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SUJET n°1 Le sujet porte sur la thématique « Voyages, territoires, frontières » Partie 1 (16 pts) : prenez connaissance des documents A, B et C et traitez le sujet suivant en anglais : Write a commentary on the three documents (about 500 words): taking into account the specificities of
SUJET n°1 Le sujet porte sur la thématique « Voyages, territoires, frontières » Partie 1 (16 pts) : prenez connaissance des documents A, B et C et traitez le sujet suivant en anglais : Write a commentary on the three documents (about 500 words): taking into account the specificities of the documents, show how one’s identity is questioned when going from one territory to another. Partie 2 (4 pts) : traduisez le passage suivant du document B en français : Most of the day, we wandered around the duty-free store, which wasn’t very large. The manager had a name tag with a tiny American flag on one side, and a tiny Canadian flag on the other. His name was Mel. Towards evening, he began suggesting that we should be on our way. I told him we had nowhere to go, that neither the Americans nor the Canadians would let us in. He laughed at that and told us that we should buy something or leave. (l. 22-27) 23-LLCERANNC1 Page 2 sur 10 DOCUMENT A We are at the border. He has by now convinced his Canadian girlfriend to let him drive. He is stubborn. He is a Trinidadian man. […] I become nervous; for my career in broadcasting is on the tip of his tongue should he mispronounce "Toronto" and cause us to be sent back across the border, into the cold, dark blackness that is a Canadian 5 night in November. But I am practising my pronunciation, just in case the immigration officer should ask me first, “Where do you live, sir?,” since we do not have the visa necessary to enter the United States. “Trahnnnh! Tranno! Trannah!” We can see the border. It is dark and foreboding, meaning the cement structure, and 10 the stalls, and the Stars and Stripes; and the music coming through the tinny speakers does not help our mood. And, before we know it, the three of us are shaking inside the darkened car, and, beside us, bending down, to see who sits in the darkness inside the car, and making a sign with his hands that the window should be rolled down, is an American, an immigration officer, shivering in the Canadian cold to which he has been 15 exposed during his eight-hour shift. And when the Trinidadian has succeeded in his fumbling to lower the window — it is a manual window