Pratique du Shadowing: English Listening Practice - Childhood Activities - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

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Welcome to the Listening Time Podcast.

Hey everybody, this is Connor and you're listening to episode 123 of the Listening Time Podcast.

I hope you're all doing great.

At the time of recording this, it's the very end of summer here in the Northern Hemisphere,

and so autumn is just around the corner.

In English, when we say that something is just around the corner,

we're saying that it's about to appear or it's about to happen.

It's gonna happen very soon.

So fall is just around the corner

and a lot of people are really happy about this because a lot of people here like this season.

They like autumn.

They like to see the colors changing.

They like the seasonal food.

There are a lot of different types of food

that people start to eat during autumn that they don't eat during the spring or summer.

And so a lot of people like this season.

One fun thing about this season is that there are a lot of activities for children.

For example, pumpkin patches, these places where they sell pumpkins,

but they also have a lot of activities for kids.

And me and my family, we're planning on going to a couple pumpkin patches this season.

And I think that I'll do an episode on pumpkin patches.

So you'll get to hear about that, hopefully.

And I was thinking about this topic of fun activities for children

because I was thinking about pumpkin patches and about different things like that.

And I decided that I wanted to do an episode about some of my favorite activities

that I did when I was a kid.

So my childhood activities, specifically things that I did outdoors, things that I did outside.

I thought it would be fun to look back

and remember my childhood and some of my favorite things that I did outside

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Alright, let's get started. Are your ears ready?

You know what time it is.

It's listening time.

Alright, let's talk about some of my favorite childhood activities that I did.

some of my favorite things that I did outdoors because I did some things indoors as well.

I had some fun activities that I did inside, but I want to focus on the outdoor activities today.

So the first one that I want to talk about is building a tree house.

So you've probably seen this in movies or TV shows before where the kids build some type of house in their backyard,

maybe in a big tree.

And this is something that is a pretty classic tradition here in the U.S.

people like tree houses this is a fun thing for kids however I built a tree house

that was a little bit different from what you're probably imagining we didn't build a house

that was a closed box like you see in the movies usually

we built a treehouse where we just had these different platforms on different branches of the tree.

A platform is just a flat space and in this case a space where you can stand on.

So my friend and I we built this treehouse

that had many different platforms at different levels and on different branches

and we would have to climb to the different platforms using these steps that we also built.

We used wood and nailed the wood into the tree to build steps that we could step on.

By the way, when we say that you nail something,

we're saying that you use a nail this sharp little tool

and you use that and you hit it into the object you nail it

so we nailed these wooden steps into the tree trunk so

that we could climb the tree to get to the different platforms

I know that this might be a little difficult to visualize, but that's probably the best way that I can describe it.

And building this treehouse was really fun.

I think we had more fun building the treehouse than we did playing in the treehouse.

So it was really fun to construct this, and we were pretty young when we built this.

I think I was like 10 years old maybe.

So we were young.

It was probably a little dangerous, but we did it anyway.

And this was the first time that I really used a hammer and nails on my own.

So I learned how to hammer things when I built this treehouse.

and it was a great place to play

and to use our imagination to create games and things like

that in this treehouse and in general I always really liked climbing trees as a kid

that was always something that I enjoyed and

so this was a perfect project for me because I got the chance to climb this tree and also build something,

use my imagination, play, etc. So that was one of my favorite activities as a kid.

Another childhood activity that I wanted to mention is that I actually collected bugs for a time.

The word bug just means insect, right?

So I actually collected bugs during a brief time in my life.

Now, when I look back on this, it seems kind of gross to me.

The word gross just means disgusting.

So it seems kind of gross when I think back to all the bugs that I collected.

I remember that in particular, I collected caterpillars, you know,

these things that turn into butterflies, right?

So I collected caterpillars and I remember putting them in a container

and I tried to create a good environment for them in this container.

I put leaves and sticks and things like that inside and I fed them fruit.

I remember feeding them cantaloupe, actually.

If you don't know what a cantaloupe is,

this is that type of melon that's orange on the inside.

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That's cantaloupe.

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So I remember feeding them cantaloupe and cleaning the container.

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And I don't know why I was so interested in them,

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but for some reason, I like to collect them and watch them interact with each other in this container.

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And I also remember collecting some beetles.

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I remember doing that.

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I don't remember all of the other specific bugs that I collected,

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but I just remember that I liked to watch them interact with each other.

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I would combine

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some different bugs together and watch what they did to see

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if they would get along or if they would fight or whatever.

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By the way, the phrasal verb get along means that you are in harmony with another person or another animal.

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So it means that you don't fight with each other, you get along.

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So I think that I liked to experiment a little bit and see if these bugs would get along with each other.

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So that's another activity that I did as a kid.

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And another one was making paper airplanes.

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So I loved making paper airplanes as a kid,

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especially because I loved trying to find the different combinations of folds that would result in the best airplane.

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I don't know if you have much experience making paper airplanes,

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but of course it really matters how you fold the paper.

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So if you fold the paper in certain ways and you follow a certain design,

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you can make a pretty impressive airplane actually.

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Some airplanes that we made actually stayed in the air for quite a while.

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And I remember that we had one design in particular that was the best one.

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So my neighbor and I found this perfect design

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that we would recreate time and time again and create these airplanes

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and try to make them fly as high and as long as possible.

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And so it was a very intricate design.

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The word intricate means that something is very detailed.

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And so this was an intricate design.

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I still remember how to make this paper airplane even now as an adult.

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That's how many times I made it.

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I made it so many times that I still have that muscle memory.

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I still remember exactly how to make this airplane.

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So we found that perfect design and we always tried to improve it or find an even better design.

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So we found some other combinations of folds that worked pretty well,

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but we never ended up beating that one really good design that we found.

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but it was really fun to do that and to experiment with different types of designs.

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I really like that.

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I like experimenting with different options and trying to create different designs with things like that.

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That's something that I enjoy and I really enjoyed it as a kid.

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So that was another good activity that I had.

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And another one was something that we called cardboarding.

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So we would slide down this big hill on pieces of cardboard.

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Cardboard is that material that is used to package items,

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to transport them or ship them to another place.

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By the way, when we say shipping, when we say that an item ships, we're saying that it is sent from one place to another.

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So cardboard is that material that's used to ship items, to package them and ship them.

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So we would cut big pieces of cardboard from these different boxes

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and we would sit on them and then slide down this big hill that was behind my house.

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So this was something that my friend came up with.

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By the way, when we say that you come up with something, we're saying that you think of an idea.

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So this is something that he came up with and I joined in and we had a lot of fun doing this.

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It didn't always work really well because sometimes the grass grew in a way that didn't allow us to slide very well.

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So we had to work around that

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and do our best to be able to make it to the bottom of the hill on this cardboard.

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but it was actually a little bit dangerous because we weren't able to stop very well.

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You don't really have a brake system with this type of cardboard obviously. So

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if we made it to the bottom of the hill on

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the cardboard sometimes we wouldn't be able to stop well and we would

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kind of fall off of it and maybe it would hurt a little bit.

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Or we might run into something and we would crash, right?

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So it was a little bit dangerous.

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And I think there were a few times when I got hurt, but nothing serious, just minor things.

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But that was an activity that was a fun one in the sense

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that we created it and it wasn't something that other people really did.

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We didn't learn about it from anyone else.

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My friend just created it.

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He had this idea and we just did it

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and we were the only ones that we knew who did this type of activity.

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So that was pretty cool.

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It was born out of kids imagination, right?

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It was just something that we decided to do

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because it sounded fun and we had the material and we made it work.

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We did it until we found the perfect way to do it and then we had fun with it.

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I really like when kids come up with interesting games and activities like that.

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I think that's really cool.

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And speaking of that, the last activity that I want to talk about is playing make-believe.

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In English, when we say that you make-believe or you play make-believe,

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we're saying that you create situations and games from your imagination.

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things that aren't real but you imagine them and then you play this game or you do this activity.

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So I played make-believe a lot when I was around the age of six or seven around that age.

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I remember playing with my old neighbor in my old house,

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my first house, and I remember inventing different games together where we would have to make believe,

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we had to pretend and imagine these different situations.

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By the way, in this context, the word pretend means that you imagine something that isn't real,

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but you act like it's real.

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Okay, so for example, if I pretend that I'm a superhero,

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this means that I'm acting and imagining that I'm a superhero, even though it's not real, right?

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So I remember pretending and coming up with all of these different scenarios with my neighbor.

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And we just went through these whole storylines and pretended that we were different characters doing different things.

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And it was tons of fun.

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I remember that our favorite thing to pretend was that we were on a big boat.

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We called it the boat game.

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And we pretended that we were these sailors on this big boat

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and we were navigating the open seas and we encountered all of these different complications and problems.

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I don't know where we got that idea from.

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I have no idea how we started that,

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but I just remember that we loved playing this boat game and using our imagination.

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So I really like that type of activity, that make-believe type of activity,

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because I think it's really good for kids.

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It helps kids use their imagination and not just rely on being given the stimulation from a screen or from something else.

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Kids have to think of things on their own and create things from nothing.

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I really like that.

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And I think it's also beneficial in the sense that it helps kids become more social, right?

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You have to work with your friends and you have to

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agree with each other and get along with each other while you're imagining these situations and playing in this context.

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And I think it also helps kids become a little more independent

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and it helps them begin to play on their own and not just need their parents to play with them, for example.

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So I think that there are a lot of good benefits for kids to play make-believe.

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I really like that.

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and I'm interested to see when my son will start to play make-believe and create scenarios like that that are imaginary.

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I'm looking forward to that stage in his life.

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I think that will be fun.

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All right, why don't I stop there?

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All right, thank you for listening to this episode and I'll talk to you on the next episode of Listening Time.

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Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau B1 s’appuie sur la vidéo « English Listening Practice - Childhood Activities ». Cette vidéo contient 227 phrases et 2796 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 24:18. Le locuteur parle à un rythme régulier d’environ 115 mots par minute, confortable pour le shadowing. 86 % 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 :

Mot	Prononciation	Sens
airplane nom	/ˈɛɹˌpleɪ̯n/	avion, aéroplane
treehouse nom	/ˈtɹiːˌhaʊs/	maison arboricole, maison dans les arbres
cardboard nom	/ˈkɑɹdˌbɔɹd/	carton
podcast nom	/ˈpɑdˌkæst/	podcast, balado
pretend verbe	/pɹəˈtɛnd/	feindre, faire semblant
bug nom	/bʌɡ/	punaise
nail nom	/neɪl/	ongle
imagination nom	/ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/	imagination
pumpkin nom	/ˈpʌm(p).kɪn/	citrouille
cantaloupe nom	/ˈkæn.tə.loʊp/	cantaloup
container nom	/kənˈteɪ.nəɹ/	récipient, contenant
fold verbe	/ˈfəʊld/	plier
patch nom	/pæt͡ʃ/	pièce
climb verbe	/ˈklaɪ̯m/	grimper, monter
intricate adjectif	/ˈɪn.tɹɪ.kət/	intriqué, compliqué

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

Mot	Sens
come up with verbe	inventer, imaginer
get along verbe	s'entendre
check out verbe	mater, regarder
end up verbe	se terminer, se finir
go through verbe	traverser
look back verbe	se remémorer
look forward to verbe	avoir hâte de, attendre avec impatience
sign up verbe	inscrire

Des phrases à répéter

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

I hope you're all doing great.
Are your ears ready?
That's how many times I made it.
We didn't learn about it from anyone else.
All right, why don't I stop there?

La grammaire de cette vidéo

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

Structure	Dans la vidéo
Phrases conditionnelles if + proposition, will/would + verbe — une condition et son résultat	if you like this podcast, I'd appreciate
Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le fait	is sent · was born · being given
Passé continu was/were + -ing — une action en cours à un moment du passé	was thinking · was making · were navigating
Superlatifs the -est / the most … — le plus haut ou le plus bas d’un groupe	the best · our best

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 43 contractions et formes réduites, comme don't, you're, we're. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

Les sons « sh » et « zh »: imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, specialize /ˈspɛʃəˌlaɪz/, combinations /kɑmbɪˈneɪʃənz/, complication /ˌkɑm.pləˈkeɪ.ʃən/, visualize /ˈvɪʒuəˌlaɪz/
Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, caterpillar /ˈkætɚˌpɪlɚ/, combinations /kɑmbɪˈneɪʃənz/, superhero /ˈs(j)upɚhɪɹoʊ/, complication /ˌkɑm.pləˈkeɪ.ʃən/

Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :

/h/ — il se souffle, il n’est pas muet: treehouse /ˈtɹiːˌhaʊs/, superhero /ˈs(j)upɚhɪɹoʊ/, hammer /ˈhæmɚ/, harmony /ˈhɑ̟ɹ.mə.ni/
/tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: imagination /ɪˌmæd͡ʒəˈneɪʃən/, patch /pæt͡ʃ/, imaginary /ɪˈmæd͡ʒɪˌn(ɛ)ɹi/
/r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: airplane /ˈɛɹˌpleɪ̯n/, treehouse /ˈtɹiːˌhaʊs/, cardboard /ˈkɑɹdˌbɔɹd/, pretend /pɹəˈtɛnd/, container /kənˈteɪ.nəɹ/

Comment s’entraîner avec cette vidéo

Écoutez la vidéo en entier une fois sans parler et notez les mots que vous ne connaissez pas.
Répétez phrase par phrase à vitesse normale, en reprenant chacune jusqu’à ce que votre rythme corresponde à celui du locuteur.
Enregistrez-vous et comparez avec l’original, en faisant attention à des mots comme airplane, treehouse, cardboard.

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.

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