Sujet du brevet 2024 d'anglais — Amérique du Sud — candidats libres

24LVANAS1 Page DIPLÔME NATIONAL DU BREVET SESSION 2024 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 24LVANAS1 Page The Tower of London is celebrating the end of its longest closure since World War Two by asking the public to name a raven chick. Born in March, the young corvid 1 will be named either Florence, Matilda, Branwen, Bronte or Winifred. The unnamed chick and her brother Edgar - named after writer Edgar Allan Poe - will take the Tower's number of resident ravens to nine. Ravenmaster Chris Skaife said he was “delighted” to have two new chicks. 5 The legend of the ravens says that if the birds leave the Tower, the kingdom will fall, with King Charles II thought to be the first monarch to demand their protection. The raven chicks were born in March to the Tower's resident breeding pair, Huginn and Muninn. Their birth came two months after the Tower’s ‘queen’ raven, Merlina, went missing and was presumed dead. 10 “We're delighted to have two new chicks joining the raven community here at the Tower,” Yeoman Warder2 Chris Skaife said. “There's a lot of pressure when picking names for these famous feathered residents.” […] The Tower has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, but the attraction is ready 15 to open its doors again on 19 May with a number of safety measures in place for visitors. The winning name will be announced as …