Pratique du Shadowing: I Built a GIANT LEGO Castle… - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

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This is a LEGO castle.

It has a working portcullis and drawbridge, dungeons, kitchens, cottages, and not one, not two, but three LEGO frogs.

And this… is 10 of them.

I also have a ton of extra bricks, including a thousand of… this brick, this brick, this brick, this brick, this brick, this brick, this brick, French stick, this brick, that brick, those bricks, these bricks, and take a look at all of… these frogs!

The plan is quite simply to build until I run out of pieces, and hopefully that should make a pretty big castle, big enough, jelly-beans crossed, for my two cats, Ralph and Bella.

I’ve previously built Château de Ralph, multi-tiered and much-ignored, followed by Boxingham Palace, much larger but largely boring.

This LEGO castle therefore will complete the trilogy, and since my cats are generally rather fond of my LEGO creations, insert footage of Bella head-butting every LEGO set I’ve ever made here, I’m hoping I can trick them into actually liking this one.

But then the weirdest thing happened.

I laid the first brick, and as if by magic the castle started building itself.

I’m kidding, it was a painfully meticulous process, but with the initial footprint locked in place, building upwards was incredibly satisfying, and very soon, the towers were joined together.

So the towers are connected, I’ve built a portcullis although it’s fixed in position, and I’ve added all these arrow-slits and the used masonry bricks to give it some kind of texture, you can really get a feel for how it’s gonna look now.

Next I built a dining hall, complete with a comically long table, Christmas decorations and a suit of armour, as well as a kitchen in one turret and a drink storage room in the other.

The kitchen has all manner of cooking utensils, but only enough ingredients to make carrot sandwiches.

Deeeeelicious!

The drinks room sees barrels, bottles and goblets galore, and has a very long ladder leading down to the bottom of the castle.

Now you might have noticed that both rooms have an umbrella, and the kitchen even has a mop and bucket in there, and that is because I forgot to build a roof.

Yeah. Lack of roof aside, I was incredibly pleased with how this first section turned out, but it was about to get a whole lot bigger.

First was a simple square tower, built in a spellbindingly spinny timelapse that unfortunately stopped recording halfway through.

Yup, how unsatisfying is that?!

This is what the finished tower looks like anyway, and I gave it a rooftop garden, with a fountain, beehive and tons of overgrown plants.

I then built an identical tower, but this time with two rooms inside.

The lower room is the castle Treasury, overflowing with gold coins, gold bars, and solid gold frogs.

The upper room is a study, including a globe, grandfather clock, cartographer’s writing desk and bookshelf.

I’m really happy with how it turned out, and there’s even a colony of seagulls nesting on the roof.

How cute is that?

So we’re up to an entranceway and two towers, but I think it’s time we build the biggest part of the castle, the keep.

This section alone is already the biggest thing I’ve ever made from LEGO.

It’s huge, and features a cat tunnel through the middle, as well as two rooms, an armoury on one side and a bedroom on the other.

You can probably tell from the cobwebs and bright green carpet that was outdated even in medieval times that the armoury hasn’t been used in a very long time, and that’s because the castle’s occupants are pacifists.

The bedroom sees all the normal furniture, plus the original Van Gogh’s Starry Night painting, a shelf of weird and wonderful artefacts, and a pen with twin lambs who are being hand-reared.

There are then also these thatched cottage sections, adapted from the original castle, and two bell towers.

Now I ran out of windows as I was building this, so I’ve had to use ivy to tactically cover the caps, but other than that I’m delighted with it, it’s enormous!

It finally felt like I was getting somewhere, especially once I built the walls and connected all the sections together.

But before the grand reveal, it’s time for some finishing touches.

I built stables, home to the castle’s horses, plus a farm, with cows, pigs, chickens, and sheep, as well as lots of babies.

I added crops, such as corn, pumpkins, and a hopeful prize-winning carrot, a market, selling fresh produce and baked goods, and the fountain of youth, which appears to have worked a little too well.

Then I built a dragon, and placed him on the roof of the keep.

He’s incredibly fragile and flimsy, which aren’t exactly desirable qualities when describing your castle’s fierce defender.

Next is probably the most important part of the entire castle, a time traveller.

You see being YouTube, some people watching will inevitably have felt the overwhelming urge to smugly point out that for instance, teddy bears weren’t invented until 1902, so how could there possibly be one in a medieval castle?

Well it was the time traveller of course.

Or maybe they can’t resist informing me that Van Gogh didn’t in fact paint starry night until 1889, so I’m wrong.

Nope, they’re wrong, there’s a time traveller, in fact Van Gogh is the time traveller.

Verrassing!

Or that Christmas trees weren’t a thing until the 16th century, nor were pumpkins or sweetcorn grown in Europe, or carrots coloured orange nor did they start growing vertically out of the ground like this until 2064.

It was the time traveller mate, didn’t you see him?

For once, this video is entirely free of inaccuracies- ah, he’s gone.

Well I guess it’s time for that grand reveal then.

It’s crazy to think something this big is made entirely from LEGO, Bella was first, wasting no time in rubbing up against the castle.

And once inside the castle walls, promptly set about attacking the crowd of innocent villagers.

She soon discovered the treats I’d put in the cat tunnel, and that it made a wonderful place to scratch.

But the spikes on the portcullis proved to be an even more satisfying place to scratch her head.

And the rest of her body.

She then attacked the villagers some more, and sat down to admire her destruction.

All in all, I don’t think Bella was too impressed, I know the poor villagers certainly weren’t anyway.

But what would Ralph make of the castle?

He immediately started rubbing his head on the portcullis, with a little too much force.

Why must you destroy the things I love?

He then headed inside, to sit unamusedly in the courtyard, before showing no regard whatsoever for the castle walls and hopping straight over them.

On second thought, I don’t want this to be a cat castle anymore.

I want it to be a Chris castle.

I repaired the damage, rescued the villagers, and enjoyed the castle for myself.

The cats are more than happy with their many other toys, and I was unquestionably delighted with mine.

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Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau B1 s’appuie sur la vidéo « I Built a GIANT LEGO Castle… ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : castle, brick, built, Lego, tower. Cette vidéo contient 63 phrases et 1215 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 6:47. Le locuteur parle à un rythme naturel d’environ 179 mots par minute, proche d’une conversation courante. Seuls 71 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais, le vocabulaire est donc exigeant.

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Les 15 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :

Mot	Prononciation	Sens
brick nom	/ˈbɹɪk/	brique
traveller nom	/ˈtɹævəlɚ/	voyageur, voyageuse
portcullis nom	/pɔɹtˈkʌl.ɪs/	herse
villager nom	/ˈvɪlɪd͡ʒɚ/	villageois, villageoise
carrot nom	/ˈkæɹət/	carotte
medieval adjectif	/mɪdˈi.vəl/	médiéval, moyenâgeux
armoury nom	/ˈɑɹməɹi/	arsenal
starry adjectif	/ˈstɑɹ.i/	étoilé
pumpkin nom	/ˈpʌm(p).kɪn/	citrouille
fountain nom	/ˈfaʊn.tɪn/	fontaine
rub verbe	/ɹʌb/	frotter
delight nom	/dəˈlaɪt/	plaisir, délice
satisfy verbe	/ˈsætɪsfaɪ/	satisfaire
cottage nom	/ˈkɒt.ɪd͡ʒ/	cottage
scratch verbe	/skɹæt͡ʃ/	gratter

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

Mot	Sens
turn out verbe	se finir, se terminer
point out verbe	pointer

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 have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenant	I've previously built · I've ever made · I've built
Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le fait	were joined · are connected · was outdated

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 25 contractions et formes réduites, comme I've, I'm, weren't. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

Les sons « th »: thatch /θæt͡ʃ/, grandfather /ˈɡɹæn(d)ˌfɑðɚ/
Les sons « sh » et « zh »: bookshelf /ˈbʊkˌʃɛlf/, decoration /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/, shelf /ʃɛlf/, sheep /ˈʃiːp/
Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: comically /ˈkɑmɪk(ə)li/, inaccuracy /ɪnˈæk.jɚ.ə.si/, meticulous /mɪˈtɪkjɪlɪs/, unquestionably /ʌnˈkwɛs.t͡ʃən.ə.bli/, vertically /ˈvɝ.tɪ.kəli/

Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :

/h/ — il se souffle, il n’est pas muet: beehive /ˈbiːhaɪv/, hopeful /ˈhoʊpfl̩/, whatsoever /ˌ(h)wʌtsoʊˈɛvɚ/, halfway /ˌhæfˈweɪ/
/tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: villager /ˈvɪlɪd͡ʒɚ/, cottage /ˈkɒt.ɪd͡ʒ/, scratch /skɹæt͡ʃ/, drawbridge /ˈdɹɔːbɹɪd͡ʒ/, thatch /θæt͡ʃ/
/r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: brick /ˈbɹɪk/, traveller /ˈtɹævəlɚ/, portcullis /pɔɹtˈkʌl.ɪs/, carrot /ˈkæɹət/, armoury /ˈɑɹməɹi/

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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 brick, traveller, portcullis.

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