Pratique du Shadowing: Downtown Vocabulary In New York - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

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Hey guys, it's Arianita La Gringa and welcome back to my YouTube channel.
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If you guys don't know anything about me, I am a native English teacher from the United States teaching you guys English at different places.
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Can you guys guess where I'm at today just by looking at the beautiful buildings around me?
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I am in downtown New York City, but specifically Manhattan.
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And in today's video, I am going to teach all of you downtown vocabulary.
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And New York City is the best city, the city that never sleeps to teach you guys downtown vocab.
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But before starting this video and teaching you guys some downtown vocab, what does the word downtown mean?
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Downtown is a part of a city or a town where there are a lot of tall buildings, stores, and offices.
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Or it's just the center of the city.
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Now let's learn some English vocab in New York.
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One of the main characteristics of a downtown area are the tall buildings, like the ones behind me.
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But what is a very tall building called, like the one right next to me?
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This very tall building located in the center of downtown New York is called One World Trade Center.
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This building is called a skyscraper.
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Skyscraper.
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And why is it called skyscraper?
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Well, it's called skyscraper because the building is scraping the sky.
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And this skyscraper has many levels or floors.
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This skyscraper is so tall that I couldn't even fit it in this video.
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This skyscraper is the tallest building in the entire United States of America at 1776 feet.
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Now what do you think is inside of a huge skyscraper?
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Are there apartments, hotels, offices, businesses?
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Actually there's everything.
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Some Some skyscrapers have hotels, apartments, offices, businesses, and more things.
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Overall, a skyscraper can be used in a variety of ways
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and produce a lot of money with the businesses they have inside.
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Go ahead and tell me what is the tallest building or skyscraper in your city where you are from.
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When you exit a building like this one, the first thing you see is this right here.
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This is called a sidewalk and you walk on the sidewalk.
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Also, this sidewalk is huge because we are in New York City
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and there are over 8.8 million people living in New York.
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Can you believe it?
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Its population is huge.
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This right here that I'm tapping my toe on is called the curb.
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This is the curb and it separates the sidewalk from the street.
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Another important part of a city are the streets.
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This is a street and as I said before New York City has a large population and a bunch of tourists.
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As you guys can see behind me, there are so many people walking around and tourists.
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These streets are where cars will drive on to get to places like going to work, traveling, or running errands.
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You may think that New York City is full of skyscrapers and tall buildings because its nickname is the concrete jungle.
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Well, that's all true, but they also have a plaza right behind me full of trees, grass, and green areas.
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A plaza is a public square where people can walk around
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and enjoy the city
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and they can get a breath of fresh air from working all day they can walk their dogs
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and hang out with their family this plaza is called the 9 11 memorial
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and as you can see behind me it was constructed in memory of the victims from 9 11
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and the events of that
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but this memorial has a fountain inside of it normally plazas can have fountains
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or they can have public figures like statues in the middle of the plaza.
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This is a squirrel.
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The squirrel is climbing a tree in the plaza.
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These are two pigeons.
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The pigeons are walking on the sidewalk.
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Some downtowns like the one in New York have a lane just for bicyclists.
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So this is called a bicycle lane.
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Right next to me is the sidewalk
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and on the other side this is the street
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so the bicyclists can easily ride their bikes in this lane without trying to ride their bike on the street
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or in between people walking on the sidewalk let me know down below
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Now let's get back to learning more downtown vocab.
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Moving on from talking about skyscrapers, plazas.
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This huge building right behind me is a shopping mall or it's called a mall.
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Usually a downtown area will have a mall but some may not.
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Also this is one of my favorite shopping malls in New York City
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because it's huge and below it is a subway station.
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Let's go find out and see what the shopping mall has to offer for the customers.
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Now you can see why it's one of my favorite malls in the city
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because this mall is huge and it's a very touristic part of the city.
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There are stores inside on the first level.
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Also below the shopping mall is the subway station.
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Now let's move to another part of downtown New York
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but one of the fastest ways to get there is using the subway which there's one behind me.
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We're going to use this crosswalk.
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I'm a So I'm going to walk across the crosswalk and enter the subway.
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Let's take the subway.
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I am walking down the stairs and when you enter the subway, you first need a MetroCard.
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This is the card that will let you enter the subway.
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You can buy a card right here at this MetroCard vending machine and this costs around $3.
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You can enter the subway by paying with Apple Pay, but I already have a MetroCard.
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So I'm just gonna swipe through.
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Right now, I'm on the subway platform
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And I'm waiting for my train to arrive because I am going to take you guys to a special place.
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Now I'm going to enter the train.
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I'm exiting the train.
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I just made it to my stop.
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Now let's go upstairs and go to the street.
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I am finally on the street and the subway is definitely one of the fastest ways to move around New York City.
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Let me know if you guys have a subway in your city and let me know where you're from.
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Can you guys guess where the subway took me?
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Right now, I'm in the middle of Times Square.
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There are so many billboards and huge screens that are displaying ads of different companies and businesses.
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Almost every downtown has a coffee shop.
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Behind me is a Starbucks coffee shop.
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If you're a coffee lover, a coffee shop is something you cannot miss if you're downtown or in the city.
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Also, if you want to learn how to order coffee at a coffee shop, I just recorded a brand new video ordering coffee
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and teaching you guys English on how to order coffee at the coffee shop.
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I just got to the final part of this video.
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Right now, I am in Central Park.
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This park is in the middle of downtown New York City.
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Behind me, you can see the skyline of the beautiful skyscrapers.
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Also, I just got my hot dog and this hot dog costs $4.50 cents.
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Normally where I'm from, Cincinnati, Ohio, these hot dogs would normally cost on the street around $2.50.
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This is the hot dog bun.
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I have the hot dog and ketchup and mustard.
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If you guys made it to the end of this video, thank you for following along.
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I'm really hungry so I'm gonna finish eating my hot dog.
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Don't forget to like, subscribe, and give me a super thanks if you enjoy my videos.
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Bye!

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Cette vidéo contient 120 phrases et 1473 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 9:05. Le locuteur parle à un rythme naturel d’environ 162 mots par minute, proche d’une conversation courante. 83 % 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

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

MotPrononciationSens
downtown nom/ˈdaʊ̯nˌtaʊ̯n/centre-ville, quartier d'affaires
subway nom/ˈsʌbˌweɪ/métro, métropolitain
mall nom/mɔːl/centre commercial, mail
plaza nom/ˈplɑːzə/place
sidewalk nom/ˈsaɪdwɔk/trottoir
memorial nom/məˈmɔːɹi.əl/mémorial
exit nom/ˈɛɡzət/sortie
sponsor nom/ˈspɒn.səː/commanditaire, sponsor
fountain nom/ˈfaʊn.tɪn/fontaine
vocabulary nom/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/vocabulaire, lexique
curb nom/kɝb/bordure, bordure du trottoir
squirrel nom/ˈskwɪ.ɹ(ə)l/écureuil, écureuille
pigeon nom/ˈpɪ.dʒɪn/pigeon
hungry adjectif/ˈhʌŋ.ɡɹi/affamé, avoir faim
concrete adjectif/ˌkɑnˈkɹit/concret

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

MotPrononciationSens
walk around verbedéambuler
find out verbedécouvrir, savoir
go ahead verbe/ˌɡoʊ əˈhɛd/vas-y, allez-y

La grammaire de cette vidéo

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

StructureDans la vidéo
Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le faitis called · was constructed
Superlatifs the -est / the most … — le plus haut ou le plus bas d’un groupethe best · the tallest · the fastest
Présent continu am/is/are + -ing — ce qui se passe en ce momentis scraping · I'm tapping · is climbing
Futur avec « going to » be going to + verbe — un projet ou ce que l’on voit veniram going to teach · We're going to use · I'm going to walk

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 23 contractions et formes réduites, comme I'm, you're, don't. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

  • Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: memorial /məˈmɔːɹi.əl/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, characteristic /ˌkæɹ(ə)ktəˈɹɪstɪk/

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 downtown, subway, mall.

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