corrigé anglais LV1 général

Bac 2018 Épreuve de LV1 anglais Séries L‐ES‐S Le sujet est composé de deux textes et d’un document visuel, ce qui est conforme aux autres années. En revanche, le texte A peut être un peu déconcertant, car il traite d’un point de vue littéraire deux thèmes qui manquent légèrement de modernité : les vieux trains et la philatélie (collectionner les timbres postes). Il y a des chances que cela ne parle pas beaucoup aux lycéens 2.0 que vous êtes. Mais gardons la tête froide. Le sujet global est l’idée de progrès, appliquée au domaine du transport ferroviaire. Partie Compréhension A. 1)TRUE: “Then he found his first railroad stamp.” (l. 3) 2) FALSE: “where everything goes for a penny” (l. 2) 3) TRUE: “he couldn't stop his finger from running over its rough skin” (ll. 5‐6) 4) TRUE: “a locomotive and a car or two speeding off the right edge” (ll. 7‐8) B. Réponse A “A nibble off the top left edge was missing” (ll. 4‐5) “with a little puff of steam” (l. 8) C. For the protagonist, trains are means to leave the old world and reach a new one. “to suggest departure from an old world and speed across the border into the new.” (l. 9) In his view, trains symbolize the notion of possibility, and imagination. “the artist had composed the definition of dreaming.” (ll. 13‐4) D. Alphonse respected the beauty of the work that went into making this stamp. For him, these stamps opened windows into new worlds of his own imagination. E.