Sujet Anglais — Terminale — Métropole — Bac 2013

Document 1: Grand Tour of Europe Young English elites of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries often spent two to four years traveling around Europe in an effort to broaden their horizons and learn about language, architecture, geography, and culture in an experience known as the Grand Tour. The Grand Tour began in the sixteenth century and gained popularity during the seventeenth century. 5 The term Grand Tour was introduced by Richard Lassels in his 1670 book Voyage to Italy. Additional guidebooks, tour guides, and the tourist industry were developed and grew to meet the needs of the 20-something male and female travelers and their tutors across the European continent. The young tourists were wealthy and could afford the multiple years abroad. The Grand Tourists were primarily interested in visiting those cities that were considered the 10 major centers of culture at the time - Paris, Rome, and Venice were not to be missed. Florence and Naples were also popular destinations. Paris was definitely the most popular city as French was the most common second language of the British elite, the roads to Paris were excellent, and Paris was a most impressive city to the English. From Paris, Tourists would proceed across the Alps or take a boat on the Mediterranean Sea to 15 Italy. Rome was initially the southernmost point they would travel to. However, when excavations began of Herculaneum (1738) and Pompeii (1748), the two sites became major destinations on the Grand Tour. While the goal of the Grand Tour was educational, a great deal of time was also spent in more frivolous pursuits. 20 Upon their return to England, Tourists were supposedly ready to take on the responsibilities of an aristocrat. The Grand Tour as an institution was ultimately worthwhile for the Tour has been given credit for a dramatic improvement in British architecture and culture. The French Revolution in 1789 marked the end of the Grand Tour, and in the early nineteenth century, railroads totally changed the face of tourism and travel across the continent. Matt Rosenberg About.com 13ANTEV2ME3 Page : 2/5 Document 2: You Can’t Pick Up Raindrops Bob and I are Peace Corps volunteers in small, not-quite-a-village, Puñal, twenty-five miles south of Santiago de los Caballeros in the Cibao Valley of the northern Dominican Republic. We live on the second floor of the pale lime-green, wooden casa curial or parish house, next to the small