Recherche Corrigé Bac 2003 L

[chingy59]

Bonjour à tous, je viens d'avoir bac blanc en anglais, et je suis tombé sur ce sujet assez dur... Je recherche le corrigé de ce devoir:

http://anglais.ac-bordeaux.fr/liens/ct-esslv12.htm

Si quelqu'un pouvait m'aider, j'ai cherché sur google et rien du tout a part du payant :s

En gros, si vous comprenez le texte j'ai en fait parlé que la fille avait rompu avec la religion, et que cela déplaisait sa mere... Ayant vu le mot "faith et sin" je pense que ca devrait tourner autour de cela et des préjugés...

merci!!

[yveslouis]

Voici une correction (vite faite et écrite en majuscules) qui pourra t'aider, je l'espère.

Everything was ready, the suitcase closed, her black velvet coatcollar carefully brushed, and a list pinned to the wall reminding her husband when to feed the hens and turkeys, and what foodstuffs to give them. She was setting out on a visit to her daughter Claire in London, just like any mother, except that her daughter was different: she'd lost her faith, and she mixed with queer people and wrote poems. If it was stories one could detect the sin in them, but these poems made no sense at all and therefore seemed more wicked. Her daughter had sent the money for the air-ticket. [...]

The journey was pleasant once she'd got over the shock of being strapped down for the take-off. As they went higher and higher she looked out at the very white, wispish cloud and thought of the wash tub and hoped her husband would remember to change his shirt while she was away. The trip would have been perfect but there was a screaming woman who had to be calmed down by the air hostess. She looked like a woman who was being sent to a mental institution, but did not know it.

Claire met her mother at the airport and they kissed warmly, not having seen each other for over a year.

"Have you stones in it?" Claire said, taking the fibre suitcase. It was doubly secured with a new piece of binding twine*. Her mother wore a black straw bat with clusters of cherries on both sides of the brim.

"You were great to meet me," the mother said.

"Of course I'd meet you," Claire said, easing her mother right back on the taxi seat. It was a long ride and they might as well be comfortable.

"I could have navigated," the mother said, and Claire said nonsense a little too brusquely. Then to make amends she asked gently how the journey was.

Oh I must tell you, there was this peculiar woman and she was screaming."

Claire listened and stiffened, remembering her mother's voice that became low and dramatic in a crises, the same voice that said, "Sweet Lord your father will kill us," or, ""What's to become of us, the bailiff is here," or, "Look, look, the chimney is on fire."

"But otherwise?" Claire said. This was a holiday, not an expedition into the past.

"We had tea and sandwiches. 1 couldn't eat mine, the bread was buttered."

"Still faddy?**" Claire said. Her mother got bilious if she touched butter, fish, olive oil, or eggs; although her daily diet was mutton stew, or home-cured bacon.

"Anyhow, 1 have nice things for you," Claire said. She had bought in stocks of biscuits, jellies and preserves because they were the things her mother favoured, these foods that she herself found distasteful.

The first evening passed well enough. The mother unpacked the presents -a chicken, bread, eggs, a tapestry of a church spire which she'd done all winter, stitching at it until she was almost blind, a holy water font, ashtrays made from shells, lamps converted from bottles, and a picture of a matador assembled by sticking small varnished pebbles on to hardboard.

Claire laid them along the mantleshelf in the kitchen, and stood back, not so much to admire them as to see how incongruous they looked, piled together.

"Thank you," she said to her mother, as tenderly as she might have when she was a child. These gifts touched her, especially the tapestry, although it was ugly. She thought of the winter nights and the smoking (they expected the electricity to be installed soon), and her mother hunched over her work, not even using a thimble**** to ease the needle through, because she believed in sacrifice, and her father turning to say, "Could I borrow your grasses, Mam, I want to have a look at the paper ?" He was too lazy to have his own eyes tested and believed that his wife's glasses were just as good. She could picture them at the fire night after night, the turf***** flames green and fitful****** the hens locked up, foxes prowling around in the wind, outside.

Edna O'Brien, Cords, 1972.

*binding twine : grosse ficelle

**faddy : difficile

*** Aladdin lamp

**** thimble : dé à coudre

*****turf

****** fitful

COMPREHENSION

1) Who are the main characters in the text? 2 LIGNES...

THE MAIN CHARACTERS ARE CLAIRE, WHO LIVES IN LONDON, AND HER MOTHER WHOM SHE HASN'T SEEN FOR MORE THAN A YEAR.

2) What other character is mentioned? ...

CLAIRE'S FATHER IS ANOTHER CHARACTER MENTIONED IN THE TEXT.

3) TWO DIFFERENT SETTINGS ARE EVOKED IN THE TEXT : IRELAND AND LONDON.

Say where each of the main characters lives. Justify by quoting from the text

1. 2 LIGNES... CLAIRE'S MOTHER AND HER HUSBAND LIVE IN IRELAND. (Couldn't find any quotations !)

2. 2 LIGNES... CLAIRE LIVES IN LONDON : " SHE WAS SETTING OUT ON A VISIT TO HER DAUGHTER CLAIRE IN LONDON"

4) Who is visiting whom? sum up the situation in one sentence using the following words.

to pay a visit . London. over a year

CLAIRE HASN'T PAID A VISIT TO HER MOTHER IN LONDON FOR OVER A YAR.

5) How is she travelling. Quote three elements front the text to justify your answer.

1... SHE IS TRAVELLING BY PLANE :

THE SHOCK OF BEING STRAPPED DOWN FOR THE TAKE-OFF.

2.... THEY WENT HIGHER AND HIGHER

3.... THE AIR HOSTESS

6) Why is she travelling alone? 2 LIGNES...

SHE'S TRAVELLING ALONE BECAUSE HER HUSBAND HAD TO STAY HOME TO FEED THE HENS AND TURKEYS:

7) What two complaints does she make after the journey? 4 LIGNES...

AFTER THE JOURNEY SHE COMPLAINS THAT THERE WAS LA WOMAN SCREAMING IN THE PLANE. MAYBE SHE WAS A LUNATIC.

SHE ALSO COMPLAINS BECAUSE OF THE BUTTER IN THE SANDWICHES.

8) Quoting from the text (italiques) give three examples which indicate tension between the protagonists.

1. "HAVE YOU STONES IN IT?" CLAIRE SAID, TAKING THE FIBRE SUITCASE.

2.... CLAIRE SAID NONSENSE A LITTLE TOO BRUSQUELY

3. CLAIRE LISTENED AND STIFFENED. + "STILL FADDY?"

9) Pick out four details showing that Claire is doing her best to please her mother. Quote from the text.

1. "OF COURSE I'D MEET YOU,"

2.... EASING HER MOTHER RIGHT BACK ON THE TAXI SEAT

3.... "THANK YOU," SHE SAID TO HER MOTHER, AS TENDERLY AS SHE MIGHT

4.... THESE GIFTS TOUCHED HER, ESPECIALLY THE TAPESTRY

10) Using the information from the text compare and contrast the two protagonists' life-styles, beliefs and values. 60 WORDS...

You do that one, not I.

11) "This was a holiday, not an expedition into the past."

1. Whose point of view is being expressed here?

THIS SENTENCE EXPRESSES CLAIRE'S POINT OF VIEW.

2. Explain in your own words what is meant. 30 WORDS...

IT MEANS THAT CLAIRE DOESN'T WANT TO RECALL BAD MEMORIES FROM HER PAST. SHE HAS MOVED TO LONDON TO LIVE A MORE MODERN LIFE. SHE IS SOMEWHAT SHAMEFUL OF HER LIFE IN IRELAND

Now, it's up to you !

EXPRESSI0N

Traitez les deux sujets.

1) After returning home the mother writes a letter to her daughter. (100 words)

2) Do you think there is still a conflict between generations? justify your answer. (200 words)

TRADUCTION

Translate from "The trip would have been" to "for over a year" .