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Baccalauréat · Série D · Anglais — 2023
BAC D — Anglais — Sujet type n° 2
Consignes
- L'épreuve comporte trois parties : compréhension, maîtrise de la langue et expression écrite.
- Toutes les réponses doivent être rédigées EN ANGLAIS.
- Les justifications doivent citer le texte entre guillemets.
- Aucun dictionnaire n'est autorisé.
Part I — Reading comprehension
Text: The field that came back
Ousmane inherited four hectares of land that nobody wanted. The soil was hard, pale and bare; when the rain came, it ran off the surface like water on a table. His father had abandoned the plot fifteen years earlier.
In the dry season, Ousmane began digging. He made small holes, about twenty centimetres wide, spaced regularly across the field, and dropped a handful of manure into each one. His neighbours laughed. Some told him he was wasting the only season in which he could rest.
The technique was not his invention. It is called zaï, and farmers in the north have used it for generations. What the holes do is simple: they catch the rain instead of letting it escape, and the manure attracts termites, whose tunnels open the hard soil from below.
The first harvest was poor. The second was better. By the fourth year, Ousmane was producing more per hectare than the neighbours who had laughed at him — and three of them had started digging holes of their own.
He does not present himself as an innovator. « I did not invent anything », he says. « I only listened to the old men before it was too late. »
Text written for this examination.
Part II — Language
Part III — Writing
Topic
« I did not invent anything. I only listened to the old men before it was too late. »
Can traditional knowledge still be useful in a modern world? Write an essay of 20 to 25 lines giving your opinion, with arguments and examples.