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Whoa!
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What is that?
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This is an unusual situation.
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Do you know what kind of animal this is?
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If you're taking the Cellpip exam,
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you're going to see a question where you have to describe an unusual situation, okay?
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And you have one minute to answer the question.
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Okay, this is on the speaking part of the exam.
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In this lesson I'm going to teach you how you should answer this question.
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I'm making a lot of lessons on Cellpip so
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if you want more make sure you click that subscribe button right down there.
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Okay so here's the question.
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You are walking through a park when suddenly you see a strange animal.
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You call the zoo to see if they have lost an animal.
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Give a detailed description of the animal.
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Okay, so there's our question.
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So here's the animal.
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What are we going to say?
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How are we going to describe this animal?
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Well, we can use a lot.
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We can talk about a lot of things, right?
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We can talk about all of this.
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Its size, color, shape, its age is the animal old?
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Is it a baby animal?
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Does it have special features?
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Is the animal moving?
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Is the animal aggressive?
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Okay, we can talk about all these different things to give a good detailed description of the animal.
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Okay, now if the situation is something else like a food
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or a product or something like
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that then you could you could use uh things like this you could talk about its smell
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color texture substance is it uh bread is it meat is it cheese is it healthy is it unhealthy
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is it fresh or is it stale is it cooked or uncooked okay there's so many different ways
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we can describe an object or a food or an animal okay
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so you just need to use your imagination and
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and think about some of these things okay so here's the animal
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so what are we going to say well we're not going
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to talk about the picture okay we're not going to say in the background I can see some trees.
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Okay, we're not going to do that in this question because that's a different question on the CELPIP exam.
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Okay, that's where we have to describe a picture on the left side, on the right side, in the background, foreground.
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Okay, I've made a few lessons on how to answer that question, so you can go watch those.
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But in this question, we're just using descriptive words.
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We're describing this animal with as much detail as we can.
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Okay, so first, we're going to give a brief introduction to the situation.
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Okay, so you could say, hi, I'm in Prince's Park right now,
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and I see a very strange animal that might have escaped from the zoo.
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Okay, that's just a very good short introduction to the situation.
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Let's say the question asks you about a piece of furniture in a furniture store
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and you have to call your wife or your husband and give a detailed description of that.
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Okay, then you could just say, Hi, Mary.
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I'm at the furniture store right now, and there's a very, really interesting,
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strange-looking table here, but I think you might like it.
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Then, after the introduction, you start describing the object with as much detail as you can, okay?
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So, first, introduction.
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Then, the introduction only takes like 5 or 10 seconds.
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Then, you're going to give a detailed description, which is going to take, I don't know, maybe like 40 seconds?
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Because this question is only a minute, right?
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And you only have 30 seconds to prepare your answer.
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So when you're thinking about it, just take a few notes.
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Size, color, texture, smell.
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Okay, so that way when you're speaking you can look down at your paper and say, oh yeah, what does it smell like?
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How big is it?
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Is it dangerous?
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Or all of those questions.
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You can just look down at your notes.
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Okay, so after the detailed description then we're going to give just
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a short conclusion okay you can just say at the end
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of your call to the zoo you can say have you lost an animal like this okay
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that would be a good conclusion so maybe like five seconds introduction five
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or ten seconds conclusion and then in the middle you're going to be talking for like 40
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or 45 seconds just all about the detail remember you need to give as much detail as you can okay
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so let's take a look at this
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and let's give it a try okay I'm going to have to answer this question
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or to show you how I would answer this question So if you want to try first,
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then click on the pause button right down there.
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And then after you try, then you can listen to my answer to this question.
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Okay, here's my stopwatch.
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I'm going to start right now.
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Hi, I'm in Prince's Park right now, and I see a very strange looking animal.
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I think it may have escaped from the zoo.
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It's a really big animal.
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It's about the size of a lion.
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It has four legs and a long tail.
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And it has a very strange head.
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Its head is a snake.
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And it has a long forked tongue sticking out of its mouth.
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And also it has a pretty long striped neck.
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Now the front legs and the main part of its body are spotted like a leopard.
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but the back legs and back of its body are just plain brown fur.
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Now its feet are very strange.
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It has the feet of a goat with split hooves.
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The animal doesn't look like it's very aggressive, but it looks like it could be dangerous.
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So I'm just wondering if you've lost an animal like this.
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Okay, perfect.
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That was a minute.
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That was a minute long.
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Okay, so that's an example of what I would say, you know, I described its head,
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its tongue, its body, Spotted over here.
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It's back legs.
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Okay, it's feet Split hooves like a goat long tail.
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Okay, so I think I got most of the detail In one minute.
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How did you answer it?
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Would you say anything different than I said?
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Anyway, so so those are my tips for answering this question
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Just start with a brief introduction and then give lots of detail, then just a brief conclusion.
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Now you can practice this at home.
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Just practice describing any objects around your house.
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What do they look like?
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What color?
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What is their shape?
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What is their size?
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What is there?
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Just any kind of descriptive words you can use.
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I think if you practice doing that a lot at home, you're going to ace this question on the exam.
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Okay, so let's do some homework.
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I want you to do the same situation.
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Okay, an animal has escaped from the zoo,
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and you need to describe it to the person you're talking with at the zoo on the phone.
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Okay, so you need to use as much detailed descriptive language as you can to describe this animal.
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Now this kind of tail, this is called a forked tail.
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Just like the snake had a forked tongue, this is a forked tail.
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So anyway, let me know your answer down there in the comments
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and I'll see you over in the next episode of Mad English TV.
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Take care.
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Thank you.

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Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau B1 s’appuie sur la vidéo « CELPIP Exam Sample Questions ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : animal, answer, introduction, zoo, detailed. Cette vidéo contient 125 phrases et 1256 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 9:39. Le locuteur parle à un rythme régulier d’environ 130 mots par minute, confortable pour le shadowing. 88 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais, le vocabulaire est donc facile à suivre. 24 de ses 125 phrases sont des questions : un bon entraînement pour l’intonation interrogative et les réponses courtes.

Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo

Les 15 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :

MotPrononciationSens
fork nom/fɔɹk/fourchette
examination nom/ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/examen
furniture nom/ˈfɝ.nɪ.t͡ʃɚ/mobilier, meubles
texture nom/ˈtɛkst͡ʃə(ɹ)/texture
goat nom/ɡoʊt/chèvre, bouc
snake nom/sneɪk/serpent
aggressive adjectif/əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/agressif
foreground nom/ˈfɔː(ɹ)ˌɡɹaʊnd/premier plan, avant-plan
stopwatch verbechronomètre, garde-temps
uncooked adjectifincuit
stripe nom/stɹaɪp/rayure
leopard nom/ˈlɛp.ɚd/léopard
unhealthy adjectif/ʌnˈhɛl.θi/malsain, mauvais pour la santé
whoa/woʊ/ho, holà
pause nom/pɔːz/pause

Des phrases à répéter

Des phrases courtes et complètes de la vidéo, à réutiliser dans la conversation de tous les jours :

  • Do you know what kind of animal this is?
  • What are we going to say?
  • How are we going to describe this animal?
  • How did you answer it?
  • Would you say anything different than I said?

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 lost · I've made · you've lost
Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le faitare spotted · is called
Possibilité avec « might / may » might/may + verbe — quelque chose de possible mais pas certainmight have · might like · may have
Verbe + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — les verbes suivis de la forme en -ingstart describing · practice describing · practice doing

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 28 contractions et formes réduites, comme I'm, you're, we're. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

  • Les sons « sh » et « zh »: examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/
  • Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: examination /ɪɡˌzæm.ɪˈneɪ.ʃən/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/

Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :

  • /h/ — il se souffle, il n’est pas muet: unhealthy /ʌnˈhɛl.θi/, homework /ˈhoʊmˌwɝk/
  • /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: furniture /ˈfɝ.nɪ.t͡ʃɚ/, texture /ˈtɛkst͡ʃə(ɹ)/, imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/
  • /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: fork /fɔɹk/, descriptive /dəˈskɹɪptɪv/, texture /ˈtɛkst͡ʃə(ɹ)/, aggressive /əˈɡɹɛs.ɪv/, foreground /ˈfɔː(ɹ)ˌɡɹaʊnd/

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 fork, examination, furniture.

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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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