Pratique du Shadowing: I'm So Clumsy! | Advanced English Listening Practice - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

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Hello everybody, this is Elliot from ETJ English.
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How are you all doing today?
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So I thought today maybe we'd do a bit of a listening practice, okay?
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So we're just going to listen to me talk a little bit.
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Feel free to just kind of sit back, relax, listen to my voice and analyse the way I speak and also enjoy the story.
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But first of all, I want to talk about something called clumsiness
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or to be clumsy because this is really related to the story I'm going to tell you.
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So first of all, I am a very, very, very, very, very clumsy person.
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I'm extremely clumsy, okay?
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To be clumsy essentially is to be the sort of person who has a lot of accidents.
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Let's say you're, let me give you another true story.
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Let's say I'm sat at a restaurant.
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As always in the restaurant, I've got lovely glass of wine next to me.
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Red wine, that's my chosen alcoholic beverage.
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Maybe it's just, you know, just here on the table.
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I'm talking and bang!
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In the middle of conversation, the red wine is all over the white tablecloth.
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Everything is red now and I have ruined my date, let's say, or my whatever it is that I'm doing,
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my meal, and probably have to pay some kind of fine to the restaurant for for destroying their tablecloth
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and this is what clumsiness is essentially in its purest form clumsiness is
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when we always have accidents things always go wrong maybe we're
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not very good with our hands they always end up knocking
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things over to knock something over is to make something fall
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we might smash things imagine a glass drop it on the
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floor smashed um also we i'm not very good with my legs
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so i might fall over quite a lot hit my knee on a door
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or or walk into the bed or hit my head on something okay
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so this is what clumsiness is
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and this is me i want to tell you a little story about
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when i was uh about 14 i was in year eight in school
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and it was a very hot summer day okay very hot summer day
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and it was lunchtime break time some people call it where we have time out from lessons
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and we relax there's a place where all of my friends where we used to sit
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and chill out relax talk catch up with each other in a field
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and there was lots of trees in this field
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and me being the person i was
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when i was a teenager all i wanted to do was
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kind of impress the impress the girls make them think i'm i'm really cool
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which I'm not and I decided to climb a tree
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so I climbed to the top of this tree took me a while
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and when I got to the top of this tree I you know shouted I wanted everyone to see
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that I was at the top of this tree
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so I shouted I was right at the top of this tree look at me
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and um I fell so straight away I just went and
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that that was that my my wrists hit the ground one wrist went like
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that one wrist went like that
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and they were completely out of shape not the way they should be quite obviously they were broken
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because I'd fallen quite a high distance not only that
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but I also landed flat on my nose and it was broken and there was blood everywhere.
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I was knocked out, okay?
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To be knocked out means to be unconscious.
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So yes, I hit my head, my face so hard that I was knocked out.
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And the next thing I knew, I was woken up in hospital with two broken wrists and a flat nose.
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And that's probably why my nose is such a funny shape now.
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And this really did affect me it changed my my year i guess i had six months off school
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because i could do nothing with my arms i couldn't write
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i was stuck like a robot for a long time
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and um my mum had to wash me in the bath
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because i i couldn't i couldn't have a bath on my
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own my mum had to wash me even worse my my
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parents had to use the toilet paper on my bottom yes
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that's right my parents had to wipe my ass for me i never thought i would tell anyone this
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and now i'm telling 20 000 people
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that my parents have had to wipe my bottom
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when i was a teenager which is really embarrassing
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but this is what happened one thing i'd also like to
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tell you i want to teach you a bit of vocabulary in this
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comesy -ness runs in my family it runs in the family now
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if something runs in the family what that means is
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that it's something
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that kind of maybe happens to my dad he's always knocking
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glasses over at the table he's always smashing plates by accident dropping things so same as me
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It also happens to my sister.
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It also happened to my granddad before he passed away.
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So it's something that runs in the family.
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A lot of people in my family, it happens to them also.
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They also have this clumsy gene every day.
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It's an everyday problem.
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It's like a disease.
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And I actually think it's quite an endearing thing.
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Endearing.
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It's something that's quite interesting about a person.
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It's something different.
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It's unique and I embrace it.
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Now I laugh about any incidents that happened to me.
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But the reason I'm kind of telling this listening practice is because I actually want you to tell me, are you a clumsy person?
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Does this happen to you?
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Do you have any really interesting stories that you want to tell me about your clumsy experiences?
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Or are you a perfect person who never makes mistakes?
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Because I know there are some of you out there who are just very lucky and not clumsy at all.
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Now thank you very much for watching.
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If you would like to book a Skype lesson with me, learn real British English, pronunciation, connected speech, expressions, everything and become one of my friends as well as a student of mine,
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feel free to go down below in the description box and book a Skype lesson with me.
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The first lesson is just two pounds.
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It's been a pleasure telling you this story.
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Please do tell me if you enjoy these listening practices and I will do more along with the lessons also.
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But yes, thank you very much for watching guys.
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You're all great.
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There's 20 ,000 of you now.
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I could not be happier.
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Let's make it 100 ,000.
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Come on, let's do it.
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Tell all your friends about ETJ English.
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Help them become a fluent British English speaker.
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Cheers guys and I'll see you all in the next lesson.
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Stay clumsy.
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Bye.
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Thank you.

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Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau B1 s’appuie sur la vidéo « I'm So Clumsy! ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : clumsy, lesson, tree. Cette vidéo contient 108 phrases et 1182 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 6:55. Le locuteur parle à un rythme naturel d’environ 171 mots par minute, proche d’une conversation courante. 83 % 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 :

MotPrononciationSens
clumsy adjectif/ˈklʌmzi/empoté, gauche
clumsiness nom/ˈklʌm.zi.nəs/maladresse, inélégance
wrist nom/ɹɪst/poignet
smash verbe/smæʃ/fracasser
relax verbe/ɹɪˈlæks/relâcher
endearing adjectif/ɪnˈdɪɹɪŋ/attendrissant
tablecloth nomnappe
impress verbe/ɪmˈpɹɛs/impressionner
wipe verbe/waɪp/essuyer
shout verbe/ʃaʊt/crier
teenager nom/ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/adolescent, adolescente
climb verbe/ˈklaɪ̯m/grimper, monter
embarrass verbe/ɪmˈbæɹəs/embarrasser, gêner
lunchtime nom/ˈlʌnt͡ʃtaɪm/heure du déjeuner
pronunciation nom/pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/prononciation

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

MotSens
knock out verbeassommer
end up verbese terminer, se finir
go down verbedescendre
pass away verbedécéder, s'éteindre
sit back verbese détendre

Des phrases à répéter

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

  • How are you all doing today?
  • Let's say I'm sat at a restaurant.
  • Red wine, that's my chosen alcoholic beverage.
  • It's unique and I embrace it.
  • Does this happen to you?

La grammaire de cette vidéo

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

StructureDans la vidéo
Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le faitwere broken · was broken · was knocked
Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenanthave ruined · have had · It's been
Propositions relatives who / which + proposition — une précision sur une personne ou une choseperson who has · teenager which is · person who never
Possibilité avec « might / may » might/may + verbe — quelque chose de possible mais pas certainmight smash · might fall

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 23 contractions et formes réduites, comme I'm, couldn't, I'd. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

  • Les sons « sh » et « zh »: smash /smæʃ/, shout /ʃaʊt/, pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, unconscious /ˌʌnˈkɑnʃəs/
  • Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, alcoholic /ˌæl.kəˈhɔ.lɪk/

Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :

  • /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: teenager /ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/, lunchtime /ˈlʌnt͡ʃtaɪm/, beverage /ˈbɛv(ə)ɹɪd͡ʒ/, cheers /t͡ʃɪəz/, chill /tʃɪl/
  • /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: wrist /ɹɪst/, relax /ɹɪˈlæks/, endearing /ɪnˈdɪɹɪŋ/, impress /ɪmˈpɹɛs/, embarrass /ɪmˈbæɹəs/
  • /ŋ/ final — sans prononcer de /g/ après: endearing /ɪnˈdɪɹɪŋ/, bang /ˈbæŋ/

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 clumsy, clumsiness, wrist.

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