Sujet Anglais LV 2 Ecricome 2010

I – VERSION

Bouncing a great-grandchild on her knee in her house in Bukaweka, a village in eastern Uganda, Mary Wokhwale gestures at her surroundings. « My mobile phone has been .my livelihood, » she says. In 2003 Ms Wokhwale was one of the first 15 women in Uganda to become ‘village phone’ operators. Thanks to a micro-finance loan, she was able to buy a basic handset and a roof-mounted antenna to ensure a reliable signal. She went into business selling phone calls to other villagers, making a small profit on each calI. This enabled her to pay back her loan and buy a second phone. The income from selling phone calls subsequently enabled her to set up a business selling beer, open a music and video shop and help members of her family pay their children’s school fees. Business has dropped off somewhat in the past couple of years as mobile phones have fallen in price and many people in her village can afford their own. But Ms Wokhwale’s life has been transformed.

Ms Wokhwale prospered because being able to make and receive phone calls is so important to people that even the very poor are prepared to pay for it. ln places with bad roads, unreliable postal services, few trains and parlous* landlines, mobile phones can substitute for travel, allow quicker and easier access to information on prices, enable traders to reach wider markets, boost entrepreneurship and generally make it easier to do business.

The Economist, 26 September 2009

Note : parlous = in a very poor state

II – THÈME

1- Ne vous inquiétez pas ! Dès que le marché sera haussier, vous pourrez vendre vos actions et faire des bénéfices.

2 – II n’a pas coutume d’être en retard; il a dû rater le train et partir à pied.

3 – Cela fait trois ans qu’elle travaille à Paris et elle envisage de changer d’emploi.

4 – Je t’ai demandé il y a cinq minutes si cela ne te dérangerait pas d’aller faire les courses.

5 – Pourquoi ne pas leur envoyer un courriel immédiatement ? Ce serait tellement plus pratique, n’est-ce pas ?

6 – Quels que soient leurs résultats, les cadres de mon entreprise s’attendent toujours à ce que je les augmente.

7 – Ce dont elle a peur, c’est de ne pas avoir la promotion qu’elle mérite grandement.

8 – Moins il y aura de véhicules dans nos villes, plus la vie sera agréable pour nos concitoyens.

9 – Je vais acheter ce logiciel-ci. Il est deux fois moins cher que les autres que l’on m’a proposés.

10 – S’il avait voulu contribuer à la sauvegarde de la planète, il aurait acheté une voiture qui consomme peu.

III – ESSAI

Les candidats traiteront l’un des 2 sujets proposés et indiqueront le nombre de mots employés (de 225 à 275).

1 – Is now a better time to be a woman than it used to be?

2 – ln today’s society, people are always looking for novelty. Do you agree?