Pratique du Shadowing: READING EXPLORER 2 Unit 3A Was King Tut Murdered - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

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Unit 3.
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A was King Tut, murdered.
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A King Tutankhamen was still a teenager when he died around 1322 BC.
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He ruled Egypt for ten years, the last king of a powerful family that had ruled the country for centuries.
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After his death, the body of King Tut, as Tutankhamen is usually known today, was placed in a gold-filled tomb.
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There he lay forgotten until the tomb's discovery in 1922.
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Although we know a lot about his life, the reason for King Tut's death at such a young age has remained a mystery, with murder the most extreme possibility.
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Now improved X-ray technology 1 and DNA 2 testing are offering new clues into the life and death of the boy king.
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When British archaeologist Howard Carter opened King Tut's tomb, it was full of gold and other amazing items.
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Carter spent months carefully recording the treasures.
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When he and his team attempted to remove King Tut's mummy, they found that it had become attached to its solid gold coffin.
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Unfortunately, they caused a great deal of damage to the mummy while removing it.
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C. In 1968, archaeologists conducted an examination of King Tut's mummy using simple X-ray technology.
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Three important discoveries led to various theories about his death.
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The X-rays showed that bones in Tut's chest were missing.
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Some guessed the damage was caused by a war injury or an accident.
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There was a small hole in the back of the skull and pieces of bone inside it, causing many to believe that Tut was killed by a blow to the back of the head.
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Was he murdered by people wanting to take control of Egypt?
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A serious fracture was discovered on Tut's left leg.
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Tut had been hurt a few hours before his death.
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Could an infection from the injury have killed Tut?
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In 2005, scientists under the direction of Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass used new and more effective x-ray technology to study the mummy.
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They discovered that the damage to Tut's chest was caused by Howard Carter,
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and the hole in Tut's skull was made when embalmers were preparing the body for burial.
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While this ruled out one theory, that of murder, it still doesn't tell us exactly how he died.
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Then in 2008, Hawass and his team analysed Toot's DNA.
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They found that he suffered from flat feet as well as a bone disease.
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This would have made it difficult for him to walk.
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When they analysed the DNA of the mummies in other tombs nearby, they made some shocking discoveries.
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They found Tut's father and mother, who had similar DNA, were actually brother and sister.
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The DNA they passed on to Tut may have left him highly vulnerable to disease, such as malaria.
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5. Did an infection that started in his fractured leg, added to the bone disease, cause his death?
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No one knows for sure.
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But Hawass and his team hope they will someday have an answer to this age-old mystery.

Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon

Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau B2 s’appuie sur la vidéo « READING EXPLORER 2 Unit 3A Was King Tut Murdered ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : king, Tut, Dna, mummy, bone. Cette vidéo contient 35 phrases et 494 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 3:26. Le locuteur parle à un rythme régulier d’environ 144 mots par minute, confortable pour le shadowing. 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 12 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :

MotPrononciationSens
mummy nom/ˈmʌm.i/momie
archaeologist nom/ˌɑɹ.kiˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒɪst/archéologue, archéologiste
tomb nom/tum/tombeau, tombe
fracture nom/ˈfɹæk.t͡ʃʰəː/fracture
malaria nom/məˈlɛəɹi.ə/paludisme, malaria
attach verbe/əˈtæt͡ʃ/attacher
coffin nom/ˈkɔfɪn/cercueil
burial nom/ˈbɛɹi.əl/enterrement, inhumation
someday adverbeun jour
teenager nom/ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/adolescent, adolescente
treasure nom/ˈtɹɛʒəɹ/trésor
clue nom/kluː/indice

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

MotSens
rule out verbebarrer, biffer

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 faitis usually known · was caused · was killed
Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenanthas remained · have killed

Prononciation à surveiller

  • Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: archaeologist /ˌɑɹ.kiˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒɪst/, malaria /məˈlɛəɹi.ə/

Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :

  • /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: archaeologist /ˌɑɹ.kiˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒɪst/, fracture /ˈfɹæk.t͡ʃʰəː/, attach /əˈtæt͡ʃ/, teenager /ˈtiːnˌeɪ̯d͡ʒə/
  • /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: archaeologist /ˌɑɹ.kiˈɑ.lə.d͡ʒɪst/, fracture /ˈfɹæk.t͡ʃʰəː/, malaria /məˈlɛəɹi.ə/, burial /ˈbɛɹi.əl/, treasure /ˈtɹɛʒəɹ/

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 mummy, archaeologist, tomb.

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