Sujet Anglais LV1 — Terminale — Pondichéry — Bac 2017

Document 1 BEREA, Ohio — Books are not Nadia Konyk’s thing. Her mother, hoping to entice(1) her, brings them home from the library(2), but Nadia rarely shows an interest. Instead, like so many other teenagers, Nadia, 15, is addicted to the Internet. She regularly spends at least six hours a day in front of the computer here in this suburb 5 southwest of Cleveland. Her mother, Deborah Konyk, would prefer that Nadia, who gets A’s and B’s at school, read books for a change. But at this point, Ms. Konyk said, “I’m just pleased that she reads something.” Children like Nadia lie at the heart of a passionate debate about just what it means to 10 read in the digital age. The discussion is playing out among educational policy makers and reading experts around the world, and within groups like the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association. As teenagers’ scores on reading tests have declined or stagnated, some argue that the hours spent on the Internet are the enemy of reading and destroy a precious 15 common culture that exists only through the reading of books. But others say the Internet has created a new kind of reading, one that schools and society should not discount. The Web inspires a teenager like Nadia, who might otherwise spend most of her leisure time watching television, to read and write. What’s best for Nadia? Deborah Konyk always believed it was essential for Nadia and 20 her 8-year-old sister, Yashca, to read books. She regularly read aloud to the girls and took them to library story hours. “Reading opens up doors to places that you probably will never get to visit in your lifetime, to cultures, to worlds, to people,” Ms. Konyk said. Ms. Konyk, who took a part-time job at a dollar store chain a year and a half ago, said 25 she did not have much time to read books herself. There are few books in the house. But after Yashca was born, Ms. Konyk spent the baby’s nap time reading the Harry Potter novels to Nadia, and she regularly brought home new titles from the library. Despite these efforts, Nadia never became a big reader. Instead, she became obsessed with Japanese anime cartoons on television and comics like “Sailor Moon.” 30 Then, when she was in the sixth grade(3), the family bought its first computer.