Sujet du brevet 2023 d'anglais — Amérique du Nord — candidats libres

23LVANAN1 Page : DIPLÔME NATIONAL DU BREVET SESSION 2023 Épreuve de langue vivante étrangère : ANGLAIS TOUTES SÉRIES Durée : 1 heure 30 L’usage de la calculatrice et du dictionnaire n’est pas autorisé. Dès que le sujet vous est remis, assurez-vous qu’il est complet. Le sujet comporte 5 pages numérotées de à . Le candidat répondra directement sur le sujet, sans le dégrafer. Le sujet est rendu dans son intégralité en fin d’épreuve. Le candidat veille à compléter le cartouche d’anonymat au verso des pages indiquées. Barème : I. COMPRÉHENSION D’UN TEXTE ÉCRIT 50 points II. EXPRESSION ÉCRITE 50 points 23LVANAN1 Page : The Ickabog The legend of the Ickabog had been passed down by generations of Marshlanders1, and spread by word of mouth all the way to Chouxville. [...] The Ickabog, they said, had extraordinary pow ers. It could imitate the human voice to lure2 travellers into its clutches. If you tried to kill it, it would mend 3 magically, or else split into4 two Ickabogs; it could fly, spurt fire , shoot poison – the Ickabog’s powers were 5 as great as the imagination of the teller. ‘Mind you don’t leave the garden while I’m working,’ parents all over the kingdom would tell their children, ‘or the Ickabog will catch you and eat you all up!’ And throughout the land, boys and girls played at fighting the Ickabog, tried to frighten each other with the tale of the Ickabog [...]. 10 Bert Beamish was one such little boy. When a family called the Dovetails came over for dinner one night, Mr Dovetail entertained everybody with what he claimed was the latest news of the Ickabog. That night, five-year-old Bert woke, sobbing and terrified, from a dream in which the monster’s huge white eyes were gleaming at him across a foggy marsh into which he was slowly sinking5. 15 J.K. Rowling, The Ickabog, 2020 1 Marshlanders: le peuple des …