Pratique du Shadowing: Intermediate Level Lesson 6 Practical English Drama - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

Création de la leçon...
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Practicing English.
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Hey Monica, have you ever lived or worked on a farm before?
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In fact, I have.
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Why do you ask?
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Well, in my class today, one of my students asked me if I ever milked a cow, fed chickens, or raised farm animals before.
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Why did your student ask you those questions?
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We were talking about growing up, and I told him I'd always lived in a small city.
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You know, I've never lived on the farm or in the country.
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So, Monica, can you tell me about some of your farm experiences?
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Sure.
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What do you want to know?
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Well, whose farm was it?
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Was it fun or boring?
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And did you have to do chores?
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Well, I could tell you a lot about farm life because I spent seven summers at my Uncle Henry's farm in Vermont.
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Okay, Monica, I really want to know, what was a typical day like on your uncle's farm?
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Well, on a farm, there's jobs to do for everyone.
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For example, the day begins early.
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Every morning my Aunt Joyce would say, Now Monica, you ought to be careful around those cows before they're milked.
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They can kick.
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Oh, that's nice.
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Getting kicked by a bull while you're trying to milk her.
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Mmm, Carrie, you don't milk bulls, they're male.
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Only female cows give milk.
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Uh, yeah, I should have known that.
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But I told you, I've never been on a farm before.
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So, go on, sorry, tell me more.
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Well, after milking the cows, we had a lot of other animals to feed.
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We had a lot of chickens to feed.
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Did you get to grade one of those, you know, what do you call them, plow things?
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Do you mean a tractor, Carrie?
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Yeah, that's it.
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Did you get to ride a tractor?
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Yes, I've driven a tractor before.
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Monica, I have to ask you.
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My class is all people who are born in the city.
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They have never been on a farm before.
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Will you come and tell some farm stories to my class?
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Farm stories?
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Yeah, can you tell them about milking bulls, cows, feeding chickens, stuff like that?
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Should I dress in overalls and carry a pitchfork that day?
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Do you have one?
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A pitchfork, I mean.
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Carrie, are you joking?
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Okay, how about overalls then?
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Are you for real?
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Yes, Monica, please.
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My class would love to hear your stories.
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Okay, what day do you want me to come?
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How about tomorrow?
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I will tell them this afternoon that we'll have a guest speaker, and then you can come and tell them about your farm days and picking wild fowls,
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skipping through meadows, and other farm-like things.
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You really can't believe I was farm girl once, can you?
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I do believe you, but you've never told us about this part of your life before.
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I think it's interesting.
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Well, hopefully your students will find my stories interesting too.
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Oh, don't worry.
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I will be there that day in case they're quiet.
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And I have a lot more questions myself.
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You do?
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Like what?
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Well, what's it like seeing baby animals being born?
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I saw our dog having puppies once and it was disgusting.
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Well, on a farm you see animals being born all the time.
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I've seen calves and lambs being born.
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You really ought to see that.
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It's amazing.
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No, thank you.
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Everything comes out looking all wet and slimy.
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That's really gross.
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Carrie, you'd make a terrible farm girl.
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I know.
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I'm more of a shopping and mall girl.
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Okay, so I'll come to your class and talk to them about my farm days when I was a girl.
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What will you be doing when I'm talking to them?
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Don't don't worry.
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I'll be listening to their questions and as I said, I might add a few of my own.
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Please, Carrie, I'll do this for you, but please don't ask any embarrassing questions in front of the class.
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I wouldn't do anything like that.
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Trust me, I'm an English teacher.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.

Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon

Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau B1 s’appuie sur la vidéo « Intermediate Level Lesson 6 Practical English Drama ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : farm, Monica, Carrie, cow, animals. Cette vidéo contient 82 phrases et 683 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 4:41. Le locuteur parle à un rythme régulier d’environ 146 mots par minute, confortable pour le shadowing. 82 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais ; le reste mérite d’être vu avant de commencer. 27 de ses 82 phrases sont des questions : un bon entraînement pour l’intonation interrogative et les réponses courtes.

Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo

Les 14 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :

MotPrononciationSens
cow nom/kaʊ/vache
tractor nom/ˈtɹæktɚ/tracteur
overalls nom/ˈoʊvəɹɔːlz/combinaison
pitchfork nom/ˈpɪt͡ʃˌfɔɹk/fourche
embarrass verbe/ɪmˈbæɹəs/embarrasser, gêner
plough nom/plaʊ/charrue, araire (swing-plough)
meadow nom/ˈmɛd.əʊ̯/pré, prairie
calf nom/kɑːf/veau, velle
bore verbe/boɹ/ennuyer, barber
puppy nom/ˈpʌpi/raton
lamb nom/ˈlæm/agneau, agnelle
skip verbe/skɪp/sautiller
disgusting adjectif/dɪsˈɡʌstɪŋ/dégoûtant, dégueulasse
mall nom/mɔːl/centre commercial, mail

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

MotPrononciationSens
come out verbe/ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/sortir
grow up verbegrandir

Des phrases à répéter

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

  • Why did your student ask you those questions?
  • What do you want to know?
  • Did you get to ride a tractor?
  • You really can't believe I was farm girl once, can you?
  • What will you be doing when I'm talking to them?

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 never lived · I've never been · I've driven
Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le faitare born · being born
Conseil avec « should » should + verbe — dire ce qu’il vaut mieux faireought to be · should have · Should I dress
Passé continu was/were + -ing — une action en cours à un moment du passéwere talking · was disgusting

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 25 contractions et formes réduites, comme don't, I've, I'll. 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 »: pitchfork /ˈpɪt͡ʃˌfɔɹk/, joking /ˈd͡ʒoʊkɪŋ/
  • /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: tractor /ˈtɹæktɚ/, overalls /ˈoʊvəɹɔːlz/, pitchfork /ˈpɪt͡ʃˌfɔɹk/, embarrass /ɪmˈbæɹəs/, bore /boɹ/
  • /ŋ/ final — sans prononcer de /g/ après: joking /ˈd͡ʒoʊkɪŋ/, disgusting /dɪsˈɡʌstɪŋ/

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 cow, tractor, overalls.

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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