Sujet Anglais — Terminale — Métropole — Bac 2010

Dear Mma Ramotswe, I read about you in the newspaper and about how you have opened this big new agency down there in town. I am very proud for Botswana1 that we now have a person like you in this 5 country. I am the teacher at the small school at Katsana1 Village, thirty miles from Gaborone1, which is near the place where I was born. I went to Teachers’ College many years ago and I passed with a double distinction. My wife and I have two daughters and we have a son of eleven. This boy to which I am referring has recently vanished and has not been seen for two 10 months. We went to the police. They made a big search and asked questions everywhere. Nobody knew anything about our son. I took time off from school and searched the land around our village. We have some kopjes2 not too far away and there are boulders and caves over there. I went into each one of those caves and looked into every crevice. But there was no sign of my 15 son. He was a boy who liked to wander, because he had a strong interest in nature. He was always collecting rocks and things like that. He knew a lot about the bush and he would never get into danger from stupidity. There are no leopards in these parts any more and we are too far away from the Kalahari for lions to come. 20 I went everywhere, calling, calling, but my son never answered me. I looked in every well of every farmer and village nearby and asked them to check the water. But there was no sign of him. How can a boy vanish off the face of the Earth like this? If I were not a Christian, I would say that some evil spirit had lifted him up and carried him off. But I know that things like that 25 do not really happen. I am not a wealthy man. I cannot afford the services of a private detective, but I ask you, Mma, to help me in one small way. Please, when you are making your enquiries about other things, and talking to people who might know what goes on, please ask them if they have heard anything about a boy called Thobiso, aged eleven years and four months, who is the