Sujet bac 2008 : Anglais LV1 Série ES – Pondichéry
Session 2008

BACCALAURÉAT GENERAL

ANGLAIS Langue vivante 1 Séries ES - S
Durée : 3 heures – Coefficient 3

L’usage du dictionnaire et des calculatrices est interdit.

Compréhension Expression

10 points 10 points

Avant de composer, le candidat s’assurera que le sujet comporte bien 4 pages numérotées de 1/4 à 4/4.

Bac 2008 – Série ES – LV1 Anglais – Pondichéry

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KIT OXENFORD woke early, feeling eager and anxious at the same time. It was a strange sensation. Today he was going to rob Oxenford Medical. The idea filled him with excitement. It would be the greatst prank(1) ever. It would be written up in books with titles like The Perfect Crime. Even better, it would be revenge on his father. The company would be destroyed, and Standley Oxenford would be ruined financially. The fact that the old man would never know who had done this to him somehow made it better. It would be a secret gratification that Jit could hug himseld for the rest of his life. But he was anxious, too. This was unusual. By nature, he was not a worrier. Whatever trouble he was in, he could generally talk his way out. He rarely planned anything. He had planned today. Perhaps that was his problem. He lay in bed with his eyes closed, thinking of the obstacles he had to overcome. First, there was the physical security around the Kremlin: the double row of fencing, the razor wire, the lights, the intruder alarms. Those alarms were protected by tamper switches, shock sensors, and end of line circuitry that would detect a short circuit. The alarms were directly connected to regional police headquaters at Inverburn via a phone line that was continuously checked by the system to verify that it was operational. None of that would protect the place against Kit and his collaborators. Then there were the guards, watching important areas on closed-circuit television cameras, patrolling the premises hourly. Their TV