Pratique du Shadowing: IELTS Speaking Part 2 | Describe a Problem You Had and How You Solved It | Band 7+ Sample Answer - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo
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Hey everyone!
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Welcome back to Marin English Lab.
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Here is something most IELTS candidates never realize about this topic.
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When the examiner says, describe a problem you had and how you solved it, they are not asking about the problem.
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They are asking about who you are under pressure.
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Because anyone can fix a problem.
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But only a band 7 candidate can tell the examiner what that problem revealed about them.
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Today I'll show you exactly how.
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Full model answer.
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Top vocabulary.
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Let's go.
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Here is the strategy most people miss entirely.
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They spend 90% of their answer describing the problem and the solution.
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But the examiner already knows you solved it.
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That is why they asked.
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What they want to hear is the moment your thinking shifted.
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The point where you stopped reacting and started reasoning.
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That cognitive turning point.
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When you move from panic to clarity.
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Is where band 7 language lives.
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Ready?
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The problem I want to describe happened during my final year of university, and in retrospect, it was one of the most instructive crises I have ever navigated.
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Three days before the submission deadline for my thesis, the external hard drive containing 18 months of research data simply stopped working.
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No warning.
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No error message.
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Just silence where there had once been everything.
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My initial response was entirely predictable, paralysis followed by panic.
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For approximately two hours, I sat in front of a black screen and did nothing useful whatsoever.
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I think part of me was hoping the situation would somehow resolve itself.
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But then something shifted.
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I made a deliberate decision to decompose the problem rather than react to it as a single overwhelming catastrophe.
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I asked myself, what do I actually still have?
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Printed drafts.
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Handwritten notes.
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Three months of emails with my supervisor containing key arguments and feedback.
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Fragments, but not nothing.
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I took the drive to a data recovery specialist that same afternoon.
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While they worked overnight, I systematically reconstructed what I could from memory and from those scattered sources.
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I did not sleep.
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But by morning, I had rebuilt approximately 60% of the lost content, and the recovery specialist retrieved the rest.
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I submitted the thesis on time.
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The grade, remarkably, was the highest I received that year.
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What that experience taught me was not about data backup, though I now back up obsessively.
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It taught me something far more transferable, that a crisis is most dangerous in the first two hours, when emotion overrides cognition.
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The moment you impose structure on chaos, even an imperfect structure, you recover your capacity to think.
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And thinking, it turns out, is always the solution.
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Why this answer works?
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For things made that answer exceptional.
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First, an unexpected opening, instructive crisis.
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Not a big problem.
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A crisis that taught something.
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The examiner's attention locks in immediately.
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Second, honest self-awareness.
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Admitting two hours of paralysis.
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That vulnerability makes the recovery feel earned, not formulaic.
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Third, academic register.
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Decompose the problem.
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Systematically reconstructed.
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Impose structure on chaos.
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These are not just vocabulary.
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They signal a mind that thinks precisely.
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And fourth, a closing idea that transcends the story.
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A crisis is most dangerous in the first two hours, when emotion overrides cognition.
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The examiner walks out still thinking about that.
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That is band seven.
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Three phrases that signal academic thinking to your examiner.
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1. Decompose the problem.
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When most people face a crisis, they see one enormous wall.
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They try to climb a hole and fail.
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To decompose a problem means to break it into its smallest components, to stop seeing the wall, and start seeing the individual bricks.
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It is the language of engineers, scientists, and strategic thinkers.
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And when you use it in an IELTS answer, the examiner hears someone who does not just solve problems, someone who thinks about how to think about problems.
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Say it like this.
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Rather than reacting to it as one catastrophe, I made a deliberate decision to decompose the problem into its manageable parts.
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2. Impose structure on chaos.
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This phrase does something most IELTS vocabulary cannot.
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It describes a mental action, not a physical one.
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Chaos is the state where everything feels beyond control.
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Imposing structure means deliberately creating order, not waiting for calm to arrive, but building it yourself.
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It also shows emotional intelligence, the recognition that structure is a tool for regulating anxiety, not just for organizing tasks.
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Use it to close a paragraph.
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The moment I imposed structure on the chaos, I recovered my capacity to think clearly.
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The examiner has never heard that sentence in an IELTS exam.
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They will remember it.
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3. Emotion overrides cognition.
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This is your band-aid closing phrase.
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It sounds academic because it is, but it describes something every human being has experienced.
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Cognition means rational thinking.
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When emotion overrides cognition, your feelings shut down your ability to reason.
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Every person in that exam room has felt this, but almost no one has the vocabulary to describe it so precisely.
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Close your answer with, A crisis is most dangerous in the first two hours, when emotion overrides cognition.
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The solution, always, is to start thinking.
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Two sentences.
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The examiner stops writing.
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Looks up.
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That is the moment you secure band 7.
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Five minutes.
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And now you have a problem-solving answer that sounds like a person who thinks, not just a person who coped.
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Here is your challenge.
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Comment below.
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What is one problem you solved this year?
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And what did it teach you about yourself?
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One sentence in English.
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I read every single comment, and I reply.
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Like this video if it changed how you approach IELTS speaking.
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Subscribe for a new video every single week.
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See you in the next one.
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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 « IELTS Speaking Part 2 ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : examiner, structure, answer, cognition, crisis. Cette vidéo contient 107 phrases et 948 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 6:17. Le locuteur parle à un rythme naturel d’environ 151 mots par minute, proche d’une conversation courante. Seuls 78 % 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 :
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
|---|---|---|
| examiner nom | /əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/ | examinateur, examinatrice |
| cognition nom | /kɑɡˈnɪʃ.ən/ | connaissance |
| decompose verbe | /ˌdiːkəmˈpəʊz/ | décomposer |
| override verbe | /oʊ.vɚˈɹaɪd/ | outrepasser |
| emotion nom | /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/ | émotion |
| vocabulary nom | /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/ | vocabulaire, lexique |
| react verbe | /ɹiːˈækt/ | réagir |
| instructive adjectif | /ɪnˈstɹʌktɪv/ | instructif |
| paralysis nom | /pəˈɹæləsəs/ | paralysie |
| systematically adverbe | /ˌsɪs.təˈmæt.ɪ.kli/ | systématiquement |
| catastrophe nom | /kəˈtæstɹəfi/ | catastrophe |
| deliberate adjectif | /dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət/ | délibéré |
| thesis nom | /ˈθisɪs/ | thèse |
| precisely adverbe | /pɹɪˈsaɪs.li/ | précisément |
| imperfect adjectif | /ɪmˈpɜː(ɹ)fɪkt/ | imparfait |
Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez
| Mot | Sens |
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| back up verbe | reculer |
| shut down verbe | éteindre |
| turn out verbe | se finir, se terminer |
Des phrases à répéter
Des phrases courtes et complètes de la vidéo, à réutiliser dans la conversation de tous les jours :
- Today I'll show you exactly how.
- I asked myself, what do I actually still have?
- What is one problem you solved this year?
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 | have ever navigated · has never heard · has experienced |
| Propositions relatives who / which + proposition — une précision sur une personne ou une chose | someone who does · person who thinks |
Prononciation à surveiller
- Les sons « th »: thesis /ˈθisɪs/, thinker /ˈθɪŋ.kɚ/
- Les sons « sh » et « zh »: cognition /kɑɡˈnɪʃ.ən/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, exceptional /ɪkˈsɛpʃənəl/, rational /ˈɹæʃ(ə)nəl/, submission /səbˈmɪʃən/
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: examiner /əɡˈzæmɪnɚ/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, paralysis /pəˈɹæləsəs/, systematically /ˌsɪs.təˈmæt.ɪ.kli/, catastrophe /kəˈtæstɹəfi/
Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :
- /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: override /oʊ.vɚˈɹaɪd/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/, react /ɹiːˈækt/, instructive /ɪnˈstɹʌktɪv/, paralysis /pəˈɹæləsəs/
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 examiner, cognition, decompose.
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.