Pratique du Shadowing: CAE TEST6 PART2 - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

Création de la leçon...
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Part 2.
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You'll hear a reporter called Ruth Sampson describing a visit she
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made to the Arctic Circle with a team of Canadian wildlife experts.
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For questions 7 to 14, complete the sentences.
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You now have 45 seconds to look at Part 2.
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Thank you.
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Last year, I found myself flying to the Arctic Circle with five biologists from the Canadian Wildlife Service.
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As our small plane descended towards a snow -covered runway, I looked out of the window at the frozen ocean below.
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I could see small holes in the ice and, around them, lots of extraordinary little figures rather like ants.
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I was told they were seals basking on the ice in the sun.
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Ten minutes after we'd landed, I had my first sighting of a wolf, which my eagle -eyed colleagues pointed out to me, at least 700 metres away.
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And later on, I was lucky enough to see a caribou with its huge antlers at much closer range.
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At first sight, the Arctic seems to be a kind of desert, but there are plants and animals around.
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You just have to look around for them.
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You may find what's called an oasis.
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This is a little confined area with access to water, where vegetation can establish itself and provide nutrients for animals.
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Arctic plants have evolved to cope with this harsh environment, like the yellow arctic poppy, which only has a tiny tuft of leaves visible, as the bulk of the plant,
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a network of roots, stays underground.
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Its leaves remain green all winter, so it can make the most of the short growing season.
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The diversity of bird species decreases as you travel north, but there are birds which spend the winter here, and others that come back in the spring.
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Most of these birds get their nourishment from seeds, although a predator like the snowy owl feeds on small mammals called lemmings, and others do manage to find fish.
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For accommodation, we had tents which looked just like the igloos the local Inuit people build out of ice, with little tunnels at the front.
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Only ours were orange and made of nylon, and our only connection to the outside world was our radio link.
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You notice how light the snow cover is.
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It scatters with the wind, and there are hardly any deep drifts.
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Apart from the cold, the main hazard is the wildlife, and I received a brief introduction on the correct action to take if a polar bear came to visit.
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There are other large animals, like the muskox, but they seldom pose a threat.
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Another thing was that recording the team's descriptions of wildlife, which was my task was incredibly difficult the recorder itself was fine
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but batteries just don't work in the cold
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so I had to hold them inside my thick coat to keep them warm
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but on the whole
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I now
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you'll hear the recording again.
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Last year, I found myself flying to the Arctic Circle with five biologists from the Canadian Wildlife Service.
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As our small plane descended towards a snow -cupboard runway, I looked out of the window at the frozen ocean below.
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I could see small holes in the ice, and, around them, lots of extraordinary little figures rather like ants.
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I was told they were seals basking on the ice in the sun.
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Ten minutes after we'd landed, I had my first sighting of a wolf, which my eagle -eyed colleagues pointed out to me, at least 700 metres away,
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and later on I was lucky enough to see a caribou with its huge antlers at much closer range.
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At first sight, the Arctic seems to be a kind of desert, but there are plants and animals around, you just have to look around for them.
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You may find what's called an oasis, this is a little confined area with access to water,
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where vegetation can establish itself and provide nutrients for animals.
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Arctic plants have evolved to cope with this harsh environment, like the yellow arctic poppy, which only has a tiny tuft of leaves visible, as the bulk of the plant,
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a network of roots, stays underground.
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Its leaves remain green all winter, so it can make the most of the short growing season.
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The diversity of bird species decreases as you travel north, but there are birds which spend the winter here, and others that come back in the spring.
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Most of these birds get their nourishment from seeds, although a predator like the snowy owl feeds on small mammals called lemmings, and others do manage to find fish.
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For accommodation, we had tents which looked just like the igloos the local Inuit people build out of ice, with little tunnels at the front.
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Only ours were orange and made of nylon, and our only connection to the outside world was our radio link.
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You notice how light the snow cover is.
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It scatters with the wind, and there are hardly any deep drifts.
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Apart from the cold, the main hazard is the wildlife, and I received a brief introduction on the correct action to take if a polar bear came to visit.
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There are other large animals, like the muskox, but they seldom pose a threat.
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Another thing was that recording the team's descriptions of wildlife, which was my task, was incredibly difficult.
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The recorder itself was fine, but batteries just don't work in the cold, so I had to hold them inside my thick coat to keep them warm.
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But on the whole, I found it a fairly amazing...
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That's the end of part two.
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Now turn to part three.

Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon

Cette leçon d’expression orale s’appuie sur la vidéo « CAE TEST6 PART2 ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : arctic, wildlife, bird, animals, plant. Cette vidéo contient 58 phrases et 934 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 6:24. Le locuteur parle à un rythme régulier d’environ 146 mots par minute, confortable pour le shadowing. Seuls 79 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais, le vocabulaire est donc exigeant.

Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo

15 mots de la vidéo à retenir, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :

MotPrononciationSens
wildlife nom/ˈwaɪldlaɪf/faune, nature
leaf nom/lif/feuille
establish verbe/ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/affermir, instaurer
thick adjectif/θɪk/épais, gros
desert nom/ˈdɛz.ɚt/désert
visible adjectif/ˈvɪzɪb(ə)l/visible
incredibly adverbe/ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/incroyablement
seed nom/siːd/semence, graine
coat nom/ˈkoʊ̯t/manteau, paletot
extraordinary adjectif/ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/extraordinaire
wolf nom/wʊlf/tombeur
diversity nom/daɪˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪti/diversité
underground adjectif/ˌʌn.dəɹˈɡɹaʊnd/souterrain
seal nom/siːl/sceau, cachet
tunnel nom/ˈtʌn(ə)l/tunnel

La grammaire de cette vidéo

Les structures que le locuteur utilise le plus, avec les mots exacts de la vidéo :

StructureDans la vidéo
Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenanthave evolved
Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le faitwas told
Propositions relatives who / which + proposition — une précision sur une personne ou une chosewildlife, which was

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 6 contractions et formes réduites, comme don't, we'd, you'll. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

  • Les sons « sh » et « zh »: establish /ɪˈstæb.lɪʃ/, harsh /ˈhɑɹʃ/, accommodation /əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/, vegetation /ˌvɛd͡ʒəˈteɪʃən/, nourishment /ˈnɝɪʃmənt/
  • Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/, diversity /daɪˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪti/, accommodation /əˌkɒm.əˈdeɪ.ʃən/, vegetation /ˌvɛd͡ʒəˈteɪʃən/

Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :

  • /h/ — il se souffle, il n’est pas muet: harsh /ˈhɑɹʃ/, hazard /ˈhæzəd/
  • /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: vegetation /ˌvɛd͡ʒəˈteɪʃən/, biologist /baɪˈɒləd͡ʒɪst/
  • /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: incredibly /ɪŋˈkɹɛdɪbli/, extraordinary /ɪksˈtɹɔːrdɪn(ə)ɹi/, diversity /daɪˈvɜː(ɹ)sɪti/, underground /ˌʌn.dəɹˈɡɹaʊnd/, decrease /dɪˈkɹiːs/

Comment s’entraîner avec cette vidéo

  1. Écoutez la vidéo en entier une fois sans parler et notez les mots que vous ne connaissez pas.
  2. Répétez phrase par phrase à vitesse normale, en reprenant chacune jusqu’à ce que votre rythme corresponde à celui du locuteur.
  3. Enregistrez-vous et comparez avec l’original, en faisant attention à des mots comme wildlife, leaf, establish.

Qu'est-ce que la technique du Shadowing ?

Le Shadowing est une technique d'apprentissage des langues fondée sur la science, développée à l'origine pour la formation des interprètes professionnels. Le principe est simple mais puissant : vous écoutez de l'anglais natif et le répétez immédiatement à voix haute — comme une ombre suivant le locuteur avec un décalage de 1 à 2 secondes. Les recherches montrent une amélioration significative de la précision de la prononciation, de l'intonation, du rythme, des liaisons, de la compréhension orale et de la fluidité.

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