Pratique du Shadowing: English Collocations: Family - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

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Lesson 1.
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Family.
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Let's begin our study of collocations by learning some common expressions about the family.
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Your parents and siblings, brothers and sisters, are your immediate family, and your extended family includes all your relatives,
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uncles, cousins, great-aunts, etc. You can use a family tree to diagram the relationships among your family members.
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A person who is related to you by a long series of connections can be called a distant relative.
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If you're lucky, you have a loving family or a close-knit family.
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These expressions refer to a family that has good relationships, where everyone loves each other and helps each other.
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If you were raised in a loving family, then you probably had a carefree childhood.
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That means you had nothing to worry about when you were young.
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On the other hand, a family in which the relationships are bad or unhealthy can be called a dysfunctional family.
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If the children experience abuse, poverty, or problems with the law, we can say they had a troubled childhood.
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Perhaps the parents went through a bitter divorce.
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That means a separation in which there were bad or angry feelings between the husband and wife.
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It's also possible to have a messy divorce,
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with a prolonged legal battle involving lots of conflicts about the separation of the former couple's assets, money and possessions.
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The decisions about the separation of assets are made in the divorce settlement.
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A family in which there are divorces or separations is sometimes called a broken home.
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Sometimes the mother and father fight over custody of the children.
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That refers to who has the primary responsibility of caring for the kids.
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A judge can grant joint custody.
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That means the ex-husband and ex-wife share the responsibility, or sole custody to only one parent.
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For example, a judge might award sole custody to the mother,
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and the father has to pay child support—regular payments to help with expenses for the kids.
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If it was a mutual divorce or separation—that means the ex-husband
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and ex-wife agreed to separate without fighting—then they will probably stay on good terms with each other,
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meaning to have a polite relationship without conflicts.
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If a woman gets pregnant without being married or in a relationship, then she will become a single mother.
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Some women in this situation choose to have an abortion, and others prefer to give the baby up for adoption.
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The time when the baby is planned to arrive is called the due date.
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you can also say the baby is due in mid-October, for example.
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After the woman has the baby or gives birth to the baby, the baby is given to the adoptive parents who will raise the child
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or bring up the child as if it was their own.
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Sometimes when the adopted child is older, he or she tries to find their birth mother, biological mother.
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Now take the quiz for Lesson 1, Collocations About Family.

Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon

Cette vidéo contient 35 phrases et 497 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 3:43. Le locuteur parle à un rythme régulier d’environ 134 mots par minute, confortable pour le shadowing. 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
divorce nom/dɪˈvɔːs/divorce
separation nom/ˌsɛp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/séparation
custody nom/ˈkʌstədiː/garde
relative nom/ˈɹɛl.ə.tɪv/parent
refer verbe/ɹɪˈfɜː/référer
sole nom/səʊl/plante, plante du pied
asset nom/ˈæsɛt/actif
poverty nom/ˈpɑːvɚti/pauvreté
uncle nom/ˈʌŋ.kl̩/oncle, tonton
cousin nom/ˈkʌz(ə)n/cousin, cousine
arrive verbe/əˈɹaɪv/arriver
possession nom/pəˈzɛʃn̩/possession
extend verbe/ɛkˈstɛnd/étendre
biological adjectif/ˌbaɪ.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/biologique
involve verbe/ɪnˈvɑlv/impliquer, involver

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

MotSens
bring up verbeélever
go through verbetraverser

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 related · were raised · can be called
Futur avec « will » will + verbe — une décision, une promesse ou une prédictionwill probably stay · will become · will raise

Prononciation à surveiller

  • Les sons « sh » et « zh »: separation /ˌsɛp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, possession /pəˈzɛʃn̩/, abortion /əˈbɔɹ.ʃn̩/, adoption /əˈdɑp.ʃən/, collocation /ˌkɑ.ləˈkeɪ.ʃən/
  • Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: separation /ˌsɛp.əˈɹeɪ.ʃən/, biological /ˌbaɪ.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəl/, collocation /ˌkɑ.ləˈkeɪ.ʃən/

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 divorce, separation, custody.

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