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SUJET 1 Le sujet porte sur la thématique « Expression et construction de soi » 1ère partie Prenez connaissance de la thématique ci-dessus et du dossier composé des documents A, B, C et traitez en anglais la consigne suivante (500 mots environ) : Taking into account the specificities of the
SUJET 1 Le sujet porte sur la thématique « Expression et construction de soi » 1ère partie Prenez connaissance de la thématique ci-dessus et du dossier composé des documents A, B, C et traitez en anglais la consigne suivante (500 mots environ) : Taking into account the specificities of the documents, analyse the impact books can have on people. 2ème partie Traduction : Translate the following passage from document B into French. L’usage du dictionnaire unilingue non encyclopédique est autorisé. None of us had any experience of literary societies, so we made our own rules: we took turns to speak about the books we’d read. At the start, we tried to be calm and objective, but that soon fell away, and the purpose of the speakers was to goad the listeners into wanting to read the book themselves. Once two members had read the same book, they could argue, which was our great delight. We read books, talked books, argued over books, and became dearer and dearer to one another. (lines 26-32) 24-LLCERANG11 Page : 2/10 DOCUMENT A Penguin Books advertising campaign, « Escape into a book », 2008 24-LLCERANG11 Page : 3/10 DOCUMENT B The novel is about a book club created on the island of Guernsey (one of the Channel Islands) during the second World War. Odd as it may sound, the Germans allowed – and even encouraged – artistic and cultural pursuits among the Channel Islanders. Their object was to prove to the British that the German Occupation was a model one. How this message was to be conveyed to the outside world was never explained, as the telephone and telegraph 5 cable between Guernsey and London had been cut the day the Germans landed in June 1940. Whatever their skewed reasoning, the Channel Islands were treated much more leniently than the rest of conquered Europe – at first. At the Commandant’s Office, my friends were ordered to pay a small fine and submit the name and membership list of their society. The Commandant announced 10 that he, too, was a lover of literature – might he, with a few like-minded officers, sometimes attend meetings? […] And so it was that we began. I knew all our members, but I did not know them all well. Dawsey had been my neighbour for over thirty years, and yet I don’t believe I had ever spoken to him about