Correction Sujet Anglais TS – Pondichéry 2010-
1- The Location
 holiday  vacation
 wardrobe  closet
 shopping centre  Mall
 flat  apartment
 film  movie
2- The Main Character a- The main character is Mary Ann Singleton, she is twenty-five years old and she works as a secretary. She is from Cleveland, Ohio. (23 words) b- She is in San Francisco, California for an eight-day vacation. c- Mr. Lassiter is the owner of Lassiter Fertilizer. He is Mary Ann’s boss. d- Mr. Lassiter appreciates Mary Ann very much: l.25 “(…) he said the office is falling apart with you gone.” e- She wants her mother to call Mr. Lassiter for her to let him know that she won’t report back to work as scheduled after her vacation. (26 words)
3- The Mother a- She is a loving mother (“darling”). She is also over-protective as she can’t fathom the idea that her daughter won’t be back from her vacation. She is also narrow-minded (l.50 “a bunch of hippies and mass murderers”). Finally, she is over-imaginative because she keeps thinking that something terrible will happen to her daughter. (l. 8, line 54 and l.55). (59 words)
Note du professeur proposant la correction : the adjectives apprehensive, bossy and interfering could also be accepted as long as they are justified properly:
- Apprehensive: Anticipating something with anxiety or fear…
- Bossy: l. 43- 47.
- Interfering: l. 40 b- The mother visited the city with her husband when they were newlyweds and she has romantic memories of one of the tourist spots in San Francisco. Yet, she now pictures the city as inhabited by a bunch of hippies and low-lives (l.50) (42 words)
4- The Decision a- The main character has decided to stay in San Francisco and to start a new life there. (17 words) b- l. 37: “It feels like home already” ll. 41-42: “I just want to start making my own life… have my own apartment and all.” ll. 61-62: “But you won’t be… the same!” “I hope not”.
Mary Ann feels very comfortable in San