Oral bac anglais LV1 - Spaces and exchanges

SPACES AND EXCHANGES

I’m going to talk about the notion Spaces and Exchanges. This notion deals with the geographical and symbolic areas that all societies occupy and the interactions between men and different societies. The different cultural, economic, sociological and language interactions have shaped and characterized our modern day world. The different spaces of the world are nowadays more and more connected to each other. So crossing the borders has become easier and faster and new modes of exchange are emerging. In order to illustrate this notion, I have chosen to talk about gap year, a theme of cultural interaction that more and more students experiment. That’s why we can ask ourselves in what a "gap year" is an exchange of services and cultures ?

First, A gap year is a break taken by students to engage in humanitarian or environmental projects.

The people who take a gap year have different projects of gap year like community development, teaching, conservation, building or doing sport. They mention their volunteer work as, for example, to build schools and houses, to rescue animals, to help in an orphanage, to teach in poor schools or to coach children to play sports. So, they give a lot of services to people because they spend their time for developing countries, helping poor people or orphans or caring of animals.

Secondly, a gap year bring a lot of benefits for the gapers.

- It’s a good experience for CV. During their gap year, the gapers developed their knowledge, learnt new activities or new sports, got practical experience... So, doing a gap year improve your skill and enrich your experience

- It’s a good experience for culture yourself and discovering the world. During a gap year, you could travel overseas so you could discover new geographical site and learn new languages.

- Finally, doing a gap year allows you to gain independence. You could become more mature and get confidence. So, this experience can change your project of life.

To conclude, a gap year is an enriching and interesting experience that can change your life. On the one hand, the gapers bring their services, their volunteer work and their knowledge, and on the other hand, they receive a lot of their experience which enriching their skill, their culture and can change your mind.

So a gap year is an exchange of services and cultures, and this theme is an interesting illustration of the notion “Space and exchanges”.

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