Pratique du Shadowing: How to Start a Speech - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

Création de la leçon...
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What are the first words you should say in a speech?
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And what are the last words you should say in a speech?
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Now tomorrow, I don't know how many of you are speaking, but I guarantee if you go to conferences,
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19 out of 20 speakers will start in one of these ways.
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Number one, my name is Connor Neal, I'm from Tango, Tango and this talk is about the latest trend in monitoring strategies
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Now all of you are sitting with a piece of paper in front of you
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that says I'm Connor Neal I've come from Ireland, and I'm going to talk about tango 04 on this
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So by repeating what you already know I'm giving a signal that it's a time to get your Blackberry out
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I've just signaled that this talk is Opportunity to reconnect with Blackberry make sure the office is okay
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maybe get some plans together for the weekend.
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Another way to start.
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The lights, the mic's working.
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How much time have I got?
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Okay, right.
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Okay, is it plugged in?
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And you laugh, but I guarantee tomorrow there's going to be some moments They get a little bit of that And why
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because this is for some of you the first time you
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see this individual they're here as a leader in their industry and
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Your kid at school presenting on giraffes does a better job That's sad
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So I think there's only three ways of starting a speech.
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And it's the same if you went into a bar and there's a group of people, it's a networking event, much like you were at before you walked into this room.
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And maybe I came up to a group, there's a group of three people who are having a little conversation.
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I walk in and I say, Hi, I'm Connor.
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I'm Irish, 38 years old.
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I have an interest in sailing.
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I like running. And they've walked away.
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How do you get people to engage with you when you're networking?
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I say, in networking, the best thing you can do is walk up.
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I think we know someone in common.
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Try and walk away when someone comes up and says that to you.
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Hopefully you've done your research so you do know that you know someone in common.
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But with LinkedIn, you can find out who knows who on anyone you want.
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How to start a speech?
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First way, with a question that matters to the audience.
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how do you phrase a problem that the audience faces in a question
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so that'd be the third best way of starting a speech
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the second best way of starting a speech with a factoid that shocks there's more people alive today than have ever died.
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There's more people alive today than have ever died.
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There's a lot of speeches that can follow on from there.
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Every two minutes, the energy reaching the Earth from the Sun is equivalent to the whole annual usage of humanity.
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All the energy, all the cars, everything moving, all the lighting, all the air conditioning of the world,
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in one year is equivalent to two minutes of sun.
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Does that change how you think about energy?
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So, what's a fact that shocks the audience into rethinking?
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And Google has transformed your ability to get at these facts
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given two or three minutes you can find out one whether anything I said is true
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but you trust me because I looked the part and I'm from ESing those are in fact two true facts
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I usually get someone come up to me and, are you sure?
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How do they measure dead and alive? But it's true.
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And it's not even close.
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But the best way to start a speech, and the way that I hope all of you use from now forward,
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is the same way we start a story to a child.
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Now, how do we start a story to a child?
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Erase una vez.
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Once upon a time.
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And what happens when you say once upon a time?
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I can tell you what happens when I say once upon a time,
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my daughter leans forward, gets ready to hear, engages.
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And we were all trained as kids to know when a story is coming.
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We also know when a teacher is about to deliver a 40-minute boring lecture that has no impact on our lives.
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But in business, you don't hear Jack Welsh saying, once upon a time.
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Steve Jobs doesn't start his speeches, once upon a time.
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So there's a grown-up way of saying once upon a time.
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If you listen to the conversations that are interesting around you, at a dinner table, in a networking event, if you listen to the people that are gathering the group of eight that are listening to them,
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the way they're talking is different.
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The way they start is different.
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The way you tell stories as an adult is, in October, was the last time I was in this room, there were 120 people in the room,
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and I was having a little conversation with one of the world experts on public speaking And he said something to me.
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He said something to me That's had me thinking ever since
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He said something to me that changed What I think about what's important in speaking
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Now I can pause for about 30 seconds two or three minutes and you want to know what he said
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so in speaking in sales we assume self-interest
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so if you can tell a story from your own life
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that connects you to why this topic is important to you why you first joined the company
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when you first saw someone benefit and you saw how their life was changed
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And I think here exploring what quality of life means for you In your business,
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how do you affect quality of life for a customer?
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Because that's where the stories that will start to connect you to the audience will come from
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Because stories are about people They are not about objects, they are not about things.
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It's about the people behind the things.
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If you want to tell a good story about Tango, don't talk about the software.
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Talk about the people who built the software.
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What they do, how they are, what's important to them, what they sacrifice.
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And in your own life, what does quality of life mean?
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What sacrifices have you made to achieve something that was more important?
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And if you can tell stories and the audience connect with those stories, then they want to hear what you have to say.
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And all the reasons and all the benefits, they're all written in the document and in the PowerPoint.
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But they need to trust you.
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And they need to care about you as a person to engage with you and then decide that they will act.

Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon

Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau B2 s’appuie sur la vidéo « How to Start a Speech ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : speech, upon, audience, stories. Cette vidéo contient 89 phrases et 1151 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 8:41. Le locuteur parle à un rythme régulier d’environ 132 mots par minute, confortable pour le shadowing. 87 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais, le vocabulaire est donc facile à suivre. 15 de ses 89 phrases sont des questions : un bon entraînement pour l’intonation interrogative et les réponses courtes.

Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo

Les 12 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :

MotPrononciationSens
tango nom/ˈtæ̝ŋɡoʊ̯/tango
giraffe nom/d͡ʒəˈɹæf/girafe, chameaupard
reconnect verbe/ˌɹiː.kəˈnɛkt/reconnecter
rethink verbe/ɹiːˈθɪŋk/repenser, réfléchir
erase verbe/ɪˈɹeɪs/effacer
bore verbe/boɹ/ennuyer, barber
pause nom/pɔːz/pause
sail nom/seɪl/voile
transform verbe/tɹænsˈfɔɹm/transformer
plug nom/plʌɡ/fiche
lecture nom/ˈlɛk.t͡ʃə/conférence, cours magistral
lean verbe/ˈliːn/pencher

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

MotSens
find out verbedécouvrir, savoir
come up verbese montrer, sortir du bois
grow up verbegrandir

Des phrases à répéter

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

  • What are the first words you should say in a speech?
  • How much time have I got?
  • How do you get people to engage with you when you're networking?
  • Does that change how you think about energy?
  • I usually get someone come up to me and, are you sure?

La grammaire de cette vidéo

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

StructureDans la vidéo
Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenantI've come · I've just signaled · they've walked
Propositions relatives who / which + proposition — une précision sur une personne ou une chosepeople who are · people who built

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 20 contractions et formes réduites, comme I'm, don't, they're. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :

  • /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: giraffe /d͡ʒəˈɹæf/, lecture /ˈlɛk.t͡ʃə/
  • /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: giraffe /d͡ʒəˈɹæf/, reconnect /ˌɹiː.kəˈnɛkt/, rethink /ɹiːˈθɪŋk/, erase /ɪˈɹeɪs/, bore /boɹ/

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 tango, giraffe, reconnect.

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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