Bac 2012 S L Anglais LV2 Corrige

Bac S et L 2012 – Sujet corrigé d'anglais LV2 Proposition de correction Sujet L et S LV2 juin 2012 I COMPREHENSION 1 The main character is called Adam Kindred and he seems to be on the run . He is wearing a long beard and no longer wearing a raincoat. He tried to change his appearance, especially the way he looked on a photo taken during a wedding. His problems seems to have started that day and his photo has been posted everywhere in the city. We learn he has £18.78 in cash in his pockets. 2 The main character is walking in a big city, London, in Great Britain - l 29/30 : « emerging from the Underground station, … St Botoph’s Hospital » (you may not know that St Botolph’s hospital is in London but the Underground station could give you a clue…) - numerous allusions to an urban environment :l 7 « the city », l 10 « the many cash machines he had passed », l 12 « a modern twenty-first city », l 47/48 « a cluster of glass and steel coumns that contained the scenic elevators serving the nine floors of St Botolph’s. » From line 1 to line 28 3 Adam wants to become anonymous, unrecognizable, invisible .He doesn’t want people to notice him. He wants to integrate the missing people population which is increasing in Great Britain. 4 He changed his looks, so as not to match the photo of the wedding. He doesn’t want to be spotted with the technological devices of our modern world, that’s why he doesn’t want to use cash machines and his credit card. He only relies on his cash.