Pratique du Shadowing: Dear Future Generations: Sorry (2026) - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

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Dear Future Generations, I think I speak for the rest of us when I say, sorry.
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Sorry we left you with our mess of a planet.
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Sorry that we were too caught up in our own doings to do something.
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Sorry we listen to people who made excuses to do nothing.
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I hope you forgive us, we just didn't realize how special the earth was, like a marriage gone wrong, we didn't know what we had until it was gone.
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For example, I'm guessing you probably know it as the Amazon desert, right?
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Well believe it or not, it was once called the Amazon Rainforest and there were billions of trees there, all of them gorgeous and...
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Oh.
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You don't know much about trees, do you?
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Well, let me tell you, trees are amazing.
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I mean, we literally breathe the air they are creating.
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They clean up our pollution, our carbon.
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They store and purify water, give us medicine that cures our diseases, food that feeds us.
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Which is why I am so sorry to tell you that we burn them down.
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I cut them down with brutal machines, horrific, at a rate of 40 football fields every minute.
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That's 50% of all the trees in the world gone in the last hundred years.
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Why? For this.
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And that wouldn't make me so sad if it weren't so many pictures of leaves on it.
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You know, when I was a child, I read how the Native Americans had such consideration for the planet
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that they felt responsible for how they left the land for the next seven generations.
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Which brings me great sorrow Because most of us today Don't even care about tomorrow
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So I'm sorry I'm sorry
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that we put profit above people Greed above need The rule
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of gold above the golden rule I'm sorry we use nature
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as a credit card With no spending limit Over drafting animals to extinction Stealing your chance to ever see their uniqueness
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Or become friends with them
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Sorry we poisoned the oceans so much that you can't even swim in them But most of all,
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I'm sorry about our mindset Cause we had the nerve to call this destruction Progress Hey Fox News,
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if you don't think climate change is a threat I dare you to interview the thousands of homeless people in Bangladesh See,
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while you were in your penthouse nestled Their homes were literally washed away beneath their feet due to rising sea levels.
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And Sarah Palin, you said that you love the smell of fossil fuels.
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Well, I urge you to talk to the kids of Beijing
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Who are forced to wear pollution masks just to go to school See you can ignore this,
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but the thing about truth is It can be denied, not avoided
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So I'm sorry future generations I'm sorry that our footprint became a sinkhole
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and not a garden I'm sorry that we paid
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so much attention to ISIS and very little to how fast the ice is melting in the Arctic.
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I'm sorry we doomed you, and I'm sorry we couldn't find another planet in time to move to.
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I am s— You know what?
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Cut the beat.
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I'm not sorry.
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This future, I do not accept it.
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Because an error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
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We can redirect this.
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How?
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Let me suggest that if a farmer sees a tree that is unhealthy, they don't look at the branches to diagnose it, they look at the root.
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So like that farmer, we must look at the root, and not to the branches of government, not to the politicians run by corporations.
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We are the root, we are the foundation, this generation, it is up to us to take care of this planet, it is our only home.
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We must globally warm our hearts and change the climate of our souls and realize that we are not apart from nature, we are a part of nature.
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And to betray nature is to betray us To save nature is to save us
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Because whatever you're fighting for Racism or poverty Feminism, gay rights or any type of equality It won't matter in the least
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Because if we don't all work together to save the environment, we will be equally extinct.
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Sorry.
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Hey guys, for the past several weeks I've been here in Africa, heart of Africa witnessing the horrific destruction of the rainforest which inspired me to write this piece.
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Why are forests being destroyed at such an enormous rate? For this.
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Today we live in a world where destroying trees makes you money.
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So what can we normal people do about it?
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One way to directly fight the destruction is to stand for trees.
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By standing for trees not only can you save the lives of trees, help forest communities, and protect the rights of animals to live in their homes,
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but you will also balance the amount of pollution that you yourself give off with your everyday activities, making you a part of the solution and not the problem.
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This is the option that I chose, but whatever way that you choose to stand for trees, do it.
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Because a wise man once said, when the rivers are all dried up and the trees cut down,
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man will then realize that he will not be able to eat money.

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Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon

Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau B2 s’appuie sur la vidéo « Dear Future Generations: Sorry ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : tree, nature, planet, generation, save. Cette vidéo contient 63 phrases et 901 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 5:42. Le locuteur parle à un rythme naturel d’environ 158 mots par minute, proche d’une conversation courante. 85 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais ; le reste mérite d’être vu avant de commencer.

Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo

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

MotPrononciationSens
pollution nom/pəˈluʃən/pollution
betray verbe/bɪˈtɹeɪ/trahir, livrer
rainforest nom/ˈɹeɪn.fɔɹ.ɪst/pluvisylve, pluvisilve
horrific adjectif/həˈɹɪfɪk/horrifique
farmer nom/ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/agriculteur, fermier
diagnose verbe/ˈdaɪ.əɡˌnoʊs/diagnostiquer
nestle verbe/ˈnɛsəl/se pelotonner, se nicher
penthouse nom/ˈpɛnt(h)aʊs/appentis
purify verbe/ˈpjʊɹɪfaɪ/purifier
redirect verberéorienter
sinkhole nom/ˈsɪŋkˌhoʊl/doline, gouffre
uniqueness nomunicité
footprint nom/ˈfʊtpɹɪnt/empreinte de pied
extinct adjectif/ɪkˈstɪŋkt/éteint
unhealthy adjectif/ʌnˈhɛl.θi/malsain, mauvais pour la santé

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

MotSens
clean up verbenettoyer
cut down verbeabattre

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 25 contractions et formes réduites, comme I'm, don't, didn't. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

  • Les sons « sh » et « zh »: pollution /pəˈluʃən/, extinction /ɪkˈstɪŋkʃən/, politician /ˌpɑ.ləˈtɪʃ.ən/

Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :

  • /h/ — il se souffle, il n’est pas muet: horrific /həˈɹɪfɪk/, penthouse /ˈpɛnt(h)aʊs/, sinkhole /ˈsɪŋkˌhoʊl/, unhealthy /ʌnˈhɛl.θi/
  • /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: betray /bɪˈtɹeɪ/, rainforest /ˈɹeɪn.fɔɹ.ɪst/, horrific /həˈɹɪfɪk/, farmer /ˈfɑɹ.mɚ/, purify /ˈpjʊɹɪfaɪ/

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. Commencez à la vitesse 0,75×, répétez phrase par phrase, puis revenez à la vitesse normale quand cela devient facile.
  3. Enregistrez-vous et comparez avec l’original, en faisant attention à des mots comme pollution, betray, rainforest.

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