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SUJET n°1 Le sujet porte sur la thématique « Voyages, territoires, frontières » 1ère partie : Prenez connaissance de la thématique ci-dessus et des documents A, B et C et traitez la consigne suivante en anglais et en 500 mots environ. Taking into account the specificities of the three documents,
SUJET n°1 Le sujet porte sur la thématique « Voyages, territoires, frontières » 1ère partie : Prenez connaissance de la thématique ci-dessus et des documents A, B et C et traitez la consigne suivante en anglais et en 500 mots environ. Taking into account the specificities of the three documents, use the following guidelines to: give a definition of exploration; show how the documents reflect clichés about the discovery of new places; explain how confronting the unknown may question people’s perception of the world. 2ème partie : Traduction en français. Translate the following passage from Document B into French. “We went to visit friends in Catford the other day, where I’d never been in my life, and we set off through the Blackwall Tunnel and realised in fact it’s no distance at all! But once you cycle round London, you take much better control of it than on the Tube or even the bus. You work out your own routes and you know exactly where you are and you know how long it’s going to take you to get from one place to another, and you’re not dependent on the vagaries of the transport system.” (lines 6-12) 21-LLCERANPO3 Page : 2/9 Document A The night air at Honolulu airport was like nothing Bernard had experienced before, warm and velvety, almost palpable. To feel it on your face was like being licked by a large friendly dog, whose breath smelled of frangipani with a hint of petrol, and you felt it almost instantly on arrival, because the walkways – stuffy glazed corridors 5 in most airports, mere extensions of the claustrophobic aircraft cabin – were open at their sides to the air. He and his father were soon sweating again in their thick English clothes, but a light breeze fanned their cheeks and rustled in the floodlit palm trees. A kind of tropical garden had been laid out next to the terminal building, with artificial ponds and streams, and naked torches burning amid the foliage. It was this spectacle 10 which seemed to convince Mr Walsh that they had finally arrived at their destination. He stopped and gawped. “Look at that,” he said. “Jungle.” As they waited beside a carousel in the Arrivals hall, a beautiful brown-skinned young woman in the Travelwise livery came up to them, smiled brilliantly and said, “Aloha! Welcome to Hawaii! My name’s Linda