Sujet Anglais LV1 — Terminale — Métropole — Bac 2016

Documennt 1 In his boook, Born too Walk, Daan Rubinsttein descriibes the exxperiencess of severaal walkers, including those of MMatt Green.. Green used to have a girlffriend and a respectaable career as a trannsportation engineer. Then the relationshiip ended aand he founnd it difficuult to justifyy doing a joob he didn''t enjoy forr 5 money hee didn't neeed. Feelingg anxious and cravinng adventuure, he turned his baack on fivee years of highway and roadwway design and waalked acrooss the Unnited Statees. Greenn departed from Rockkaway Beaach, Queeens, in March 2010, wearing aa reflectivee vest andd pushing hhis campingg gear in aa running sstroller, andd arrived, ffive months later, in Rockawayy Beach, OOregon. WWhile prepaaring for thhe trip, hee was bommbarded bby suggesstions thatt 10 sounded llike commaands: You have to goo there, yoou need to see that. Instead, hee plotted aa direct linee to Chicago, to visit hhis brotherr, and westt to the Paccific. Withouut specific destinatioons to antiicipate, Grreen couldd appreciatte anythingg he saw, anywheree he was, instead off counting the miless until he rreached, ssay, Southh Dakota’ss Mount Ruushmore. “TTo see inteeresting thhings, you don’t needd to know wwhat you’rre going too 15 see,” he ssays. “Thaat’s letting other peopple’s preferences preejudice youur reactionn. You cann just walk across NNorth Dakoota. I’ve ddriven acrooss placess like thatt, and it’s incrediblyy boring.” When he returneed to Neww York, Grreen's plann to find aa job and settle dowwn was noo longer pallatable. Sloowly, his next journeyy took shape. 20 New YYork, like aall cities, is complexx and bewwildering. “DDon't try too seek ouut anythingg particular,, don't eveen bother trying to drraw any coonclusions,” he says. “Just listeen to whatt the city haas to tell yoou … and llet your owwn unique iinstincts guuide you.” Green is mostly looking forr those humman momeents that coonnect us tto the urbaan web. By thee end of hhis New Yoork odysseey, Matt GGreen will have coveered roughhly 14,0000 25 kilometress. “Do yoou ever gett bored while walkingg?” I ask. Some parts of thhe city, succh as Harleem, are more lively tthan quieteer, suburbaan places, like Long Island, hee concedees. “But this walk haas made mme think aabout whatt boredomm means. NNobody askked me that question when I wwas an enngineer annd I sat in a cubicle, 30 under fluoorescent ligghts, doingg pretty muuch the samme thing aall day every day. Ouut here, it'ss always