Corrigé Anglais LV2 - Bac STMG Métropole 2016

COMPREHENSION DE L’ECRIT

DOCUMENT 1

A. Copy the following sentences and fill in the gaps with the appropriate elements.

1) The text is an email

2) President Obama remembers Ms Mabel Hefty who was his schoolmistress when he was in fifth grade.

B.1) True or False? Justify your answer by quoting the text.

a) False : “ I was just a kid with a funny name in a new school, feeling a little out of place, hoping to fit in like anyone else” (line 7)

b) False : “I wished she hadn’t, in fact I wished I were just about anywhere else but at that desk” (line 9-10)

c) True : “ This is something that I carry with me every day as president” (line 15-16)

d) True : “ I want to hear from you. We’ll be responding to and sharing your responses all week long” (line 23-24)

2) Choose the appropriate element to complete the sentence and justify by quoting the text.

The author feels that what matters to him today comes c- both from his family and his teacher

line 14-15 : “ And she reinforced that essential value of empathy that my mother and my grandparents had taught me”

3) Conclusion: what could the author say today? Choose the appropriate bubble and copy it onto your paper.

a- thanks to my teacher I became self-confident

C. Complete the sentence by choosing the right answer from the list below. The purpose of the text is to celebrate :

3- Educators who help children become themselves

DOCUMENT 2

D. Who is Estella? To answer the question, copy the following table onto your paper and complete it with the appropriate elements.

E. What is Estella’s situation today? Answer by completing the following sentence with ONE element from EACH column.

Today, Estella...

2-does not have a paid job anymore and c- helps out her community

F. 1) True or False? Justify your answer by quoting the text.

a) True : line 4 : “ the sluggish economy forced many families to prioritize their money and use it for more pressing needs”

b) False : line 2-3 “ Estella pyform noticed that fewer students had access to a computer after school”

c) True : line 17 : “ Students who lack access to a home computer are less likely to graduate high school”

2) Conclusion. Answer the question in your own words.

Because of the crisis, people prefer to spend their money to satisfy their basic needs such as eating, having a shelter, therefore paying their rents. Buying a computer is sometimes impossible, they just can’t afford it and school is the only solution to have better standards of living, with diplomas, with the possibility to have access to information you get improve yourself, then get a better degree and be graduated and obtain a better well-paid job which will allow you to buy a computer and have an access to culture. It is a circle.

G. Answer the following questions by quoting the text.

1) What is the name of Estella’s project?

The name of Estalla’s project is “ Have knowledge, Will travel” “We bring learning to you” 2) How is it financed?

It is financed with her savings and with volunteers

3) When Estella started her project, she made a detailed plan. Copy the following table onto your paper and fill it in by quoting the text.

DOCUMENT 1 AND DOCUMENT 2

H. 1) Choose one title that applies to BOTH documents.

b- ordinary people reforming the educational system

2) Match each sentence on the left with one element on the right.

a) Helping people triumphs over their fears → 2)only Ms Hefty

b) Helping people acquire indispensable...→ 1)Only Estella Pyform

c) Developing everyone’s potential → Both of them

d) Considering some learning difficulties impossible to resolve → 3) None of them

EXPRESSION ECRITE

SUBJECT A

Il était nécessaire de respecter le format de la lettre (une date, une formule d’entrée, une formule de politesse), c’était une lettre plutôt formelle donc il fallait faire attention à ne pas employer d’américanisme (“gonna”, “wanna” étaient à bannir)

Des adjectifs du type :

caring, patient, optimisic, daring, energetic

Comme toutes étaient des associations a but caritatif il ne fallait pas faire mention de la notion d’argent mais insister sur la volonté de servir son prochain, de se battre contre les inégalités et les injustices de la vie. Faire également mention de ses qualités d’altruiste.

SUBJECT B

Comme tous les discours il vous fallait commencer par vous adresser à vos compatriotes (ici des étudiants)

le ton employé devait être solennel et on attendait de vous une logique dans ce discours.

Vous deviez parler de vos meilleurs souvenirs dans l’école, les choses découvertes et apprises (insistant sur la notion de partage, de camaraderie)

Quelques exemples (2 maximum) pouvaient étayer votre discours (les moments passés avec tel ou tel professeur.)

- Des verbes comme :

sharing, learning, testing, experiencing, discovering, fulfilling

- Des adjectifs comme:

mature, open minded, reliable, sponteanous

- Les temps employés pour ce sujet :

les deux passés et le present perfect afin de parler des conséquences d’une telle éducation.

- La fin de votre discours pouvait se faire avec l’emploi du futur, vous pouviez en effet parler de vos plans à moyen terme et comment grâce à cette école vous entendez bien y arriver.