Pratique du Shadowing: He's a Dangerous LIAR - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo
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So this loser would do anything to not have to get a job.
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Now the guy's name is Jean-Claude,
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and Jean-Claude is around 20 when this story starts,
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and he's a med student studying in Lyon, France.
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And Jean-Claude is pretty much a model student.
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Like, he's doing really well in school.
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But then one day, the worst thing happens to him.
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He's in the middle of taking a bunch of his first year finals when his girlfriend breaks up with him.
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And this is devastating for Jean-Claude.
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He gets all depressed, and in fact,
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he takes it so badly that he stops showing up for his exams altogether.
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And even when he's later given another opportunity to retake them, he never does.
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And because he didn't show up for his exams,
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Jean-Claude fails the year, which means he can't move on to the second year of med school.
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And to make it worse,
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his parents basically pay his bills and finance his life,
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and he can't bring himself to tell them the truth.
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So, he lies to them.
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And he tells his parents and all his friends that he actually passed the exams,
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and that he's now in his second year of med school.
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And from that moment on, he just keeps lying.
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He never passes his first year exams,
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but he keeps going back to campus pretending to be a med student.
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He hangs around campus all day,
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he attends classes here and there with his friends,
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but he never actually takes any tests.
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And no one knows he's faking it,
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so he keeps lying to everyone.
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And a few years pass,
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and eventually Jean-Claude's classmates graduate, and he doesn't.
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But he just lies and tells everyone that he graduated too.
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And not long after that,
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he lies and claims that he landed this big,
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prestigious job as a medical researcher working for the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland and everyone is all impressed.
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And around the same time,
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he reconnects with his college girlfriend,
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the one who broke up with him.
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Her name is Florence.
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He tells Florence that he's this big shot medical researcher working at the WHO,
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and she thinks it's cool.
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And so they end up getting back together.
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And eventually, they get married and they move to Switzerland.
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And to keep this lie going,
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every morning, he leaves the house,
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pretending to go to work at the WHO,
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and he'll spend the whole day sitting in the WHO building parking lot.
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And sometimes he'll walk into the lobby and pick up magazines or brochures,
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and then he'll take them home,
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so it looks like he really works there.
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He even tells his family that he's traveling abroad for conferences and seminars.
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But in reality, he just parks his car at the airport,
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stays in a nearby hotel,
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and then quietly returns home after a few days.
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And he keeps this lie going with everyone.
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His wife, his extended family, his friends.
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Now, obviously, he can lie about having a job all he wants,
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but he still needs money to pay his bills.
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So he decides to start scamming people.
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And who better to start scamming than his own family?
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So Jean-Claude tells some of his relatives that because of his position at the WHO,
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he has access to some special investment program with high returns and that he can invest their money for them.
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So his parents, his relatives,
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and even his in-laws all start handing money over to him.
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He even starts having an affair with this side chick,
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and he convinces his side chick to hand over about 900,000 francs for him to invest,
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or about 170,000 US dollars in today's money.
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So now, Jean-Claude has access to a lot of funds.
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And of course, he isn't really investing this money.
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He's keeping it for himself.
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He mostly uses it to maintain the fake upper middle class lifestyle that he's been pretending to live for years.
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Cause you know, he's got to make it look like he has this high paying job at the WHO.
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And he keeps this con going for a long time,
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pretending to go to work,
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pretending to travel for conferences, pretending to be successful.
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But then things start to get a little complicated for Jean-Claude.
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At some point, his father-in-law wants to buy a car.
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So he asks for some of his investment money back.
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And Jean-Claude, he doesn't actually have a lump sum of money to give him.
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He spent it all.
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But he realizes that if he doesn't give him anything,
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other investors might get suspicious.
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So he decides the only way out of this predicament is to get rid of his father-in-law.
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So one day he's at home and his father-in-law is there and he waits for the right moment and then
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he allegedly pushes his father-in-law down the stairs and unfortunately the poor father-in-law doesn't survive.
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And later Jean-Claude tells police that his father-in-law must have accidentally fell and police they don't find any evidence that says otherwise.
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So that's what they go with.
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And the death is ruled an accident.
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So not only did Jean-Claude just get away with murder,
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but he ends up making even more money off of it.
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Because then his mother-in-law later sells off some of her late husband's property,
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and she hands Jean-Claude around 1.3 million francs to invest for her.
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Which means 1.3 million francs goes right into Jean-Claude's pocket.
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And so he just continues on conning and deceiving people.
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And more years pass.
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But then all this money he scammed starts to run out.
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And some of his victims,
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they're asking for their money back.
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And he has nothing left to give them.
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But that's not the only problem he's dealing with.
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People in his life are noticing some inconsistencies with Jean-Claude claiming that he works at the WHO.
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And they're starting to question him about it.
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Now, he's been lying to people for years,
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so he always has an excuse ready to give them.
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But deep down, he knows it's only a matter of time before everyone discovers
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that he's been lying about his life for nearly two decades.
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And that is when he decides
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that it would be better for his family to die than to discover what a liar he really is.
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So he goes to a local gun store and he buys some ammunition
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and a silencer for his rifle and an electric stun wand.
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And then one night, while his wife Florence is asleep beside him,
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Jean-Claude picks up a rolling pin and then pow,
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pow, he starts beating her with it until she's no longer moving.
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Then he gets his gun and blam,
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blam, he shoots his two kids.
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After that, he drives over to his parents' house and he shoots them too.
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Then he drives all the way to Paris to see his side chick,
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same side chick that he conned into investing with him years before.
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So he meets up with her and he says he wants to take her out to dinner.
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But instead of driving her to a nice restaurant,
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he drives her toward a remote area in the woods.
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And he gets her out of the car,
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and suddenly, he sprays her in the eyes with tear gas.
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Then, he zaps her with that electric stun wand he bought.
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But then, side chick starts begging him not to kill her.
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And at the last moment,
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for some reason, he decides to stop,
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and he lets her go.
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After that, he drives back home,
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and he decides the only thing he can do from here is unalive himself.
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So he takes a bunch of sleeping pills.
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Then he pours gasoline all around the house,
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and he sets the place on fire,
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and he lays down inside,
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hoping that he'll pass out and the fire will kill him.
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Until.
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Until a few minutes later,
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firefighters show up, And they manage to find Jean-Claude,
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and they rescue him from the house,
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and he ends up surviving.
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So, after he recovers in the hospital, bam, Jean-Claude is arrested.
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Here's a picture of him.
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And later, he goes to trial,
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he's found guilty, and he gets sentenced to life in prison.
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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 « He's a Dangerous LIAR ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : Jean, Claude, pretending, lie, father. Cette vidéo contient 143 phrases et 1412 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 8:12. Le locuteur parle à un rythme naturel d’environ 172 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 :
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
|---|---|---|
| chick nom | /t͡ʃɪk/ | oisillon |
| franc nom | /ˈfɹæŋk/ | franc |
| scam nom | /ˈskæm/ | entourloupe, arnaque |
| stun verbe | /stʌn/ | étourdir |
| wand nom | /wɑnd/ | baguette |
| researcher nom | /ˈɹiˌsɝ.t͡ʃɚ/ | chercheur, chercheuse |
| brochure nom | /bɹoʊˈʃʊɚ/ | brochure |
| classmate nom | /ˈklæs.meɪt/ | camarade, camarade de classe |
| deceive verbe | /dɪˈsiːv/ | tromper, leurrer |
| devastate verbe | /ˈdɛv.ə.steɪt/ | dévaster |
| firefighter nom | /ˈfaɪ.ɚˌfaɪ.tɚ/ | pompier, pompière |
| inconsistency nom | /ˌɪnkənˈsɪstənsi/ | inconsistance |
| predicament nom | /pɹɪˈdɪkəmənt/ | catégorie, classe |
| reconnect verbe | /ˌɹiː.kəˈnɛkt/ | reconnecter |
| retake verbe | /ɹiːˈteɪk/ | reprendre |
Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez
| Mot | Sens |
|---|---|
| end up verbe | se terminer, se finir |
| pick up verbe | soulever |
| get away with verbe | s'en tirer |
| get back verbe | retourner |
| hang around verbe | traîner |
| pass out verbe | distribuer |
| run out verbe | épuiser, être à court |
| sell off verbe | vendre à perte, brader |
La grammaire de cette vidéo
Les structures que le locuteur utilise le plus, avec les mots exacts de la vidéo :
| Structure | Dans la vidéo |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continu have/has been + -ing — une action commencée avant et toujours en cours | he's been pretending · he's been lying |
| Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le fait | is ruled · is arrested |
| Propositions relatives who / which + proposition — une précision sur une personne ou une chose | year, which means · one who broke |
Prononciation à surveiller
Le locuteur utilise 15 contractions et formes réduites, comme doesn't, he'll, can't. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.
- Les sons « sh » et « zh »: brochure /bɹoʊˈʃʊɚ/, ammunition /ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/, suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: firefighter /ˈfaɪ.ɚˌfaɪ.tɚ/, inconsistency /ˌɪnkənˈsɪstənsi/, predicament /pɹɪˈdɪkəmənt/, ammunition /ˌæmjuˈnɪʃən/, allegedly /əˈlɛdʒ.ɪd.li/
Comment s’entraîner avec cette vidéo
- Écoutez la vidéo en entier une fois sans parler et notez les mots que vous ne connaissez pas.
- Commencez à la vitesse 0,75×, répétez phrase par phrase, puis revenez à la vitesse normale quand cela devient facile.
- Enregistrez-vous et comparez avec l’original, en faisant attention à des mots comme chick, franc, scam.
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.