Sujet Anglais LV1 — Terminale — Nouvelle-Calédonie — Bac 2009

Nouvelle-Calédonie - Novembre 2009 - Bac L Lv1 - Proposition de corrigé I -COMPRÉHENSION -EXPRESSION 1. a) What sort of narrative is this? It's a first-person narrative. The scene is seen through the eyes of the narrator. (14 words) b) Find information about the narrator (gender, skin colour, origin). Justify your answer with elements from the text. The narrator is a woman ("I (...) put on a dress" l. 27), with a brown or black complexion ("my skin was the color brown" l. 31) who probably comes from a poor country located in a tropical zone ("my house did not have a refrigerator" l. 17). (23 words) 2. Explain in what kind of place the narrator arrives at the very beginning of the passage. Quote the text. At the very beginning of the passage, the narrator arrives in a big city, which may be the capital city of her country or another, richer country. "a famous building, an important street, a park, a bridge" (ll. 4-5) (27 words) 3. Say whether the following elements belong to: the past the night before the morning a day-dream I used to have on the way in from the airport I got up and put on a dress my house did not have a now that I saw these places the sun was shining but the air was refrigerator in it cold setting out for a day in the country I slept soundly 4. a) How did the narrator feel back home? Quote two elements from the text to justify your answer. She felt bored, quite unhappy and like in a dead-end at home, which is probably why she decided to leave. ("lifeboats to my small drowning soul" l. 6) ; ("my past−so familiar and predictable that even my unhappiness then made me happy now" ll 35-36) (20 words) b) How did the narrator use to cope with those feelings? Quote the text to support your answer. (20 words) She coped with those feelings by day-dreaming about the wonderful places, far away from home, she might eventually go to. (20 words) 5. a) List the things that are new to the narrator in the second paragraph. The things that are new to the narrator are using an elevator, living in an apartment instead of a house, eating fresh or cold food and enjoying comfort. (28 words) b) Explain the narrator's first reaction to what