SUJET - ANGLAIS - Livret

Samedi 9 avril 2022
ÉPREUVE : ANGLAIS
MP / PC / PSI / PT / TSI
Durée : 2 heures 30 minutes

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Concours CPGE EPITA-IPSA-ESME 2022
ANGLAIS
Instructions
This exam is composed of 20 multiple choice questions and 2 writing tasks dealing with one
document pertaining to sports, media, and the corona virus crisis.
Part 1.
Multiple Choice Questions based on the document. Write answers on the ANSWER SHEET
provided. (20 pts)
Part 2.
Writing Task 1: Synthesis Write an OBJECTIVE synthesis of the document, which reflects
information and opinions relating to sports, media, and the coronavirus crisis. This synthesis
must contain 300 words maximum. 10 pts.
With maximum rigor in expression, conclude by writing your thoughts about the ideas and
arguments exposed in the document. Word limit: 200. 10 pts.
Total word limit: 500 words with a margin of 5 %. All words count, including any references
to the articles.
Indiquer le nombre de mots que vous avez utilisés.
Writing Task 2: Short Answers

Answer the following questions in 3 to 5 sentences as completely as possible, referring to
the text where necessary. 10 points for each question.
1.
does he mean?
2. Did LeBron James express his view on vaccination? Explain your answer.
3. Is it right for any athlete to use their celebrity status for a cause?
__________
Origin of document: The New York Times
Should You Care About What Athletes Think? by Jay Caspian Kang, 4 October 2021
Warning. To ensure that your handwriting is as legible as possible, paper is provided for a rough
draft. Use the livret for your final version.
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Should You Care About What Athletes Think?
By Jay Caspian Kang 4 October, 2021
1.
Barclays Center. There was much speculation that Irving actually could not legally enter the
-of-vaccination requirements, which, in turn, could
preclude him from playing any games in cities with similar mandates. Irving, instead, chose to
talk to reporters by video conference. When asked if he planned to play home games this
2. ington
3.
Bill de Blasio said

and podcaster Jemele Hill appeared on MSNBC last week and said that Irving had missed an
part Sioux
e N.B.A. became the latest battleground for the continuing

national argument about how we should respond to those who are still unvaccinated.
4. To be clear, I believe in the vaccines and that vaccine resistance is a public health emergency.
And I believe that by not getting vaccinated, these players are creating unnecessary risk for
those who come into close contact with them. But the objections to their behavior have been
less about the epidemiological risk they pose as potential virus vectors and more about the
message they might be sending to the public and the responsibilities of public life. And that
brings up a question: Do we care too much about what famous people think about the vaccines?
Or, more broadly, do we care too much about what they think about everything?
Am I a role model or not?

5. Nike commercial. For
years, that was the progressive party line when it came to professional athletes who had every
bit of their personal lives picked apart and examined by hostile, often racist media.
6. I was thinking a lot about Barkley last week because it seems that some of the backlash against
taken place in how some prominent athletes
want to be expansive brands that bleed into every facet of consumable life, even politics.
7. At the 2016 ESPY awards, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Carmelo Anthony and Chris Paul four
of the biggest stars in the N.B.A. stood on the stage of the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles
with their hands clasped mournfully at their waists. Philando Castile, a Black school cafeteria
2/5
worker in St. Paul, Minn., had just been shot to death by a police officer in front of his girlfriend
and her 4-year-old daughter. Alton Sterling, a resident of Baton Rouge, La., had been wrestled
down in front of a convenience store and killed by a police officer. The ESPYs, a usually limp
bacchanal in which a stand-up comedian gently ribs superstar athletes, who, in turn, give little
laughs and awkward acceptance speeches, had decided to join in on the national spirit of
protest.
8.
to start the show tonight this way the four of us talking to our fellow athletes with the
9. The four stars went down the line and gave similar speeches on the need to speak out in the
grand tradition of Jesse Owens, Muhammad Ali, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
10. All this was hailed as a great call to arms and a validation of the Americans who had walked out
of their homes to local protests and exercised their First Amendment rights. It also created a stir
brands, sensing some change in the air, at least in the hearts of their affluent, coastal customer
justice-y profit.
11. This came to a head in the N.B.A. bubble in Orlando, Fla., when the league and its sponsors
plunged headfirst into the George Floyd protests with solemn displays of players kneeling, all
manner of Nike-sponsored Black Lives Matter
projected all over the court and crammed into every corner of your television screen.
12.
phrase from creative meetings), but as happens whenever any famous people decide to do
anything vaguely political, there was an undue amount of attention placed on which N.B.A.
players were kneeling and which players were wearing what social justice slogans on their backs.
Protest coverage became celebrity coverage. That fed into an odd, increasingly prevalent form
of politically driven fandom, wherein the opinions of the celebrities you support also reflect on
you.
13. The bubble did generate some stirring, important and courageous displays of dissent, most
notably the decision of the Milwaukee Bucks to effectively go on strike after the police shooting
of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis. But once the games started up again after a brief stoppage, the
messaging around police violence and racism felt workshopped, sanded down and ultimately
gestural. The point seemed more to be that these very famous people and this very public
league were using their platforms, but once you got beyond the sloganeering and the civil rights
lives, the league was forcing its players to live in a bubble. The actual message of last summer
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Writing Task 2: Short Answers

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Bill de Blasio said

e N.B.A. became the latest battleground for the continuing

Am I a role model or not?

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