Le sujet 2008 - Bac STG Comm. gestion RH - Anglais LV1 - Expression |
Avis du professeur :
Vous devez traiter les 2 sujets d'expression. De facture
classique, le premier est un dialogue entre le narrateur et
sa fille qui désire aller à l'école sans être accompagnée. Le second est
de type argumentatif sur la liberté accordé aux enfants. |
I asked my mother yesterday how much freedom she
had as a child. "Well," she replied, "I
walked to my nursery school in Cambridge alone,
aged three, and by four I was roaming the
fields behind my house."
After that, she explained, came the war1.
"Your grandfather was away and your grandmother
5 was organising the Women's Voluntary Service; no one
knew where the four children were.
We spent our afternoons canoeing down the Cam without life-jackets, eating sausages out of
tins and, when it rained, we slipped into the
cinema to watch unsuitable love stories. No one
worried about us, they had more important issues
on their minds."
Her childhood sounded idyllic. My mother
explained that it wasn't always perfect. She had
10 once been accosted by a man while bicycling to her fiend's.
"I managed to get away. I
carried on cycling to my friend's house and ate
my tea; it never occurred to me to say
anything until I went home. The police were
called but I was back on my bike the next day."
My mother took a similar attitude to my
childhood. My younger sister and I were allowed to
take the Tube home from school across London from the age of five. My sister was hit by a
15 car once when she crossed a busy road to a sweet shop. She
broke her leg but, as soon as it
had mended we were walking home alone again.
My brothers took the train to my grandmother's in
Suffolk on their own from the age of six
and spent all day without adults in the park playing
football.
Now, according to the Good Childhood Inquiry,
children have everything — iPods, computer
20 games and designer clothes — except the freedom to play
outside on their own. Two thirds of
10-year-olds have never been to a shop or the
park by themselves.
Fewer than one in ten eight-year-olds walk to
school alone.
I'm just as neurotic as other parents. I walk my
three-, four- and six-year-olds to school every
day, clutching their hands. Their every moment in
London is supervised, with playdates and
25 trips to museums. I drive them to football and tennis. No
wonder they love going to the
country where they can spend all day making camps
in the garden, pretending to be orphans.
It isn't just because I fear they may be abducted
or run over, it's because I'm also worried
about being seen as a bad parent. When I let my
eldest son go to the loo2 on his own on a
train, less than 20 feet from where I was seated, the guard lectured me on my irresponsibility.
30 When we go to the park there are signs in the playground
saying that parents may be
prosecuted if they leave their children
unsupervised, and at the swimming pool there must be
an adult for every two children.
It is insane. My children still end up in the
A&E3 department as often as we did. The inside of
a house can be more dangerous than the street,
and sitting at a computer all day, eating crisps,
35 carries more long-term risks than skateboarding alone to a
park.
Telegraph.co.uk, June 2007.
1
The war : World War II
2 the loo : the toilet
3 A&E : les urgences
Do both subjects : one AND two.
1. Imagine a conversation between the writer and her daughter who wants to go
to school alone. (80 words)
2. Parents should give total freedom to their children. Do you
agree ? Give examples to justify your opinion. (120 words)
III - Expressions
1. Respectez le protocole du dialogue (guillemets,
incises, verbes introducteurs,…) et exploitez l’opposition, le contraste, le
désaccord, la colère ou bien le contraire.
Il est nécessaire d’introduire le dialogue en une phrase pour présenter les
protagonistes.
N’oubliez pas que le dialogue doit refléter la psychologie des différents
personnages : la mère peut être partagée entre ses souvenirs de jeunesse sans
contrainte et ses craintes liées à la vie moderne alors que sa fille est inconsciente
des dangers.
- Why don’t you let me go to school alone?
- I want you to stay at home.
- I wish I could go to school by myself.
- If only I could go with my friends. If only you could understand….
- You should listen to me.
- You can’t/ you must/ mustn’t/ I can’t allow you to go on your own
La fin du dialogue ne doit pas être brutale. Prenez le temps de conclure.
2. Gardez à l’esprit le pour et le contre en
construisant un plan agrémenté d’exemples sans oublier de choisir votre camp.
Construisez votre plan en gardant votre opinion pour la fin.
Pros: Parents should give more freedom to
their kids to help them develop their sense of responsibility.
Access to freedom is a way to reach maturity and adulthood.
Cons: Children are unaware and unconscious of the world’s dangers. Parents know
better because they have been through it all.
Too much freedom kills freedom and you become insensitive to the pleasures of
life without any constraints.