Axe culturel 2 — Espace privé et espace public : libertés civiles, droits fondamentaux et devoirs citoyens dans le monde anglophone (programme de Tle LVA)
Évaluation complète de fin de chapitre, tout en niveau difficile. Travaille seul et sans aide, puis vérifie tes réponses avec le corrigé détaillé dépliable en bas de page.
Read the following article carefully, then answer the questions in English. Use your own words as much as possible and justify your answers with quotations from the text (give the line where relevant).
Find in the article above the word or expression that matches each definition, and copy it exactly.
Transform or complete each sentence as instructed. Mind the tense and the nuance.
Write a structured argumentative text of 150–200 words in English. Introduce the issue, develop at least two arguments with concrete examples (cultural, historical or contemporary), include a nuance or counter-argument, and finish with a clear personal conclusion. Use connectors and the vocabulary of the axis.
Exercice 1 — Reading comprehension
Corrigé (réponse-type) :
1. (1 pt) The public square has been the centre of democratic life: the place where individuals become a collective ('strangers become a public'), where personal grievances turn into shared political demands, and where weaker groups gain strength through the crowd. It is presented as inseparable from citizenship itself.
2. (1.5 pts) Supporters argue that public order and safety must come first: protests can block emergency vehicles and trap ordinary commuters. Quotation: 'emergency vehicles […] cannot be trapped behind a slow-moving march' / 'ordinary commuters should not be held hostage by other people's causes'. (Idea = a right must not ignore the duties we owe others.)
3. (1.5 pts) The author warns that if the government alone decides which protests are acceptable, it can suppress the very voices it dislikes ('silence precisely the voices it finds least comfortable'). History shows that movements now admired — suffrage, civil rights, minority rights — were once dismissed as 'disorderly'; had they obeyed every rule, they would have remained unheard.
4. (1 pt) A true democracy should not be judged by how comfortable or compliant its silent, conforming citizens are, but by its capacity to accept disturbance, dissent and inconvenience from those who protest loudly. Tolerating disruption is the real test of freedom.
Barème : exactitude des idées + reformulation personnelle + citation pertinente. Pénaliser le simple recopiage non reformulé.
Exercice 2 — Vocabulary in context
Corrigé :
1. (1 pt) filling the streets (on accepte aussi 'occupy public space', idée d'investir l'espace public).
2. (1 pt) legislation.
3. (1 pt) disruptive (ou 'too disruptive').
4. (1 pt) shrinking ('that space is shrinking').
1 point par item si le terme est exact et correctement orthographié.
Exercice 3 — Grammar in use
Corrigé :
1. (1 pt) The right to protest has been restricted (by the government). [passive present perfect]
2. (1 pt) A peaceful protester must not (mustn't / cannot) resort to violence. [interdiction]
3. (1 pt) Citizens are allowed to (may / can) criticise their leaders openly. [permission]
4. (1 pt) Every demonstration is being watched by the police. [passive be+ing présent]
1 point par réponse correcte ; pénaliser une erreur de temps ou d'auxiliaire.
Exercice 4 — Written expression
Points attendus :
• Thèse 'duty to obey' : la stabilité repose sur l'État de droit (rule of law) ; sans respect de la loi, la société sombre dans le chaos ; les voies légales (vote, justice, pétition) existent pour changer une loi injuste.
• Thèse 'duty to disobey' : la désobéissance civile non-violente (Thoreau, Gandhi, M. L. King) a fait progresser les droits ; obéir aveuglément peut légitimer l'injustice (ségrégation, refus du droit de vote aux femmes) ; King : 'one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws'.
• Nuance attendue : la désobéissance n'est légitime que si elle est non-violente, publique, et que l'on accepte la sanction (Rosa Parks arrêtée) ; distinction entre loi injuste et simple désaccord.
• Lexique de l'axe : civil disobedience, unjust law, the common good, rule of law, the harm principle.
Exemple de production :
In a democracy, the relationship between citizens and the law is rarely simple. On the one hand, respecting the law is a basic civic duty: the rule of law protects everyone, and democracies offer legal ways — voting, courts, petitions — to change rules we find unfair. Blindly breaking laws would soon lead to chaos. On the other hand, history reminds us that some laws are deeply unjust. Segregation in the American South was perfectly legal, yet Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King chose civil disobedience to expose it. As King wrote, citizens have 'a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws'. However, such disobedience is only legitimate when it is non-violent, public, and when protesters accept the consequences, as Parks did when she was arrested. In my opinion, citizens owe loyalty to justice rather than to any particular law. Respecting the law should be the rule, but defying an unjust one — peacefully and openly — can become a higher duty to the common good.
Barème : contenu et argumentation (3 pts) + lexique de l'axe (1 pt) + grammaire et connecteurs (1.5 pts) + structure et longueur (0.5 pt) = 6 pts (ramené sur 7 dans le total).
Cours particuliers de anglais (lva) à Marseille, en présentiel ou à distance — un prof qui s'adapte à ton rythme et reprend ce qui coince.