“England is not exactly like I pictured it”, p. 46
Le sujet de bac qui figure dans le manuel a été préparé pour les classes littéraires.
Barème
Compréhension : 70 points + expression : 70 points = 140 points, ramenés à 14 points.
Traduction : 60 points, ramenés à 6 points.
On trouvera plus loin une adaptation des questions pour les classes de ES-S (p. 96) et les sections technologiques
(p. 98).
Corrigé de l’épreuve simulée de Bac ssection L
COMPREHENSION
1. The text can be divided into three parts. Specify them and give a title for each. 8 points
Possible titles for the three parts:
– ll. 1-10: Conversation on the phone between a mother in the USA and her daughter in Britain.
– ll. 11-25: What Britain represents for Americans.
– ll. 26-47: The discovery of Britain by the American mother.
2. Where exactly does the scene take place? Where does each of these characters live: the narrator, Mrs
Lovell? 8 points
The scene takes place in London: “Mom, you’re coming to London” (l. 10) indicates that the narrator lives in London. The person called Mom by the narrator most probably lives in the USA, which explains the narrator’s reflection about the relationship between Americans and Great Britain in the second part of the text. Mrs Lovell is a neighbour of Mom’s in America (Mrs Lovell at the church, l. 4).
3. Pick out all the place names associated with: 9 points
a. the USA: New Jersey (l. 21), Nebraska (l. 22), Florida, Pennsylvania, Texas, Minnesota (l. 24), the lower
East Side (l. 42).
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b. the British Isles: England (l. 6), Britain (l. 11), Glasgow (l. 14), Ireland (l. 14), Chiswick (l. 15), London
(l. 19), Brent Cross (l. 29).
Katmandu (l. 10) is located neither in Britain nor in America: it is the capital of Nepal. It is mentioned as an example of a place where the mother would be more disoriented than in London.
4. What three points is “Mom” enquiring about? Why? 7 points
Mom wonders if the British have cars (But they don’t have cars