Pratique du Shadowing: Chapter 1 - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo
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Chapter 1 Friday Evening Meeting the Client Friday.
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It's the end of the working day.
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My friend Layla is in my office drinking coffee.
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She tells me a story about one of her clients.
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We laugh.
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Your clients are very difficult people, I say.
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Layla is a lawyer, but many of her clients are very poor people too.
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She does good work.
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And what about you? says Layla.
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You're a private investigator, and your clients are often very difficult and dangerous.
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Saeed worries about you.
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He likes you a lot, you know.
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What?
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Saeed is Layla's brother.
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He's a detective in the police.
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Detective Sergeant Saeed Patel.
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He and Layla are my best friends.
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Saeed worries about me a lot.
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I smile.
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Saeed doesn't need to worry about me, I say.
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I can take care of myself.
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I finish my coffee and stand up.
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Friday night, the best night of the week.
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What shall we do this evening?
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Go to the cinema?
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OK, but let's eat first.
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I'm really hungry, Leila says.
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Oh, and don't forget, next Friday you're coming to dinner at our house.
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Saeed's cooking chicken.
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Great, I say.
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Saeed's chicken dinner is famous with all his friends.
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Leila puts on her coat and at the door I turn off the lights.
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I begin to close the door and the phone rings.
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Oh, leave it, says Leila.
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It's Friday night.
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I go back into the office.
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I can't do that, I say.
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Perhaps it's a new client.
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It is.
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It's a man's voice, speaking quickly.
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I listen, say yes and no in the right places, and finish the call.
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Sorry, Leila, no cinema tonight.
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Another time, I say.
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The client wants me to meet him this evening.
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Oh, dear, Layla says.
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Can't he wait till tomorrow?
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He says not.
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He's a worried man, I think.
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We say goodbye and Leila leaves.
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The meeting is in a Greek restaurant not far from Piccadilly Circus.
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I take a bus and then walk.
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The Athena restaurant in Old Compton Street is small and noisy.
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The client is sitting at the back, at a table for two, watching the door.
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He stands up when I get near the table.
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A tall man, nice looking, brown hair, brown eyes, worried eyes, tired eyes.
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He's not sleeping at night.
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Hi, I say, Shirley Holmes.
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Jeff Clayton, he says.
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Thanks for coming.
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We sit down and a waiter brings us bread, olives, feta cheese, water for me and beer for Jeff Clayton.
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Clayton stares at me.
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You look very young for a private detective, he says.
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How can I help you, Mr Clayton?
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I say.
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What's your problem?
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I'm not here to talk about my age.
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OK.
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Sorry, he says.
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I have a business, an electrical design company, Clayton Electrics.
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We design...
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I take out a piece of paper and push it across the table to him.
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It's the front page from his company's website.
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He looks at it, then at me.
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Ah, he says.
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You googled me.
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You know all about my company.
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No, I say, but I know a little about electrical design now.
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So, your problem is a business problem then.
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I eat an olive and a piece of feta cheese.
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I love olives and feta, probably because of my Greek mother.
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Jeff Clayton tells me his problem.
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His business is losing money because he's not getting new clients.
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Every time he does a quotation for a new job, he doesn't get it.
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In six months, not one new contract, he says.
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Not one.
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My quotations are good.
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My designs are good.
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I'm not expensive.
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My prices are good.
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I have good workers.
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Six months ago, I had lots of new business.
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Everything was fine, and now nothing.
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Why?
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Who is getting these contracts then?
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I ask.
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Is it always the same company?
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He smiles a little.
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Yeah, you got it.
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I talked to some people, asked some questions.
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It's always the same company.
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Spark and Flash Design in Roehampton.
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Their design is nearly the same.
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Their prices are nearly the same, but just a little bit lower.
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So, they get the contract.
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How do you do a quotation?
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I ask.
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Tell me.
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I look at the client's building with one or two of my designers.
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My design staff then do the plans.
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It's all done on computer, of course.
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I do the costings for the work and then send the quotation to the client.
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Could you keep the quotations on the office computer?' I say.
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''What kind of security do you have?'' He tells me the name of the security programme on the office computer.
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I know it.
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It's a good one.
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''I keep all the quotations and costings in a special folder on the computer,'' he says.
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Nobody can open the folder without the password, and every file in the folder has a password too.
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How many people know the passwords?
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I ask.
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Only me.
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It sounds all right, but a good hacker can break through that security.
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I think you have a cyber thief on your staff, I say.
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Someone is getting through your security, taking the costing's information and selling it to this other company.
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Do you trust all your staff?
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He looks at me very unhappily.
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I did trust them once, he said.
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I don't now.
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What can I do?
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There's a very big contract coming soon.
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Blanding's house, near Putney Bridge.
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All new electrics in the building.
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A Chinese bank is going to open there.
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I'm doing the costings for the quotation now.
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It must be in by next Friday.
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I don't want to lose this one.
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I can't lose this one.
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He pushes his glass away and looks at me.
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Can you help me?
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Yes, I think I can.
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I eat some more olives and finish the cheese.
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I need to be in your office for a day or two.
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Talk to your staff.
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Is that OK with you?
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Sure, he says.
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Come and go when you like.
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I need to do some thinking tomorrow, I say.
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Can I phone you on Sunday with my plan, Mr Clayton?
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Sure, he says again.
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But please, call me Jeff.
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We're working together on this.
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Can I call you Shirley?
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No, you can't, I say.
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In your office, I'm going to be Sally Hawker, so you call me Sally, right?
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And you call me on this mobile number, not the one on my website.
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I give him my business card and show him the number on the back of the card.
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Shirley Holmes, private investigator.
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He looks at it, then at the front of the card, and laughs.
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Shirley Holmes!
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That's not your real name, is it?
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You changed it because you wanted your name to sound like Sherlock Holmes.
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Maybe, I say, or maybe my mother married a man called Holmes and they called me Shirley.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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À propos de cette leçon
Vous vous entraînez en anglais avec "Chapter 1" en utilisant la technique du Shadowing.
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.