Sujet du bac 2019 de anglais — Amérique du Nord (général)

1 / 7 19AN1GEAN1 BACCALAURÉAT GÉNÉRAL Session 2019 ANGLAIS Langue Vivante 1 Durée de l’épreuve : 3 heures Séries ES/S – coefficient : 3 Série L langue vivante obligatoire (LVO) – coefficient : 4 Série L LVO et langue vivante approfondie (LVA) – coefficient : 8 L’usage de la calculatrice et du dictionnaire n’est pas autorisé. Ce sujet comporte 7 pages numérotées de à . Dès que ce sujet vous est remis, assurez-vous qu’il est complet. Répartition des points Compréhension 10 points Expression 10 points 2 / 7 19AN1GEAN1 DOCUMENT A Author’s Note In April 1992, a young man from a well-to-do East C oast family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. M cKinley. Four months later his decomposed body was found by a party of moose hunters. Shortly after the discovery of the corpse, I was a sked by the editor of Outside magazine to report on the puzzling circumstances of the boy’s death. His name turned 5 out to be Christopher Johnson McCandless. He’d grow n up, I learned, in an affluent suburb of Washington, D.C., where he’d excelled academically and had been an elite athlete. Immediately after graduating, with honors, from Em ory University in the summer of 1990, McCandless dropped out of sight. He changed his name, gave the entire balance 10 of a twenty-four-thousand-dollar savings account to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet. And then, he invented a new life for himself, taking up residence at the ragged margin of our society, wandering across North America in search of raw 1, transcendent experience. His family had no idea where he was or what had become of him until his remains turned up in Alaska. 15 Working on a tight deadline, I wrote a nine-thousa nd-word article, which ran in the January 1993 issue of the magazine, but my fascinat …