BACCALAURÉAT GÉNÉRAL SESSION 2011 _______ ANGLAIS Séries L et S LANGUE VIVANTE 2 _______ Série L Série S Durée 3 heures – Coefficient 4 Durée 2 heures – Coefficient 2 L'usage de la calculatrice et du dictionnaire n’est pas autorisé. Dès que ce sujet vous est remis, assurez-vous qu'il est complet. Ce sujet comporte 4 pages numérotées de 1/4 à 4/4. Compréhension et Traduction 10 points Expression 10 points 11AN2LME1 Page : 1/4 Like so many of her peers, she had gone travelling for a year after completing her course in physical education at the University of Western Australia. She had gone to Thailand, where she had spent four months working her way up from Krabi to Chiang Mai, staying in hostels and cheap guest houses. But the life of a lotus-eater, to which the existence 5 of staying in Thai resorts proved to be so similar, became boring and eventually palled. Travel was all very well, but it needed a sense of purpose — something which a journey without a terminus always lacked. After Thailand there were Vietnam and Cambodia, but she was im- patient and beginning to run out of money. It was time to go to London. The flat in Corduroy Mansions was the first one she looked at, seeing Jenny’s 10 advertisement by chance a few minutes after it had gone live on Gumtree. She had arrived two hours later, been interviewed by Jenny and agreed to move in the next day.