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Annales gratuites Bac STG Comm. gestion RH : Loss of freedom

Le sujet  2008 - Bac STG Comm. gestion RH - Anglais LV1 - Expression Imprimer le sujet
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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.
Le thème s'oriente autour d'un axe pour/contre que vous avez exploité régulièrement pendant l'année.

LE SUJET


     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)

LE CORRIGÉ


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.

 

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