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SUJET 1 Le sujet porte sur la thématique « Expression et construction de soi ». 1re partie. Synthèse en anglais (16 points) Prenez connaissance de la thématique ci-dessus et du dossier composé des documents A, B et C et répondez en anglais à la consigne suivante (500 mots environ) :
SUJET 1 Le sujet porte sur la thématique « Expression et construction de soi ». 1re partie. Synthèse en anglais (16 points) Prenez connaissance de la thématique ci-dessus et du dossier composé des documents A, B et C et répondez en anglais à la consigne suivante (500 mots environ) : Paying particular attention to the specificities of the three documents, show how they interact to underline the links between belonging to a community and one’s identity. 2e partie. Traduction en français (4 points) Traduisez en français le passage suivant du document A (lignes 24 à 30) : This was truly her; this was the voice with which she would speak if she were woken up from a deep sleep during an earthquake. Still, she resolved that if the Amtrak woman responded to her accent by speaking too slowly as though to an idiot, then she would put on her Mr Agbo Voice, the mannered, overcareful pronunciations she had learned during debate meetings in secondary school when the bearded Mr Agbo, tugging at his frayed tie, played BBC recordings on his cassette player […]. 23-LLCERANME1 Page 2/10 Document A “May I ask who I’m talking to?” “My name is Ifemelu.” He repeated her name with exaggerated care. “Is it a French name?” “No. Nigerian.” 5 “That where your family came from?” “Yes.” She scooped the eggs onto a plate. “I grew up there.” “Oh, really? How long have you been in the US?” “Three years.” “Wow. Cool. You sound totally American.” 10 “Thank you.” Only after she hung up did she begin to feel the stain of a burgeoning shame spreading all over her, for thanking him, for crafting his words “You sound American” into a garland that she hung around her own neck. Why was it a compliment, an accomplishment, to sound American? She had won; Cristina Tomas, pallid-faced 15 Cristina Tomas under whose gaze she had shrunk like a small, defeated animal, would speak to her normally now. She had won, indeed, but her triumph was full of air. Her fleeting victory had left in its wake a vast, echoing space, because she had taken on, for too long, a pitch of voice and a way of being that was not hers. And so she finished eating her eggs and resolved to stop faking the American accent. She first spoke 20 without the American accent that afternoon at Thirtieth