Pratique du Shadowing: Learn the language of secrets - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

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Hello and welcome to Real Easy English.
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In this podcast, we have real conversations in easy English to help you learn.
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I'm Beth.
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And I'm Georgie.
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You can find a video version of this podcast and a worksheet to help you learn all on our website, bbclearningenglish .com.
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Hi Georgie.
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Hello Beth.
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How is your week going?
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It's going well.
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It's quite a busy one, isn't it?
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It is.
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It's only Wednesday.
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Yeah.
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It feels like Friday.
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But today we're talking about secrets.
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Secrets.
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A secret is a piece of information that you don't tell other people.
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Beth, does that mean you're going to tell me all of your secrets?
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No. Not now.
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Maybe later.
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Ooh, okay.
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So Georgie, are you good at keeping secrets?
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No, I'm definitely not good at keeping secrets.
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I'm a bit of an open book, which means...
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the opposite of someone who is good at keeping secrets.
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You're very honest and share things, maybe too much.
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What about you?
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Okay.
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I I'm probably the same as you.
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I think I'm
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not good at keeping secrets but
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If it's a really important secret and I've been told "please don't tell anyone" then I won't tell anyone.
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Yes, so Beth, what is the biggest secret you've had to keep?
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Hmm.
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Ooh, um...
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I flew abroad. to surprise
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my boyfriend at the time his dad and we had to keep it a secret
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and we even called him in the morning on a video call and pretended we were at home and we were in a different country.
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Oh my gosh.
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So that was a Big secret.
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So it went well?
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Was he surprised?
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It did.
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He was very surprised.
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We were very pleased that we kept it a secret.
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We did well.
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Well done.
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Well done.
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I've had to keep a big secret
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Last year my friend told me that she was going to propose to her girlfriend
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but she told me I had to keep it a secret and it's really, it was really difficult because we have a group of friends
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and I really wanted to tell them but I couldn't and I managed to keep it a secret so
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I was very proud of myself.
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That's good, well done.
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That reminds me, I had a big secret too.
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My friend told me, don't tell anyone and don't tell your mum.
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And I told my mum by accident.
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Oh no, can you reveal the secret to us?
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Oh yeah, she was pregnant, but she's now had the baby.
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Okay.
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But she said, yeah, I'm pregnant, but it's really early.
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So please don't tell anyone.
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Don't even tell your mum.
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Okay.
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And then I spoke to my mum a few weeks later and said, "You don't know, she's pregnant !" And then I realised,
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oh no, I wasn't supposed to tell you.
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Oh, but that was kind of an accident.
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Oh, it was definitely an accident.
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Yeah.
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I felt really bad.
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Oh, well, now she's had the baby.
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It's all good.
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It's not a surprise anymore.
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Sorry.
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"Beth, do you think secrets are a good or a bad thing?" I think it really depends on the secret.
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There are good secrets.
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um like proposing or having a baby and then i guess a bad secret really is
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a lie
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if you have to lie then that's not good yeah i
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agree it's uh it's not yeah it's not good to lie um and i think that's
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a reason why I'm not very good at keeping secrets because I'm a really bad Liar.
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You can see it in my face if I'm holding in a secret.
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Yeah, I think sometimes you can look at someone's face and know what they're thinking.
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I'm definitely like that if I'm annoyed or angry or...
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something you can tell from my face.
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Well that's good because I'll always know that you're being honest and not keeping any secrets from me.
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Let's recap the vocabulary we heard during the conversation.
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We had a secret, which is a piece of information that you can't tell other people.
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And we also have the phrase keep a secret, which means to not share that piece of information.
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If someone is an open book, they don't have secrets and they're honest about their life.
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And if you lie, you say something that's not true.
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It's usually seen as negative, but sometimes you have to lie if you want to keep a secret.
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And we call someone who lies a lot a liar.
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And that's it for this episode of Real Easy English.
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Test what you've learned with the free worksheets on our website, bbclearningenglish .com.
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We'll be back next week with another conversation in Easy English.
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Goodbye.
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Bye.
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you

Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon

Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau A2 s’appuie sur la vidéo « Learn the language of secrets ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : secret, lie, keeping, Beth, mum. Cette vidéo contient 99 phrases et 792 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 5:28. Le locuteur parle à un rythme régulier d’environ 145 mots par minute, confortable pour le shadowing. 84 % 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

14 mots de la vidéo à retenir, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :

MotPrononciationSens
podcast nom/ˈpɑdˌkæst/podcast, balado
liar nom/ˈlaɪ.ɚ/menteur, menteuse
propose verbe/pɹəˈpəʊz/proposer
reveal verbe/ɹɪˈviːl/révéler
abroad adverbe/əˈbɹɔːd/à l'étranger
remind verbe/ɹəˈmaɪnd/rappeler à
pretend verbe/pɹəˈtɛnd/feindre, faire semblant
goodbye/ɡʊdˈbaɪ/bon vent, au revoir
phrase nom/ˈfɹeɪ̯z/expression
depend verbe/dɪˈpɛnd/dépendre
gosh/ɡɑːʃ/bon sang
vocabulary nom/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/vocabulaire, lexique
worksheet nomfeuille de travail
annoy verbe/əˈnoɪ̯/gêner, ennuyer

Des phrases à répéter

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

  • How is your week going?
  • It's quite a busy one, isn't it?
  • No, I'm definitely not good at keeping secrets.
  • I'm a bit of an open book, which means...
  • You're very honest and share things, maybe too much.

La grammaire de cette vidéo

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

StructureDans la vidéo
Propositions relatives who / which + proposition — une précision sur une personne ou une chosebook, which means · someone who is · secret, which is
Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenantI've been told · you've learned
Obligation : must / have to / need to dire qu’une chose est nécessairehad to keep · have to lie
Présent continu am/is/are + -ing — ce qui se passe en ce momentwe're talking · I'm holding · they're thinking

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 37 contractions et formes réduites, comme I'm, don't, you're. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :

  • /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: propose /pɹəˈpəʊz/, reveal /ɹɪˈviːl/, abroad /əˈbɹɔːd/, remind /ɹəˈmaɪnd/, pretend /pɹəˈtɛnd/

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 podcast, liar, propose.

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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