Sujet LLCER — Terminale — Métropole — Bac 2021

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) : Taking into account their specificities and viewpoints, say what the documents show about the impact of both regional and foreign accents on how people are perceived by others. Pay attention to the different types of social pressure and discrimination which this creates. Partie 2 (4 pts) Traduisez en français le passage suivant du document B (l. 1-7) : “It is impossible,” writes George Bernard Shaw in his preface to Pygmalion, “for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.” Pygmalion was first performed in 1913, and adapted into the brilliant Broadway musical My Fair Lady in 1956, but the play’s views on accents are more relevant than ever. An ITV/ComRes survey of 6000 adults across the UK found that 28% of British people feel discriminated against for their regional accent. 21-LLCERANMCME3 Page : 2/9 Document A Adapted from YouGov │yougov.com November 27-28, 2014 [YouGov is a private company conducting opinion polls and market research and operating mainly in the UK.] 21-LLCERANMCME3 Page : 3/9 Document B Accent discrimination: you are what you speak “It is impossible,” writes George Bernard Shaw in his preface to Pygmalion, “for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.” Pygmalion was first performed in 1913, and adapted into the brilliant Broadway musical 5 My Fair Lady in 1956, but the play’s views on accents are more relevant than ever. An ITV/ComRes survey of 6000 adults across the UK found that 28% of British people feel discriminated against for their regional accent. Research by the law firm Peninsular concluded that 80% of employers admit to “making discriminating decisions based on regional accents.” 10 Why is this peculiarly niche1 form of prejudice so widespread? Well, to start off, a distinction needs to be made between international accent discrimination and accent discrimination within the UK. I get the pressure to sound “normal.” I moved from India to Canada when I was ten, and within two years I had lost my accent entirely. If you just heard me over the phone, 15 for all intents and purposes I was a bona fide2 Canuck3. Being