anglais LV A et LV B (prépas ECG et ECT) · Chapitre 2 · Exercice de TD
Un résumé de deux documents en format réduit
Le résumé analytique comparatif : lire un dossier, le restituer en anglais · niveau 3 (difficile)
Énoncé
Résumer en anglais, en 150 mots (à 10 % près), les deux documents suivants, écrits pour ce livre. Document A (tribune d'un maire d'une ville touristique) : « Our old town has become a stage set. Residents are priced out by holiday lets, shops sell souvenirs instead of bread, and on summer days the streets are impassable. We will cap the number of visitors to the historic centre and charge a daily entry fee. A city is first of all a place where people live. » Document B (communiqué d'une fédération du tourisme) : « Tourism pays the wages of one in four workers in this region. Entry fees and caps send the message that visitors are not welcome, and they hit hardest the families who can only travel in August. The real problem is not the number of tourists but their concentration: spreading visits across the year and the region would relieve the centre without turning anyone away. »
Corrigé
Proposition (150 mots) : Both documents address the same question: how should a historic city respond to overcrowding by tourists, and should it limit their number? They agree that the situation in the old town is a problem but differ on its cause and its cure. For the mayor who wrote Document A, mass tourism is driving residents out, through holiday lets and the disappearance of everyday shops; he therefore intends to cap visitor numbers and introduce a daily entry fee, arguing that a city belongs first to those who live in it. Document B, issued by a tourism federation, stresses the economic weight of the sector and warns that such measures would deter visitors and penalise families tied to the summer holidays. Rather than the volume of tourists, it blames their concentration in time and space, and advocates spreading visits more evenly. The dividing line is thus between restricting access and redistributing it.
Ce qui fait la note. La question est posée d'emblée et dédoublée (how… and should it…). L'accord est dit avant le désaccord (they agree that… but differ on) : les deux documents reconnaissent le problème. Le chiffre de B (« un travailleur sur quatre ») est résumé par the economic weight of the sector : on peut garder un chiffre du dossier, mais en 150 mots l'idée suffit. La dernière phrase nomme la ligne de partage en deux termes parallèles (restricting access / redistributing it). Aucune opinion : on ne dit pas qui a raison.