BACCALAUREAT GENERAL
SESSION 2020 ANGLAIS
Série L Durée: 3h30-coefficient 6 Série ES Durée : 3h00- coefficient 4 Série SG Durée : 3h00- coefficient 4 Série S Durée : 3h00- coefficient 3
Ce sujet comporte 5 pages numérotées de 1 à 5
Contenus Série ES, S et SG Série L
Compréhension écrite 12 14
Compétence linguistique 08 08
Expression écrite 10 18
Total 30 40
• Les candidats devront composer uniquement sur la copie d’examen distribuée au début de l’épreuve.
• L’usage du dictionnaire et du téléphone portable est interdit.
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It’s the second day of Ramadan, and Ramla Ali is wrapping her hands at a boxing gym in London’s East End. It’s now midafternoon, and as a practicing Muslim, Ali hasn’t had any food or drink since before dawn. “I’m still training,” the featherweight says as she gets ready for a workout. “Which is obviously really hard.”
The first Muslim woman to win an English boxing title, Ali has her sights set on the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. There, should she qualify, she will become the first boxer of any gender to represent her country of birth, Somalia, which sent only two athletes to the 2016 Rio Games.
Her path here hasn’t been easy. When she was a child during the Somali civil war in the early 1990s, her family fled their Mogadishu home after her older brother was killed by a stray grenade. They escaped the country via a perilous boat journey to Kenya, and eventually ended up in London.
At school, Ali was bullied for being overweight, until she discovered boxing in her teens.
Even after she started fighting competitively, she hid her passion from her family, worried her mother would think it was immodest. “I knew she would never be supportive,” Ali says. The day she won the English title in 2016, she told her family she was going for a run.
As Ali’s profile increased, her mother eventually found out and asked her to stop—which she did, if only temporarily. “I understood, because she grew up in a different era to me,”
Ali says. “But there was resentment at the same time. How can you not understand that this is what I love?
Eighteen months ago, an uncle in Mogadishu eventually helped reassure Ali’s mother that the community was happy, not ashamed. By then, Ali had made the decision to represent Somalia, rather than the U.K., at the international level. “He called me up and told me he was really proud of me,” she says. “I’d never had a senior family member say that.”
Now, Ali’s mother is her biggest fan, though she has still never been to see her fight in person. That might soon change. In May, after Ali returned from a tournament in Botswana, her mother made her a promise. “She said, ‘If you get to Tokyo, I’ll book my ticket and I’ll see you there.’”
When she’s not traveling around the world for competitions, Ali runs free weekly self- defense classes for women in South London. The sessions are particularly popular with Muslim women who want to learn to protect themselves in a women-friendly environment.
As a refugee whose adoptive country gave her so many opportunities, Ali is equally aware that African boxers who train in their home nations aren’t adequately represented at the top flight of boxing. That’s why she’s raising funds to bring the Botswana boxing team, who welcomed her on her recent trip, to the U.K. for a week of training ahead of the All Africa Games. “The thing that sets them apart from other countries is not their skill,” she says. “It’s just the fact that they don’t have the same opportunities.”
Ali hopes others will be inspired not to give up on sports. “Don’t be discouraged just because someone told you it’s not what a girl should do,” she says. “Just do what makes you happy.”
I) COMPREHENSION (12 points pour les séries ES/S/SG. 14 points pour la série L)
A. Complete the table with information from the text:
1.Main character’s name
2.Approximate age when she started practicing
3.Adoptive country 4.Birth country 5. Sport she practices
B. Answer the following questions:
1. For which game is Ramla training for? Where is it taking place?
2. Why did she learn boxing?
3. What was the reason that pushes her to hide from her family that she was boxing?
4. What does Ramla do in her free time? Where?
5. Why is she raising funds to help other boxing teams?
C. Find out the synonyms of these words from the paragraphs:
1. Flee: paragraph 3 2. Competition: paragraph 7
D. Who or what do the following words refer to:
1. “How can you not understand that this is what I love?” (l.21):
2. He called me up (l.24):
E. SEULS LES CANDIDATS DE LA SERIE « L » TRAITERONT LES QUESTIONS SUIVANTES. 1point/question
1. Explain what the narrator meant by “I understand because she grew up in a different era to me” (l.19)?
2. Whose approval beside her mother mattered to Ramla? Explain in your own words?
II) LINGUISTIC COMPETENCE (8 points)
Some words or grammar parts are missing from the text below. Choose the most appropriate one for each gap in the text. There is an example at the beginning (0).
Taylor, 32, ---0--- sampled highs and lows, inside and outside of the ring, during her career.
She already ---1--- the WBO, IBF and WBA world lightweight belts.
Now she ---2--- to write her finest chapter in boxing history by defeating Belgian police officer and WBC champion Delfine Persoon, 34, at New York's Madison Square Garden.
If she succeeds, she ---3--- her fourth world title in just 14 professional fights, and ---4--- the first Irish female boxer to become the undisputed world champion.
The County Wicklow native is already a significant sporting figure due to her instrumental role in getting women's boxing recognised in Ireland and on the Olympic stage.
But as boxing author Barry Flynn explains, a win on Saturday night would put her achievements on another level.
"She is a once-in-a-generation athlete," said Flynn.
"In the modern era, in terms of Irish boxing, it would be unprecedented if ---5---- wins.
"She will stand at the pinnacle. It is a remarkable achievement given the hurdles she has had to overcome."
Flynn says you ---6--- frame Taylor's achievements within "the perspective of women's boxing in Ireland".
"There ---7--- a struggle over the years for it to get a general acceptance in what has traditionally been a male-dominated sport," he adds.
"Women's boxing has now been accepted worldwide, and Katie Taylor has brought that to the fore and ---8--- a torchbearer and pioneer in terms of women's boxing."
0. a. have b. having c. c.
1. a. holds b. holding c. hold 2. a. bids b. is bidding c. bid
3. a. claimed b. claims c. will claim
4. a. must be b. is being c. would be 5. a. he b. it c. she
6. a have to b. have c. are having to 7. a. has been b. is c. are 8. a. being b. been c. be
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III. WRITING (10 points pour les séries ES/S/SG. 18 points pour la série L)
Seuls les candidats de la série L traiteront les deux sujets. Les candidats des séries ES,S et SG traiteront l’un des 2 sujets. Le nombre de mots exigés est de 150 à 200 (ES, S ,SG). Pour la série L, le nombre des mots exigés pour chaque sujet est de 150 à 200.
Topic one: “Don’t be discouraged just because someone told you it’s not what a girl should do, just do what makes you happy.” says Ramla. Do you agree with her or not? Give your opinions.
Topic two: imagine that you are Ramla and you are writing a letter to your uncle from Mogadishu.
Tell him about the challenges (difficulties), joyful moments you experienced and your future aspirations.
