Le sujet 2006 - Bac S - Anglais LV2 - Expression |
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Le sujet d'expression 1 porte sur le développement de la
restauration "à emporter". Attention au sens de "account
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exemples. C'est un sujet d'argumentation qui exige une pensée structurée et une
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I was in Macksville owing to the interesting discovery that Brisbane
is not three or four
hours north of Sydney, as I had long and casually supposed, but the
better part of a couple
of days' drive. Well, if you look on the television weather map
Brisbane and Sydney are
practically neighbours, their little local suns and storm clouds all
but bumping on the chart.
5 But in Australia neighbourliness is of course a relative concept. In
fact, it is almost 1,000
kilometres from Sydney to Brisbane, much of it along a cheerfully
poky(1) two-lane road. And
so, in mildly confounded consequence, I was in Macksville for the
night.
My mood as I strolled into town from my motel was, let us say,
restrained. Macksville
wasn't so bad really. Set on the bank of the swift and muddy Nambucca River, it was
10 essentially just a pause in the highway: a tentacle of neatly
gardened bungalows and small
office buildings leading to a very compact town centre. Though the
road through town is the
Pacific Highway, the main artery connecting Sydney
and Brisbane, only two cars passed as I
followed its dusty margin into town. At the heart of the modest
community stood the large
and fading Nambucca Hotel, and I stepped in, glad to escape the heat.
It was a roomy place
15 but nearly empty. Two older guys in singlets and battered bush hats
propped up one end of
the long bar. In a side room a man and a woman sat in silent
absorption amid the soft,
mechanical glow of pokies(2). I procured a beer, stood long enough
to establish that no one
was going to take any interest in me that might lead to a
conversation, and retired to the
central portion of the bar where I parked myself on a stool and idly
watched the evening
20 news on a silent TV mounted on the wall.
According to a sign on a door across the room, the Nambucca had a
restaurant, so I
wandered over to investigate. The door wouldn't open.
"Dining room's closed, mate," said one of the two guys at the
bar. "Chef's crook."
"Must've ate some of his own cooking," came a voice from the
pokie alcove, and we
25 all had a grin over that.
"What else is there in town?" I asked.
"Depends, "said the man, scratching his throat thoughtfully.
He leaned towards me
slightly. "You like good food?"
I nodded. Of course I did.
30 "Nothin' then." He went back to his beer.
"Try the Chinese over the road," said his companion.
"It's not too bad."
The Chinese restaurant was just across the road as promised, but according
to a sign
in the window it was not licensed to serve alcohol and I couldn't
face smalltown Chinese food
without the solace of beer. I have travelled enough to know that a
chef does not, as a rule,
35 settle in a place like Macksville because he has a lifelong yearning
to share the subtleties of
3,500 years of Szechuan cuisine with sheep farmers. So I went off to
see what else there
might be in Macksville's compact heart. The answer was very little.
Everything appeared to
be shut except one small takeaway establishment called, not
altogether promisingly, Bub's
Hotbakes. I opened the door, briefly enlivening 5,000 flies that had
dropped by to see what
40 Bub and his team were up to, and stepped inside, knowing in my heart
that this was almost
certainly going to be a regretted experience.
Bub's had a substantial range of food, nearly ail of it involving
brown meat and gravy
lurking inside pastry. I ordered a large sausage roll and chips.
'We don't do chips," said the amply proportioned serving maiden(3).
45 "Then how did you get like that?" I wanted to say, but of
course I suppressed this
unworthy thought and revised my order to a large sausage roll and
something called a
"continental cheesecake square" and went with them outside. I
ate standing on the corner.
Adapted from Bill Bryson, Down Under, 2001
(1) poky: (adj.) too small or not very
comfortable
(2) a poky: (noun) a poker machine
(3) a serving maiden: a waitress
Les candidats de la série S choisiront de traiter l'un des deux sujets au choix (200 mots).
Les candidats de la série L devront obligatoirement traiter les deux sujets (300 mots au total, soit environ 150 mots pour chaque sujet).
Sujet 1 : Takeaway food is becoming more and more popular. Account for this evolution in contemporary society.
Sujet 2 :
Write about a place you regretted going to.
Sujet 1
INTRODUCTION
DEMONSTRATION
Yes
Accroissement progressif
Ex : today's life is more and more hectic.
● food is affordable, accessible and varied
(low-fat diets / Chinese, Turkish, American foods)
● family and friendly gatherings outside the home (Mc Donald's birthday
parties)
● games for children
It enables...
It allows for + noun / it allows us to + verb
It is possible to...
No matter what we may want to eat...
to feel like + ing
Linking words: moreover, furthermore, on top of that, besides, in the
first place,...
Limits
Linking words: despite, in spite of, nevertheless
● health risks shown by films such as "Supersize me", obesity,
overweight, heart failures
● junk found
CONCLUSION
Though, today when we
take a close look at society, we can see the trend is changing.
● cooking lessons as an opportunity to meet people
● learning to eat healthier
● focusing on cultural values and sharing cooking experiences
Sujet 2 :
Notion à utiliser : le regret
● If I had known, I would not have + P. P.
● If only I had not been to...
● I wish I hadn't been ...
Les superlatifs :
● My worst
experience...
● The place I hated the most...
Le paradoxe :
● Although /
though, it looked nice at first sight, it quickly turned out to be... / it
quickly proved (to be) + adj
L'énumération :
First and foremost,
then, next, last but not least, in addition, furthermore.
Vocabulaire utile
:
● It was a
sheer nightmare.
● It was awful, dreadful, terrible, disgusting, sickly, dirty, bad /
foul-smelling, spooky / scary, gloomy, noisy, damp, scorching ≠ freezing.