vue - BAC ANGLAIS - 04 Idée de progrès

1. Merci beaucoup pour ses vidéos très claires!
2. C'est Gustavo Fring en plus clair xD
3. SUPPRIMEZ cette épreuve!!!!!!!!!!!!!! C'était beaucoup mieux avant la réforme!
4. Sympa d'utiliser youtube pour nous permettre de reviser :)
5. Cette epreuve m a fait perdre des points au bac
6. C'est Lenny Kravitz en moins sexy
7. il faut supprimer cette épreuve du baccalauréat
8. We are going to deal with the notion « Idea of progress ». To begin with, I’ld like to give a definition of the notion. Progress is a steady evolution towards a better stage. In relation to the notion, the subject of my presentation will be sport performances.  We may wonder to what extent the tendency to push sports limits further can be seen as progress ? 
      Sport has always played a major part in a nation’s fame. Indeed, a successful athlete sets a great example of a country’s power. Sport is tightly linked with the notion of progress since an athlete is bound to always improve his performances. An athlète is bound to always improve his performances. In her Christmas speech in 2010, Queen Elizabeth laid the emphasis on the importance of sport. She stressed the fact that it brings people together  and creates a sense of community. The positive values of sport are often put forward to set the example among teenagers. Is thus considered as a means to teach youngsters how to play by the rules or how to respect others. In a nutshell, they help to improve their general behaviour. 
   Another beneficial evolution lays in the fact that the paralympic sports have achieved greater and greater success among the public. Indeed, the London 2012 Paralympic Games were more publicized than the previous Olympic Games in Beijing. In other words, advertisers were willing to invest more money on these games, aware that that it would be lucrative. The South African double amputee Oscar Pistorius, nicknamed the « Blade Runner » was an example of this success in so far as he was the first athlete to compete both in the Olympic Games and in the Paralympic Games. Even if that double entry turned out to be highly controversial, it proved that scientific progress will help to bridge the gap between ablebodied athletes and disabled athletes. For all these reasons, athletes should feel proud to represent their countries during the Olympic Games for instance. 
   The amount of money that some companies are ready to pay to advertise teams or athletes shows that, today, money is dominating world sport. Let’s take the example of the Super Bowl during which 30 seconds of commercials can cost more than 2 million dollars. This evolution raises the question of the status of the athletes : Have they become mere products ? Is sport only a question of money ?
   What’s more, in order to remain in the lead and to have interesting contracts, some sportsmen and women seem ready to go beyond the ethic limits. Actually, they are expected to make great efforts to succeed and fulfill the public’s expectation. Some might be tempted, or even forced to use drugs to enhance their performance. The point is that besides endangering the athletes’ health, doping corrupts the ideal of fairness and integrity, values which are supposedly embodied by sport. 
   Another consequence of this dangerous evolution is child abuse. There is no denying that various dangers threaten young people aspiring to become athletes. Some undergo endless hours of training, ill-treatment, not to mention the extreme pressure from unscrupulous managers. What matters is how to exploit these kids’ potential to earn as much money as possible. Once more, these young athletes are used as disposable products. Once their performances are less good, their managers get rid of them. Indeed, the enormous sums of money at stake and the commercialisation set a bad example for the young athletes who are bound to set off on the wrong foot.
9. vla le script :
   http://static.education.francetv.fr/media/doc/fiche-idee-progres.pdf
10. Pouvons nous avoir le sript original? pleaseeeeeeeeeee
11. Peut on avoir les sous-titres svp ?
12. SVP pouvons nous avoir cette sequence sous format textuelle