Bac Général
Classe : Terminale
Centre d’examen : Sujet zéro
Matière : LLCER Anglais monde contemporain
Année :
Session : Sujet zéro
Durée de l’épreuve : 3 heures 30
Repère de l’épreuve :
L’usage du dictionnaire unilingue non encyclopédique est autorisé.
La calculatrice n’est pas autorisée.
Synthèse 16 points
Traduction ou transposition 4 points
SUJET 1
Le sujet porte sur la thématique « Faire Société ».
Partie 1 (16 pts)
Prenez connaissance du dossier proposé, composé des documents A, B et C
non hiérarchisés, et traitez en anglais le sujet suivant (500 mots maximum) :
Explain what the documents show about poverty in the United States. Make sure that you address:
– factors and signs of poverty;
– factors and signs of improvement;
– variations over time and by categories of population.
Partie 2 (4 pts)
Traduisez en français le passage suivant du document A :
But Elise Gould, a senior economist with the Economic Policy Institute, noted some disturbing trends. Although median household income rose for four consecutive years, the rate of growth and the income level has slowed significantly and is slightly below where it was almost two decades ago. “It’s a step in the right direction, but most families barely made up the ground lost” with the recession, she said.
[…]
The Census Bureau also found that there was little change in income inequality last year. (l. 30-37)
SUJET 2
Le sujet porte sur la thématique « Environnements en mutation ».
Partie 1 (16 pts)
(a) Prenez connaissance du dossier proposé, composé des documents A, B et
C non hiérarchisés, et traitez en anglais le sujet suivant (300 mots maximum ; 10 points) :
Taking into account their specificities, say what the documents reveal about changing perceptions of good city-planning between the end of the Second World War and our own times.
(b) “Streets and their sidewalks, the main public places of a city, are its most
vital organs.” (Document C, l. 1) Vous expliquerez en anglais et en 200 mots
maximum en quoi cette affirmation de Jane Jacobs éclaire les documents A et
B. (6 points)
Partie 2 (4 pts)
Traduisez en français le passage suivant du document A :
From the 1940s until the 1970s, the political consensus across developed economies was clear: dedicated highways equipped with grade-separated interchanges were the only way to keep city traffic moving. But urban motorways offered more than that: to many, they symbolised progress and dynamism in a world determined to bulldoze its past. Thus the 1945 City of Manchester Plan called for a concentric ring road system and the demolition of the now-listed Town Hall in the interests of increasing parking space. (l. 1-7)