Pratique du Shadowing: I Lost Their Indoor Cat 😭 - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

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While cat sitting for my neighbors, I let their indoor cat out the front door, and by midnight I was sure I had gotten her killed.
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The Arnolds had left me a note on the kitchen counter written in bold letters.
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Astrid has never been outside, and she hates it.
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Do not open the front door without checking where she is first.
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I read the note three times, then my delivery driver showed up with the pizza I ordered.
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I pulled the door open without looking down, and Astrid went out between his legs,
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like she had been waiting her whole life for that exact moment. and went after her.
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She ran under a row of hedges along the side of the house.
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I got down on my stomach and reached in.
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She wasn't there.
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I checked under the deck and behind the trash cans.
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I knocked on a door down the block.
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A guy in a hoodie pulled out his phone before I finished asking and showed me a video from his porch camera.
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A coyote was walking down the street with something limp in its mouth.
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They come through almost every night now.
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They ate two cats on this block last month.
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He tapped my shoulder.
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I'd start looking now if I were you.
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I went back to the Arnold's house as
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I put a bowl of tuna on the back patio
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and turned off the kitchen lights so I could watch the yard from the window.
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Around 10, I heard a howl somewhere past the back fence, then another one answering it from a different direction.
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Around 10 .30, I saw something move at the edge of the yard.
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It was too big to be a cat.
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I flipped the porch light on, and whatever it was was gone.
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The tuna bowl was on its side and empty.
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I refilled it and went back to the window.
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At 11, I heard a rustle in the bushes and ran outside with a stick I had been gripping all night.
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next to the bowl.
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I waved the stick at it until it walked off and then somewhere down the block, a cat screamed.
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I ran out into the street holding the stick like an idiot.
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There was nothing there, no cat, no coyote, no movement under any of the cars.
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I walked back to the patio and called for Astrid until my throat hurt. By 12, I was at the kitchen table writing the apology text I
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was going to send the Arnolds telling them how Astrid might have gotten eaten by coyotes.
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Then all of a sudden, scratching.
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I went to the door and there was Astrid sitting on the mat looking up at me.
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Her paws were wet from the grass.
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She walked past me into the kitchen and went straight to her food bowl.
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I remembered the note.
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She has never been outside and she hates it.
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She had spent the whole night out there hating it, hiding from things that wanted to eat her and then she had come home on her own.
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I deleted the text, picked up the pizza box from the porch and threw it in the trash.
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The Arnold's pulled in at nine on the dot.
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Mrs. Arnold got out of the car and asked how the weekend had fine.
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She handed me $80 in cash.
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I took it and walked out.
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Somewhere past the fence a coyote howled, and I walked faster than I needed to.

Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon

Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau B1 s’appuie sur la vidéo « I Lost Their Indoor Cat 😭 ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : cat, Astrid, walked, door, coyote. Cette vidéo contient 47 phrases et 580 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 2:38. Le locuteur parle vite, environ 220 mots par minute : attendez-vous à des liaisons et à des sons réduits. Seuls 79 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais, le vocabulaire est donc exigeant.

Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo

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

MotPrononciationSens
coyote nom/kəˈjoʊ.ti/coyote
porch nom/pɔɹt͡ʃ/porche, véranda
howl verbe/ˈhaʊ̯l/hurler
tuna nom/ˈtjuː.nə/thon
fence nom/fɛns/clôture, cloison
rustle nom/ˈɹʌsəl/bruissement, froufrou
hedge nom/ˈhɛd͡ʒ/haie
apology nom/əˈpɑ.lə.d͡ʒi/excuse
indoor adjectif/ˈɪndoɹ/intérieur, en salle
grip nom/ˈɡɹɪp/prise, poigne
scream verbe/skɹiːm/crier
scratch verbe/skɹæt͡ʃ/gratter
flip verbe/flɪp/retourner
delete verbe/dɪˈliːt/supprimer
bold adjectif/ˈbəʊld/hardi, effronté

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

MotSens
go out verbesortir
pick up verbesoulever
pull out verbese retirer
turn off verbeéteindre

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 maintenanthas never been
Verbe + -ing enjoy, keep, stop… + -ing — les verbes suivis de la forme en -ingfinished asking · start looking

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. Commencez à la vitesse 0,75×, répétez phrase par phrase, puis revenez à la vitesse normale quand cela devient facile.
  3. Enregistrez-vous et comparez avec l’original, en faisant attention à des mots comme coyote, porch, howl.

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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