand were the second and third cleanest nations. Corruption is declining in Turkey and Nigeria, but increasing in Russia and Canada.
TI chairman Peter Eigen said: “Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to [reducing] it.” He also said corruption and poverty lock people in a “cycle of misery”. Mr. Eigen warned corruption must be reduced to free people from poverty. David Nussbaum, TI’s chief ****utive, stated: “Corruption isn’t a natural disaster: it is the cold…theft of opportunity from the men, women and children who are least able to protect themselves.” He also said leaders needed to keep their promises to help poor people. The world has made a target to halve extreme poverty by 2015.

.1) Are the following statements true or false?
a) Corruption isn’t decreasing around the world.
b) New Zealand is one of the most corrupt countries.
c) Poverty is increasing because of corruption.
d) Corruption is man-made.

2) Answer the following questions according to the reading passage.
a) What is the role of Transparency International?
b) Why does TI’s yearly survey questions businesspeople and public officials?
c) Which country is the most corrupt?
d) How can we free people from poverty?

3) The **** is about: (Choose the general idea of the ****)
a) Transparency International
b) corruption
c) the widespread of corruption in many countries

4) The **** is: (choose the right type)
A) a newspaper article. B) an annual report. C) a public statement.

B. **** EXPLORATION (07pts)

1) Find in the ****:
a) an opposite to: increasing (§1)
b) a word which means: main (§2)
c) a word whose definition is: lack of integrity or honesty (§1)

2) Which adjective can we derived from each of the following nouns?
Nouns Adjectives
• Transparency
• Corruption
• Poverty
• Misery

3) Complete sentence (b) so that it means the same as sentence (a).
1. a) The painting was so perfectly imitated that nobody knew it was copied.
b) It was such ……………………………………………………
2. a) I think more organizations should join TI to fight corruption.
b) It’s high time………………………………………………….
3. a) I regret having accepted the bribe.
b) I wish………………………………………………………….

4) Classify the following words according to the number of their syllables.
a) corruption. b) fraud. c) Transparency. d) survey.

5) Fill in the gaps with words from the list below.
counterfeiters – medicine – die - fake.
The U.N warns that many people will …(1)… as a result of taking the …(2)… drug. The … (3)…very cleverly **** the details on the packaging and labelling of the … (4)… and ensure that all tablets and pills look identical to the real thing.

PART 2: WRITING ( 5 points)
Choose one of the following topics:
Topic one:
You are a journalist interviewing a member of Transparency International, write the interview using the following points:
- the causes of increase in corruption around the world
- the measure that TI has taken to reduce or eradicate corruption
- the countries where TI has got results
- plans in the future
Topic two:
Next December, there will be an anti-corruption summit in Strasbourg organized by a Group of States against corruption, what would you suggest if you had the opportunity to attend the summit?
Write a paragraph about your suggestions.

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A) Comprehension: (08pts)
The marketing of junk food and fast food has become big business—some have called the food industry the next Tobacco. Companies spend top dollar on advertising to make us keenly aware of their products. The aggressive advertising is working, Pepsi spends an estimated $2.1 billion a year on marketing, McDonald’s $1.2 billion, and Coca-Cola is not far behind at $895 million.
The average child watches 10,000 food advertisements per year on television; most are for junk food and fast food—only 2% are for fruits, vegetables, or beans. Advertisements for junk food and fast food can also be seen in magazines, movies (through product placement), stores, the Internet, and even schools. What impact is this having on youth? Recent statistics indicate that 14% of children are now seriously overweight. 60% of overweight children between the ages of 5-10 years of age already have at least one risk factor for heart disease, including elevated blood cholesterol, blood pressure or increased insulin, and type 2 diabetes.
However, today’s youth, particularly girls, get mixed messages from the media. On one hand, they are bombarded daily with advertisements for junk food and fast food on television and magazines, yet the same magazines and television shows that serve up these ads also celebrate the waif look by portraying pencil-thin models. This has created a state of confusion and potential danger for many young women (and men). The National Eating Disorders Association estimates that 81% of 10-year-olds are afraid of being fat and between “5-10 million girls and women and 1 million boys and men are struggling with eating disorders including anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, or borderline conditions.”
1/ In which paragraph is it mentioned that
a) Junk food is as dangerous as smoking?
b) people gain weight at an early age because of food advertisements?

2/ Complete the following table with information from the ****.
Food advertisements are
financed by found in/on the cause of
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- -
-
- -
-
-

3/ Answer the following questions according to the ****.
a) Why do companies spend large sums of money on food advertisements?
b) What impact do food advertisements have on youth?
c) Why are many young women in a state of confusion?
d) Do you find the mixed messages from the media ethical? Why?
4/ What do the underlined words refer to in the ****.
a) Their (§1) b) most (§2) c) they (§3)

B) **** Exploration: (07pts)
1/ Find in the **** words whose definitions follow.
a) the activity of attracting public attention to a product or business (§1)
b) having excessive fat in the body (§2)
c) a white crystalline substance found in animal tissues and various foods (§2)
d) eating disorder mainly loss of appetite (§3)
2/ Add an appropriate suffix “-tion, or –er, -ment, -ing” to each of the verbs below to form nouns: each suffix can be used once.
a) product b) watch c) consume d) move.
3/ Combine these pairs of sentences using the given connectors.
a) Many children are overweight. Advertisements on food. ( due to )
b) Young women buy any slimming product. Commercials on weight loss are convincing.(so...that)
c) You will get slim. You do exercise regularly. (provided that)
d) You consume an excessive amount of fatty food. You will be overweight. (if)
4/ Classify the following words according to the pronunciation of their final S.
a) products b) watches c) movies d) stores.

/s/ /z/ /iz/

5/ Complete the following dialogue.
A: Hello, have you heard about the new slimming pills on TV?
B: Sorry ? Slimming pills? …………………………………………………………………………………..
A: But the advertisements have shown real people before and after using them!
B: …………………………………………………………………………………………………….........
A: Oh! I thought I could get slim easily thanks to this new invention, but now I am afraid of using it.
B: Listen, you shoud……………………………………… and ……………………………………….......
A: You are right, I think…………………………………………………………..... Thanks for your advice.
Part 2: Written Expression: (05pts)
Choose one of the following topics.
Topic 1.
You are the president of The National Eating Disorders Association and you are giving a speech to children and their parents explaining the impact of food advertisements on their health. Imagine your speech. The following words might help you:
Dangerous – unhealthy – diseases – sport – walk – reading – watching TV – exercise – *****ng – diet- water – fresh fruits and vegetables- fish- energy balance- anorexia- obesity-school performance.

Topic 2.

One of your friends was a victim of food poisoning, you went to visit him or her and had a discussion about food safety, imagine the conversation.

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A) Comprehension (08pts)
Read the **** carefully and do the activities.

The health time bomb of obesity is exploding. Already one in three UK children is obese or overweight. Unless we act, by 2050 over half of adults and almost half of children will be clinically obese. Given that obesity takes, on average, 13 years from the life of sufferers, this could lead to the first fall in life expectancy for over 300 years.

A key cause of the obesity crisis is our poor diet. The vast majority of UK children consume too much salt, fat and sugar and almost all of them don't get enough fruits and vegetables. In addition to obesity, poor diet is causing a rise in diabetes, heart diseases and other health problems.

It is no coincidence that children eat the foods they see on advertisements. Marketers spend over £ 300 million on food promotion - almost always unhealthy - on TV before 9 pm, and this money is not wasted. Children and parents both say the constant marketing of funk food is one reason why they consume so much of it. In fact almost three- quarters of parents say that junk food advertising influences their children's food choice. Of course children's diets are the responsibility of their parents. But hard-pressed mums and dads need some help.

To ban junk food advertising before 9pm is the best way to protect children. Over 70 per cent of children's TV viewing is outside the hours of children's TV (when the government's advertising restrictions apply). The commercial TV programmes that children watch most are Ant & Dec, The X Factor and Coronation Street. Unless we protect children from TV adverts during these programmes we will not tackle the obesity crisis.

1. Are the following statements true or false?
a. One of the three children in UK is obese.
b. Diabetes, hearth diseases and other health problems are linked to obesity
c. Children eat food they see on TV.

2. Answer the following questions according to the ****.
1) What is the key cause of obesity?
2) How much money do marketers spend on promoting food?
3) What should be done to protect children from consuming junk food?

3. What do the underlined words refer to in the ****?
a. This (§ 1)
b. They (§3)
c. They (§ 4)

B.**** Exploration (07pts)
1. Find in the **** words that are opposite in meaning to the following.

a. Slim (§1) b. healthy (§3) c. Inside (§4)

2. Add two more words to each list of words.

consumer trader ………… …………
tasting Eating ………… …………
never Generally ………… …………
soda pizza ………… …………

3. Complete sentence B so that it means the same as sentence A.

a. Unless we act now, half of the children will be clinically obese.
b. If we .................................................. ............................................
a. He said, ‘we must avoid junk food.’
b. He said that ......................................
a. It is possible to buy and eat fresh food.
b. We .................................................. ........

4. Classify the following words according to the pronunciation of their final S.

advertisers - cooks - diseases - promotes - newspapers - packages

5. Complete the following dialogue.

A: What have we got for lunch, mum?
B: .................................................. ...........
A: But you know that I hate vegetables.
B:. .................................................. ...........
A: Well, you adults always say that.
B: .................................................. ......
A: In fact, it is so tasty to eat junk food.
B: .................................................. ...........
A: Don’t worry mum, I’m still young.
B: .................................................. ..........

Part 2. Written expression (5 pts)
Choose one of the following topics.
Topic 1.
The next decades are likely to bring about radical changes in our life styles. Fast food and junk food are invading our houses.
In a short paragraph, say why this happens and what consequences of such changes are.

Topic 2.
Are you personally concerned about the food you eat?
Name, in a short paragraph, the foods you won’t eat and give the reasons why.

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PART ONE: READING (15 points)
A. COMPREHENSION (08pts)
Read the passage carefully then do the activities.

The story is one of tragedy and fraud. It started in May 1981, when travelling salesmen in Northern and central Spain started selling cheap olive oil. They guaranteed that it was pure, and had sold vast quantities around Madrid, Valladolid and Leon, before anyone realized that it was wrong.

Like most Mediterranean countries, Spain uses olive oil in its *****ng. When people started falling ill in May, nobody suspected that it was the *****ng oil which was the cause of the illness. It was a medical mystery: doctors and scientists were completely baffled by the spread of the disease.

There were several theories about what was happening. At first, it was thought that bad fish had caused food poisoning, and later, that it was rotten fruit. It was until June that children’s doctor in Madrid made the connection between the sickness and the oil. Immediately, the government started issuing public warnings, and offered to take any suspect oil, giving pure oil exchange. This stopped the spread of the poison. But it was too late for the thousands of people who had already eaten the contaminated substance. People who had been affected could not eat or sleep, had pains all over their body, suffered headaches and fevers, and had difficulty in breathing. Some of them even died.

Doctors and scientists were still not sure what the poison was. The most popular theory was that a Spanish company imported some industrial oil from France, and tried to remove the impurities by boiling it at 200°C. They mixed it with a small amount of olive oil to give it a taste, and then sent it to the salesmen to sell as pure olive oil. When they boiled the oil, however, they created a new substance, which was poisonous and unknown to the medical authorities. At one time, twenty thousand people in Spain were analyzing the oil, trying to find a cure for the poison. By March 1982, they had still not found a way of curing the illness caused by the oil. The Spanish health Ministry admitted that all antidotes so far tried had been unsuccessful. While the medical authorities were carrying out the various analyses, the police arrested fourteen people suspected of being responsible for the oil poisoning.

Adapted from Modern English International
Number 5, May 1982

1. Choose the letter that best completes the sentence.
The **** is...
a. de******ive.
b. narrative.

2. Say whether the following statements are true or false.
a. Many Mediterranean countries consume olive oil.
b. Food poisoning was caused by bad fish.
c. All the contaminated people died.
d. By March 1982, doctors were unable to cure the disease.

3. In which paragraph is it mentioned that...
doctors were uncertain about the nature of the poison?

4. What or who do the underlined words in the **** refer to?
a. This stopped...
b. ...had pains all over their body...
B. **** EXPLORATION (07pts)
1. Find in the **** words or phrases that are closest in meaning to the following.
a. amounts=.................(§.1)
b. puzzled =................(§.2)

2. Find the opposites of the following words in the ****.
a. received=/=.............(§.4)
b. released=/=..............(§.4)

3. Complete the following table.
verbs nouns
contaminate ...........................
remove ...........................
offer ...........................
create ...........................

4. Ask questions that the underlined words answer.
a. It started in May 1981.
b. The Spanish use olive oil in their *****ng.
c. Doctors were baffled.

5. Put the verbs between brackets into the correct form.
a. Advertisements of unhealthy foods (be) harmful.
b. Markets may (examine) consumer behaviour.
c. Some people are fond of (cook).
d. If she (eat) a lot of fat and sugar, she will put on weight.

6. Classify the following words according to the pronunciation of their final “S”.
uses scientists thousands substances
/s/ /z/ /iz/

7. Reorder the following sentences according to the ****.
a. The government took measures to stop the spread of the disease.
b. People started falling ill.
c. A Spanish company imported industrial oil from France.
d. The connection between the oil and the disease was made, but without success to find the cure.
e. Travelling salesmen sold vast quantities of this oil.
PART TWO : Written Expression ( 5 pts)
Choose one of the following topics.
Topic 1.
A friend of yours is obese; he faces many difficulties in his daily life. Use the following notes to
write a paragraph of about 80 to 120 words on the causes and the effects of obesity.
• eating a lot of fat and sugary
• consuming wrong kind of food
• lack of practising sport
• appearance of different diseases
• increase in the feeling of inferiority

Topic 2.
Are you for or against advertisements for fast food? Write a paragraph of about 80 to 120 words giving your reasons.

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