Langue Vivante (Anglais) Série D

• Session 2025 (1er tour)

Épreuve officielle — BAC C/D 2025 — Ingénierie

TEXT : ENGINEERING

Engineers find solutions to problems that are important to society. They control and prevent pollution, develop new medicines, create advanced technologies and help explore new worlds. Interestingly, the word engineer does not come from engine. In fact it comes from the Latin word "ingeniosus" meaning skilled. An engineer is really a clever, practical problem solver. Although the fields of engineering and science are connected, there are also differences. While a scientist will ask why a problem occurs or happens, an engineer will want to know how to solve the problem. As one writer once said, scientists build in order to learn whereas engineers learn in order to build. There are all sorts of opportunities in a variety of engineering fields such as aerospace, biomedical, civil, mechanical and computer engineering. Engineers work alone or in teams, and in all sorts of locations such as offices, factories, research labs, outdoors and even outer space.

Adapted from Language LEADER, Pearson Education, England 2008, P90 by David Cotton

Answer the following questions :

1. What does the word "engineer" mean?
2. What is really the main concern of engineers?
3. What is the difference between a scientist and an engineer?
4. What qualities do good engineers need to have?
5. Can you give another title to the text?

Translate into French from « Engineers find solutions to problems … » to « … An engineer is really a clever, practical problem solver ».

In a few lines, say the type of engineer you want to become and give 2 or 3 reasons.