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SUJET 1 Le sujet porte sur la thématique « Voyages, territoires, frontières ». Partie 1. Synthèse en anglais (16 pts) Prenez connaissance de la thématique ci-dessus et du dossier composé des documents A, B et C et traitez en anglais la consigne suivante (500 mots environ) : Show how the
SUJET 1 Le sujet porte sur la thématique « Voyages, territoires, frontières ». Partie 1. Synthèse en anglais (16 pts) Prenez connaissance de la thématique ci-dessus et du dossier composé des documents A, B et C et traitez en anglais la consigne suivante (500 mots environ) : Show how the three documents convey three visions of Britain, taking into account the way rural and urban landscapes are depicted. Partie 2. Traduction en français (4 points) Traduisez le passage suivant du document A en français : Mr Hu Dawei was visiting the UK for a few days in order to cement his business relationship with Andrew Bishop, Simon’s father. Andrew had spent his working life in dairy farming, and during that time had transformed what was once a small family farm into an expanding international agribusiness. He was approaching his mid-sixties but showed no sign of retiring or running out of ideas: only recently he had discovered a profitable new export market in China, where British milk enjoyed a good reputation. (lines 21 to 26) 21-LLCERANME3 Page : 2/9 Document A Sophie Potter and her husband Ian are playing golf. Simon Bishop is a friend of Ian’s. The moment before he struck the ball was a moment of almost perfect stillness. There was a chirrup of birdsong, yes, but that only emphasized the otherwise profound silence. Here there was no traffic noise, not even a faint murmur from the nearby M401: perhaps it was the trees that muted it, the elegant line of oaks and larches that 5 bordered the eastern side of the fairway2, keeping patient, dutiful watch over this manicured landscape. The sun beat down from a cloudless sky, a sky of rich, flawless cerulean blue. The morning was, indeed, a symphony of blue and green: above Sophie, the sky; to her right in the distance, the simmering blue of a water hazard, a small artificial lake; around her, all the variegated greens placed there by both man 10 and nature, infinitely calming and pleasing to the eye. The passing of time seemed to have been suspended. A feeling of immense restfulness was stealing over her. […] Spending Sunday morning at the Golf and Country Club at Kernel Magna – somewhere, five years earlier, she would never have imagined even setting foot. And thinking, as she walked arm in arm with her husband in the sunshine, that she had