Un résumé comparatif articulé

La phrase complexe : subordonnées, relatives, passif, discours rapporté · niveau 3 (difficile)

Énoncé

Résumer en anglais, en 120 mots environ, ces deux textes écrits pour ce livre, en employant au moins quatre structures de ce chapitre (subordonnée de concession, relative, verbe introducteur précis, connecteur de comparaison). Document A : « Universities have become engines of inequality. Fees rise every year, students graduate with debts they will carry for decades, and the best degrees go to those whose parents could pay for private tutors. A degree that was meant to open doors now mostly confirms who was already inside. » Document B : « It is fashionable to blame universities for inequality, but the alternative is worse. Graduates still earn far more over their lifetimes than non-graduates, and scholarships, for all their limits, have brought thousands of first-generation students onto campuses. The problem lies not in higher education itself but in schools that fail children long before the age of eighteen. »

Corrigé

Proposition (environ 120 mots) : Both documents examine the role universities play in social mobility, but they reach opposite conclusions. Document A argues that higher education has come to entrench inequality: rising fees saddle students with long-term debt, while the most prestigious degrees go to those whose families could afford private tuition. Far from opening doors, a degree now merely confirms privilege. Document B, by contrast, dismisses this criticism as fashionable. Although it concedes that scholarships have their limits, it points out that graduates still earn considerably more than non-graduates and that many first-generation students have reached university. What B blames is not higher education but schools, which fail children well before they apply. The two texts thus diverge on where inequality originates.

Ce qui fait la note. La question commune est posée d'emblée ; chaque thèse est reformulée (entrench inequality, merely confirms privilege) et non recopiée. Les structures demandées sont présentes et utiles : verbes introducteurs précis (argues, dismisses, concedes, points out, blames), relatives (those whose families, schools, which fail), concession (although it concedes), connecteurs de comparaison (both, by contrast, thus), pseudo-clivée (what B blames is). La dernière phrase nomme le désaccord précis : l'origine des inégalités, non la valeur de l'université. Aucune opinion personnelle.

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