BACCALAURÉAT GÉNÉRAL

SESSION 2010
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ANGLAIS

LANGUE VIVANTE 1
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Série ES - S
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3 heures - COEFFICIENT : 3

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The scene is set in the early 1960s. ‘The kitchen and bathroom will have to be cleaned today.’ ‘Yes, sah.’ Master got up quickly and went into the study. Ugwu’s confused fear made his eyelids quiver. Would Master send him home because he did not speak English well, did not know the strange places Master named? Master came back with a wide piece of paper that he unfolded and laid out on the dining table, pushing aside books and magazines. He pointed with his pen. ‘This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top or bottom, you see.’ Master picked up the paper and folded it, so that one edge touched the other, leaving a hollow between. ‘Our world is round, it never ends. Nee anya, this is all water, the seas and oceans, and here’s Europe and here’s our own continent, Africa, and the Congo is in the middle. Farther up here is Nigeria, and Nsukka1 is here, in the south-east, this is where we are.’ He tapped with his pen. ‘Yes, sah.’ ‘Did you go to school?’ ‘Standard two2, sah. But I learn everything fast.’ ‘Standard two? How long ago?’ ‘Many years now, sah. But I learn everything very fast!’ ‘Why did you stop school?’ ‘My father’s crops3 failed, sah.’ Master nodded slowly. ‘Why didn’t your father find somebody to lend him your school fees4?’ ‘Sah?’ ‘Your father should have borrowed!’ Master snapped, and then, in English, ‘Education is a priority! How can we resist exploitation if we don’t have the tools to understand exploitation?’ ‘Yes,