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          langues,
       littratures et
    cultures trangres
        et rgionales

       anglais monde
        contemporain

    mardi `21 mars `2023
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`2        sujet `1         `3

          sujet `1

  le sujet porte sur la th-
matique "environnements en
mutation".

     partie `1 (`16 pts)

  prenez connaissance du dos-
sier propos, compos des do-
cuments a, b et c non hi-
rarchiss, et traitez en
anglais le sujet suivant
(`500 mots environ):

  taking into account the
specificities of the docu-
ments, say what they show
about the way environmental
issues are perceived and
addressed in the great lakes
area by citizens and authori-
ties.


a`2       sujet `1         `4
     partie `2 (`4 pts)

  traduisez en franais le
passage suivant du document c
(l. `5-10):

  during a speech in lorain,
which borders lake erie,
biden said the funding will
accelerate an effort to resto-
re sites known as "areas of
concern" in the region that
have been polluted by agri-
culture and manufacturing.
the funding bolsters an ef-
fort, known as the great
lakes restoration
initiative, that was launched
in `2010. "it's going to al-
low the most significant
restoration of the great
lakes in the history of the
great lakes," biden told a
crowd of about `60 guests
(...)b.

`3        sujet `1         `5
         document a

      `;dessin adapt en
    texte'

  au centre du dessin, dans
une barque munie d'un petit
moteur, un p2cheur debout,
canne  p2che  la main, porte
un chapeau et une chemise 
manches courtes.
  il tient dans sa main droi-
te un squelette de poisson
accroch  son hameon. le
p2cheur dit "oh, this is just
not right!"
  sous et autour de la
barque, se trouve une tendue
d'eau avec `4 poissons morts
flottant  la surface. deux
petits canards nagent en bas 
droite, chacun des deux porte
un masque sur le bec.
  au fond,  droite de la
barque, le mot "michigan"
est inscrit sur la rive
a`3       sujet `1         `6
surplombe d'un arbre.  c4t
de l'arbre, un panneau en bois
indique "lake erie".
  sous le dessin, figure la
lgende suivante: "warning:
algae bloom spreads across
lake erie again this sum-
mer."
  le sens de "algae" est
fourni en note: "aquatic
plants".
      bruce petush, the
      daily telegram,
      july `21, `2019

  (lake erie is one of five
large interconnected lakes
known as the great lakes,
located between the united
states and canada. they
represent `84 of north
america's surface fresh
water.)b



`4        sujet `1         `7
         document b

  :lake erie now has legal
rights, just like you

  it started in a pub. a
handful of people, hunched
over beers in toledo, ohio,
were talking about a water
crisis that had plagued the
city in `2014. the pollution
of lake erie had gotten so
bad that it had taken a se-
rious toll `1 on their lives.

      `1 had a negative impact

the government, they felt,
wasn't doing enough to protect
the lake. and so they wonde-
red: what if the lake
    l.`5
could protect itself? the
idea they hatched that night
ultimately resulted in a spe-
cial election, which had the
a`4       sujet `1         `8
citizens of toledo voting
february `26 on a very un-
usual question: should lake
erie be granted the legal
rights normally reserved for a
person?
  the measure passed easily,
which means citizens will be
able to sue on behalf of the
lake whenever its right to
flourish is being contravened
`2 - that is, whenever it's
in
    l.`10
danger of major environmental
harm. (...)b

      `2 violated

  this was the first rights-
based legislation aimed at
protecting a whole us eco-
system: the lake, its



b`4       sujet `1         `9
tributaries `3, and the many
species that live off it.

      `3 rivers flowing into a
    lake

the law isn't without prece-
dent, though. it's part of
the nascent rights of nature
movement, which has notched
several victories in the past
dozen years. rivers and fo-
rests have already won
    l.`15
legal rights in countries like
ecuador, colombia, india,
and new zealand.

  activists in the movement
often argue that the envi-
ronment is the next frontier
in humanity's expanding moral
circle: over the centuries,
we've extended rights to more
and more beings, so why
shouldn't nature itself be
c`4       sujet `1        `10
next?
  they reject the conventio-
nal western way of relating
to nature -- as property that
is
    l.`20
ours for the taking, as an
object rather than a subject
-- but they recognize they're
going to have to work within
the existing western legal
system if they want that to
change. they're betting that
the best strategy for pro-
tecting the environment is to
stretch our society's
understanding of what counts
as a person. it's a bold bet,
but with climate change deci-
mating the planet at such a
ferocious rate, it might be
the kind of
    l.`25
innovative thinking we need.
      www.vox.com, february
      `26, `2019
`5        sujet `1        `11
         document c

  :biden touts `1
s`1 billion in funding for
great lakes restoration, du-
ring trip to ohio

      `1 proudly annonces
    
  president biden visited
ohio on thursday to tout
s`1 billion in funding from
the bipartisan `2
infrastructure bill passed
last year that will be used to
clean and restore envi-
ronmentally degraded sites
around the great lakes, a
major source of drinking water
in the region.

      `2 supported by both
    republicans and de-
    mocrats


a`5       sujet `1        `12
    l.`5
  during a speech in lorain,
which borders lake erie,
biden said the funding will
accelerate an effort to resto-
re sites known as "areas of
concern" in the region that
have been polluted by agri-
culture and manufacturing.
the funding bolsters `3 an
effort, known as the great
lakes restoration
initiative, that was launched
in `2010. "it's going to al-
low the most significant
restoration of the great
lakes in the history of the
great lakes,"
    l.`10
biden told a crowd of about
`60 guests, including members
of congress, local elected
officials and labor leaders.

      `3 supports

b`5       sujet `1        `13
  biden said the additional
funding would flow to sites in
six states "making the water
safer for swimming and
fishing, drinking, providing
habitats for wildlife and
wildfowl `4.

      `4 birds that live in
    the wild

"he said the great lakes
provide drinking water for
about `40 million people.
    l.`15
environmental protection
agency administrator
michael regan, who accompa-
nied biden on the trip, told
reporters traveling on air
force one that the infusion
of new funding would be "a
shot in the arm" for his
agency's cleanup efforts.
of `25 sites that remain in
need of restoration, the
c`5       sujet `1        `14
funding would allow the clean-
up of `22 of them by `2030,
regan said. "for many areas
throughout the great lakes
region, including right
    l.`20
here in lorain, the dawn of
industrialization left in its
wake a disastrous legacy of
pollution," regan later said
at the event. "many of these
former industrial sites have
been abandoned and blighted
for years, and the
neighborhoods surrounding the-
se areas and the people who
live in them were also left
behind."
  the great lakes
restoration initiative to
date has provided nearly
s`3 billion for
    l.`25
restoration projects
throughout the great lakes
basin to address "algal
d`5       sujet `1        `15
blooms, invasive species, pol-
lution, and habitat degrada-
tion." thanks to the biparti-
san infrastructure law, this
additional s`1 billion will
go a long way in strengthening
the great lakes preservation
and restoration efforts.

      the washington
      post, february `17,
      `2022














`6        sujet `2        `16

          sujet `2

  le sujet porte sur la th-
matique "relation au monde".

          partie `1
          (`16 pts)

  prenez connaissance du dos-
sier propos, compos des do-
cuments a, b, c et d non
hirarchiss, et traitez en
anglais le sujet suivant
(`500 mots environ):

  taking into account the
specificities of the docu-
ments, say what they reveal
about the evolution of the re-
lations between commonwealth
members and the united
kingdom, focusing on their
common legacy and the current
political challenges.

a`6       sujet `2        `17
          partie `2
           (`4 pts)

  traduisez en franais le
passage suivant du document b
(l. `5-10):

  many former british colo-
nies remain bound together in
the commonwealth, a voluntary
association of `56 countries.
the vast majority of them are
connected by their shared
histories, with similar legal
and political systems, and the
organization promotes
exchanges in fields like
sports, culture and education.
especially for smaller and
newer members, including a few
african countries that were
not british colonies and joi-
ned more recently, the group
can confer prestige (...)b.


`7        sujet `2        `18
         document a

  :barbados parts way with
the queen and becomes world's
newest republic

  after `396 years, the sun
has set on the british mo-
narchy's reign over the
caribbean island of
barbados, with a handover ce-
remony at midnight on monday
marking the birth of the
world's newest republic.
(...)b
  a solemn prince charles
was on hand to witness the
transition. "the creation of
this
    l.`5
republic offers a new begin-
ning," he said in a speech to
the ceremony. "from the
darkest days of our past and
the appalling atrocity of sla-
very, which forever stains our
a`7       sujet `2        `19
history, people of this island
forged their path with
extraordinary fortitude."
(...)b
  announcing the decision to
cut ties `1 with the monarchy
in `2020, prime minister mia
mottley, who led the ceremo-
ny, said the time had come for
barbados to "fully leave our
    l.`10
colonial past behind", though
some in the country said the
moment had been long overdue.
(...)b
      `1 connections

  "it reduces you psychologi-
cally in terms of being a ci-
tizen of your nation, and then
you have public officials who
have to swear allegiance to
this sovereign who is not a
part of their reality," (said
sir hilary beckles, a west
indian historian)b.
b`7       sujet `2        `20
a comprehensive
    l.`15
survey of barbadian attitudes
to the royal family (...)b
suggested that more than `60
of barbadians were in favour
of becoming a republic, half
of them enthusiastically, whi-
le about one in `10 people
preferred to keep the status
quo.
  on an island whose anglo-
phile tendencies once led it
to be dubbed "little
england", where people still
drive on the left, play
cricket at kensington oval
and bathe at
    l.`20
brighton beach, the republic
is part of a wider agenda
building steam across the
caribbean to forge a future
outside a british framework.
      the guardian,
      `30 november `2021
`8        sujet `2        `21
         document b

  :with queen gone, former
colonies find a moment to
rethink lasting ties

  the british royal family
reigned over more territories
and people than any other mo-
narchy in history, and among
the countries that have never
quite let go of the crown,
queen elizabeth's death ac-
celerates a push to address
the past more fully and strip
away the vestiges of colonia-
lism. (...)b
    l.`5
  many former british colo-
nies remain bound together in
the commonwealth, a voluntary
association of `56 countries.
the vast majority of them are
connected by their shared
histories, with similar legal
and political systems, and the
a`8       sujet `2        `22
organization promotes
exchanges in fields like
sports, culture and education.
especially for smaller and
newer members, including a few
african countries that were
not british colonies and joi-
ned
    l.`10
more recently, the group can
confer prestige, and while the
commonwealth has no formal
trade agreement, its members
conduct trade with one another
at higher-than-usual rates.
  most of the commonwealth
members are independent re-
publics, with no formal ties
to the british royal family.
but `14 are constitutional
monarchies that have retained
the
    l.`15
british sovereign as their
head of state, a mostly symbo-
lic role. (...)b
b`8       sujet `2        `23
though prince charles has
now been proclaimed the new
king for all these "realm and
territories," in many of them,
the queen's death has been
greeted with bolder calls for
full independence.
  on saturday, the prime mi-
nister of antigua and
barbuda announced plans to
hold a
    l.`20
referendum on becoming a re-
public within three years. in
australia, the bahamas,
belize, canada and jamaica,
debates that have simmered for
years about their democracies'
ties to a distant kingdom have
started to heat up again.
(...)b
  "the british monarchy has
shown a capacity to evolve
over the ages, from colonial
to a post-colonial monarchy,
and the queen undertook that
c`8       sujet `2        `24
re-creation quite well," said
    l.`25
robert aldrich, a historian
at the university of sydney.
  unlike many of england's
political figures, she was
quick to accept former colo-
nies' independence. (...)b
  but as the queen aged and
receded from view, and as the
world tackled a broader exami-
nation of the sins of colonia-
lization, it became harder to
keep the monarchy at a
    l.`30
benign distance from racism
and the acts of empire. in
former colonies worldwide,
demands for a full accounting
`1 of the pain, suffering and
plundered `2 riches that
helped contribute to the royal
family's enormous wealth have
been increasing. (...)b
      `1 recognition
      `2 stolen
d`8       sujet `2        `25
  and yet, trying to decolo-
nize -- to free a country from
the dominating influence of a
colonizing power -- is an
empire of work in its own
right. the queen gazes from
the
    l.`35
currency of many countries,
and her name graces hospitals
and roads. institutions like

----------------------------`9

the scouts have created gene-
rations who swore allegiance
to the queen, and educational
systems in many countries
still prioritize the british
colonial model.

      :the new york
      times, september `11,
      `2022


a`9       sujet `2        `26
         document c

      `;carte adapte en
    texte'

  titre du planisphre:
"countries where king
charles iii is head of sta-
te".
  un encart, intitul "the
west indies", sur le pla-
nisphre zoome sur les pays
des cara7bes et d'amrique
centrale et masque le conti-
nent sud-amricain.

  tous les pays du planisph-
re correspondant au titre
sont, d'ouest en est:
9o canada
9o united kingdom
9o australia
9o papua new guinea (3les
  au nord de l'australie)
9o solomon islands (3les au
  nord-est de l'australie)
b`9       sujet `2        `27
9o tuvalu (3les au nord-est
  de l'australie)
9o new zealand

  dans l'encart cara7bes /
amrique centrale, d'ouest en
est et du nord au sud, les
pays et 3les qui correspondent
au titre sont:
9o belize
9o jamaica
9o bahamas
9o saint vincent and the
  grenadines
9o saint kitts and nevis
9o antigua and barbuda
9o saint lucia
9o grenada

      :the council on
      foreign relations,
      september `9, `2022




`10       sujet `2        `28
         document d

(australian politicians pay
tribute to queen
elizabeth ii at the
parliament house.)b

      `;photo adapte en
    texte'

  photo en extrieur.
   l'arrire-plan, aligns
devant un b1timent en bton
dont certaines baies vitres
sont ouvertes, on trouve
`10 hommes et `4 femmes.
`6 hommes sont en costume et
cravate; l'un d'eux porte des
dcorations militaires sur sa
veste; `3 hommes au second
plan sont en tenue militaire
et casquette sur la t2te.
tous portent des v2tements de
couleur sombre.


a`10      sujet `2        `29
  au premier plan, la statue
de la reine, vue de profil,
couronne sur la t2te. de
nombreux bouquets de fleurs
ont t dposs  ses pieds et
entourent la statue.

      the canberra
      times, september `10,
      `2022
















