REPUBLIC OF CAMEROON REGIONAL HARMONISED MOCK EXAMINATION

Peace-Work-Fatherland BACCALAUREAT BILINGUE

MINESEC / ADAMAWA REGION 2025 SESSION
Duration: 3hours 40 mins
Coef: (sections 1, 2, 3,4 and 5) = 5

INTENSIVE ENGLISH
(ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS)
PART ONE: EVALUATION OF RESOURCES
SECTION TWO: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY (10 marks)

A. GRAMMAR (5 marks)

I-Tom is a Terminale Bilingual student in Ngaoundere. He desires to buy an Authentic

Poetry textbook for his studies. He walks into a bookshop and bargains the price with the
trader. Using suitable words or expressions complete the dialogue between Tom and a
trader in a bookshop. (2.5marks)
Tom: Good morning!
Trader: Good morning, dear! ------------------------------------------------------------ can I help you?
Tom: I am looking for a textbook.
Trader: Which textbook do you need? We are offering a special discount this weekend.
Tom: I need Authentic Poetry Book 2 by Egbe Besong Elvis. How ---------------is it?
Trader: It costs 2,500francs instead of the normal 3,000francs.
Tom: It is too expensive. Please kindly sell it to me -------------------------1,500francs. I am just a struggling student.
Trader: Please add 500 francs to make it 2,000francs. I just want to help you.
Tom: Okay! -------------------------------------so much. May God bless your business! Here is your
money.
Trader: It was a pleasure doing business -------------------------- you. I wish you success in your examination.
II- Answer the questions below following the instructions in the brackets (2.5 marks)

1. Police officers hoist the flag every morning. (Turn into Passive voice)
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-2.Cameroonians celebrated the Bilingualism Day on the first Friday of February. (Put the verb in the future tense)
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3. “I will go to the stadium tomorrow”, my mother said. (Turn into Indirect speech)
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4. Let’s go out for a drink, -------------------------------------------------------------------------------, (Provide a Question tag)
5. Cholera can catch people. People don’t care about hygiene rules. (Join using a relative pronoun)
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B. VOCABULARY AND SPEECH WORK (10marks)

I- Fill in the blanks below with suitable words following the instructions in the brackets (2.5
marks)

1. We should keep our environment clean by putting dirt in the bins. (Give synonym) ---------------------------------------------
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2. When you consume too much alcohol, you become an addict. (Form an adjective) ---------------------------------
3.People in this village always use peaceful means to resolve their conflicts.(Form a noun) ---------------------
4. Turn on the TV, please! I want to watch the football match. (Give the antonym) ----------------------------------------
5. Abdoul lost his sight because he was addicted to his mobile phone (Give the verb) -----------------------------------
II- SPEECH WORK (2.5 marks)
1. Choose the right pronunciation of “ed” from the options in the brackets. (1mark)
I experienced mutual acceptance when I went to Buea commonly known as the land of legendary hospitality, in 2012. ---
(/t/; /d/; /id/)
2. Circle the word in which the underlined letters are pronounced differently.
(2marks)
a. Chat, cap, make, tackle
b. Church, character, chair, yatch
3. Complete the cloze text below with suitable words from the brackets. (2marks)

Parents are an integral part of their children’s education. They can act as guardian ----------------------------------
(counsellors/ councillors) by helping their children informed decisions in life. This will help the children avoid
bad friends and reduce the rate of crime and juvenile ------------------------------------- (delinquency / enjoyment).
Part 2: EVALUATION OF COMPETENCES
SECTION THREE: READING COMPREHENSION (20 marks)
Read the passage carefully and answer the questions below it in the spaces provided. Use your own
words as far as possible.
It is no longer a secret to anybody that indiscipline prevails in colleges and high schools especially those in urban
centers. The situation has been preoccupying the minds of teachers, parents and government authorities. The effects of
this indiscipline are drug abuse, vandalism, moral depravity and alarming falling standards.
Discipline can be defined as training, especially of mind and character, to produce self-control, habits of obedience, etc.
Each college has an administrative staff comprising senior discipline masters, wardens and boarding masters who are
specifically charged with the maintenance of order and discipline, yet, the rate of juvenile delinquency in our colleges is
alarming.
Many people think indiscipline is a device to dissuade or repress those who try to contravene the rules and regulations.
This explains why most discipline masters simply look for recalcitrant students and mete out punishment as provided for
in college rules and regulations. The risk of this repressive approach to discipline is that it does not only create in the
students a sentiment of fear, hostility or rebellion against college authorities, but also imposes a forceful discipline on
students. Some take advantage of any free occasion to disguise and express their anger to college authorities.
Poor working conditions of teachers and students are likely to provoke discontent and disorder. For example, the
uncontrolled enrolment children in a class, the poor programming of subjects in a school day, the lack of didactic
materials, the poor location of some colleges which are often near markets, football fields, bars, etc.
The incompetence and irresponsibility of some teachers is also a source of indiscipline amongst students. Some
teachers do not take enough pains to prepare their lesson notes in order to render the subject captivating and interesting
to students. This, sometimes, leads the teacher to make some monumental errors that expose him/her to criticisms of
students.
Parents are also to blame for the indiscipline of their children. Most of them do not perform their role as initial teachers of
their very children. Abandoned to themselves, these children are free to do whatever they like. Because of their social
status, certain parents even go as far as making their children believe that they cannot be punished.
Some, ‟parallel schools‟ hold in corridors and recreational grounds. In such schools, some licentious students mislead
their friends who are a good upbringing. Under such circumstances, principals of institutions of learning should revise
their strategy and consider discipline and good conduct as an indispensable component of objectives assigned to their
schools. Children have to be helped in a teaching and learning process.
Source: The report on the first seminar on Bilingual colleges in Cameroon July, 1993

QUESTIONS
1. According to the text, what is indiscipline? (1 mark)
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 2. Name 2 the causes of indiscipline in school? (2marks)
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3. What are the consequences of indiscipline on students? (2marks)
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4. List two things that can make a teacher punish a student. (2marks)
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5. What piece of advice can you give to school administrators to solve the problem of indiscipline in schools?
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6. What is the responsibility of parents in the upbringing of their children? (2 marks)
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7. Is corporal punishment necessary to curb indiscipline in schools? Give two reasons to justify your answer. (2 marks)
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8. What role does a Senior Discipline Master play in a school? (1 mark)
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9. A school is governed by rules and regulations. State any two in your school. (2 marks)
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10. Look for words and expressions in the passage that are similar in meaning to the words below. (2 marks)
a. stubborn: ----------------------------
b. increasing: ---------------------------
11. If you were the Minister of Secondary Education, what measures would you take to curb indiscipline in school?
Name two. (2 marks)
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SECTION FOUR: COMPOSITION WRITING (20 marks)

Write an essay of between 200-250 words on one of the following topics

1. You took active part in the activities marking the celebration of the National Week of Bilingualism in your
school this year. Many activities were carried out. Write a good essay to describe how it was done. In your
essay, state the theme for this year’s National Week of Bilingualism and the activities carried out by your school
to celebrate this week, state the importance of bilingualism to every Cameroonian and say what one can do to
become bilingual.
2. The Social media destroys more than it educates”, this is a debate topic in the Drama and Journalism club of your
school. Present your arguments for and against this assertion; carefully bringng out the advantages and disadvantages
of the social media especially to students.

SECTION FIVE: LITERATURE AWARENESS

SECTION A: LITERARY NOTIONS (10marks)
I. Answer the following questions by encircling the letter corresponding to the correct answer.
(5marks)

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1. ---------------------------------is a device in literature where a situation or something is grossly exaggerated.

a. Simile
b. Soliloquy
c. Hyperbole
d. Dramatic irony

2. A branch of literature which expresses powerful feelings carefully written in particular rhythm and rhyme is known as --
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a. Poem
b. Poetry
c. Drama
d. Prose

3. The person who works for the downfall of the protagonist in a work of literature is -------------------------

a. The hero or the central character

b. The antagonist
c. The writer
d. The main theme

4. ---------------------------------- is a long narrative poem that traces the adventures of a popular hero.

a. A dirge
b. A lyric
c. An eulogy
d. An epic

5. ------------------------------------- is to poetry what a playwright is to drama

a. Playwright
b. Play writer
c. Novelist
d. A poet
II- Answer the following questions correctly. (5marks)

1._________________, ________________ and ______________ are the three genres of Literature. (2marks)

2. State two main characteristics of poetry that makes it different from other branches of literature. (1mark)
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3. Define the following (2marks)
a) A lyric
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b) A Biography
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Section B: Prose Born before her Time: BY Margaret Afuh

Answer the following questions (10 marks)
1- Who is the author of this text? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (1 mark)
2- Does Abo’s story correspond to the title Born before her Time? Justify your answer. (4 marks)
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3- Which character says “that is asking me to carry water in a basket” (1 mark)

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4- Why does he say it and what does it mean? (1 mark)
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5- What link can you draw among the three first chapters of Born before her Time? (3 marks)
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DRAMA: Visiting America: BY Anne Tanyi Tang (10marks)

Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow.
“You came to take my kids to where? To that uncivilized… a land infested with disease, plagues… characterized by
starvation, poor infrastructure, high rate of infant mortality, premature deaths, lack of educational facilities, dirty drinking
water…and you want to take my kids there?”
1. Identify the speaker in this extract.
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2. To whom is he talking?
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3. Where is the action in this extract taking place?
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4. What can you say about the character trait of the speaker?
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5. Which land is described in the extract above?
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6.In about 10lines, say what happens immediately after this extract and bring out two major themes that are highlighted
here.(4marks)
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POETRY: Authentic Poetry 2: By Egbe Bessong Elvis (10marks)

Read the poem extract below and answer the questions that follow.
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 Our laws, yes our country laws
Like a house with many doors
Closes her eyes to the lords
But shines to the farts of the poor

Our laws, our cobweb laws

The healthy fly her friend
The stunted, her foe and fiend
Provider of the lords.

Questions
1. Identify and give the effectiveness of any two stylistic devices in the above extract? (1mark)
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2. What is the subject matter of the poem? Support your answer with concrete evidence from the
poem. (2marks)
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3. What is the title of the poem from which this extract is taken? (1mark)

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4. In at least ten lines, give a brief account of the poem and say what you like or dislike about this
poem. (6marks)

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