Oral anglais Spaces and exchanges

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Cet oral porte sur l'une des 4 notions du bac d'anglais, à savoir "Spaces and exchanges" et plus particulierement les gap years (années de césure). L'oral est completement rédigé et comporte meme quelques questions que l'examinateur est susceptible de poser à la fin de l'oral.

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[...] Finally, being an "au pair" boy or "au pair" girl is also a way to travel abroad. As a au pair you will be invited into a foreign host family to participate to her daily life and to help her by taking care of the kids for example. Even though doing a gap year can be a terrible experience if you don't integrate or make any friends; it is for many of us a chance to improve our language skills by discovering a new country and new people. [...]

[...] Thus, people can travel through a country by staying overnight in other people's home and discover a new culture. Another solution to go on a gap year is to volunteer in an NGO (non-governmental organization). That way you will have the possibility to go abroad with a humanitarian project like helping to build [HYPERLINK: https://www.gapyear.com/volunteering/community-projects/building-agriculture] a school in Ghana [HYPERLINK: https://www.gapyear.com/destination/africa/ghana]. In a gap year you can also work and be paid. Let me present you 2 of these ways: the first one is called WWOOFING, an acronym for Willing Workers On Organic Farms. [...]

[...] How many people take a gap year ? Approximately 50,000 - 100,000 p/year Why ? Take time away from studying/ Earn money/ Work experience/ See new cultures/ Learn new skills/ To do something exciting/ Time out to ensure best decision is made/ Gain indepedance/ Potential barriers to taking a gap year : lose rhythm to study/ Forget previous knowledge/ Money/ Feel left behind friends/ Worried Parents/ Girlfriend or boyfriend/ Safety or illness worries/ A gapper You have literally tens of thousands of options for volunteering, whether it's working at an elephant [HYPERLINK: https://www.gapyear.com/volunteering/animals/elephants] sanctuary in Thailand [HYPERLINK: https://www.gapyear.com/destination/south-east-asia/thailand], helping to build [HYPERLINK: https://www.gapyear.com/volunteering/community-projects/building-agriculture] a school in Ghana [HYPERLINK: https://www.gapyear.com/destination/africa/ghana] or looking after street children in Argentina [HYPERLINK: https://www.gapyear.com/destination/south-america/argentina]. [...]

[...] She declared that nowadays, having a real experience with cultures and societies very different from our own must become a goal for young people. She said that it is better to travel miles than read books. As a conclusion I can say that gap years are a great way to become open-minded by meeting new people, to learn new skills and new languages, and to take time away from studying. Gap years are proven to put young people ahead in life and to broaden their horizons and that's why this kind of experience must become a goal for teenagers. [...]

[...] The word "space" refers to the places where these exchanges take place. In our modern-day world, we can say that there are different kinds of exchanges: economic exchanges with for example trading across borders, cultural exchanges and the movement of people with immigration. To illustrate the notion, I've decided to talk about gap years. I'm going to use few documents to answer the question if doing a gap year must become a goal for young people. A gap year is a period of time during which a student takes a break from studying, after high school for example just before starting college or university. [...]