Session 2009

BACCALAURÉAT GÉNÉRAL

ANGLAIS Langue vivante
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Série L

Durée:3heures

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Coefficient 4

L'usage du dictionnaire et des calculatrices est interdit.

Compréhension Expression

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Traduction

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Le sujet comporte 3 pages numérotéqs 1/3 à 3/3.

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Salim comes running through the door and collapses face down on the bed. l am alarmed. "Saliml ... Salim!" I shout. "What's happened to you? How come vou are back so early?" lturn him on his back. He is laughing. "ïhe most amazing thing has happened today. This is the happiest day of my tife," he oectarcs. "What is it? Have you won the lottery?" "No. Something even better than winning the lottery. I have seen Armaan Ali." Bit by breathless bit, the whote story comes out. How Salim caught a glimpse ofArmaan Ali while doing his daily round in Ghatkopar. The star was atightjng ffom his Mercedes-Benz to enter a five-star hotel. Salim was travelling on a bus to deliver his last tiffin1 box to a customer. Ihe moment he spotted Afmaan, he jurnped down from the speeding vehiclê, nanowly mjssing being run down by a car, and ran toward the actor, who was passing through the hotel,s revolving door. He was sto-pp€d by the tall, strapping uniformed guard and prevented from entering thJ hotel. "Armaanl" Salim called, trying desperately to catch the star's attentjon. Armaan heàrd the crv. stopped in his tfacks, and turned around. His eyes made contact with Sali.n,s. He oave a fai;t smile, a barely perceptible nod of acknowledgement, and continued walking into the ioUOy. Suti, iorgot all about the tiffin and came racing home to give me the news of his dream having come true. A customer of Gawli Tiffin Carriers went hungry that afternoon. "Does Armaan look different from the way he appears onscreen?" I ask. "No. He is even better in real ljfe," says Salim. 'He is taller and more handsome. My ambition in life is to shake hjs hand,