Pratique du Shadowing: Simplified Speech #186 – Christmas 2023 - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo
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Hello there, everyone.
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My name's Andrew.
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And I'm Cassie.
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And this is the Q -Lips English Podcast.
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This is Simplified Speech, the Q -Lips series, which features clear, natural, and easy to understand English conversations about interesting topics.
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And today I am joined by my co -host, Cassie.
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Hey Cassie, how's it going?
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Hey Andrew and hey listeners.
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I'm doing super well and I hope you guys are too.
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Cassie, what is our topic of conversation for today?
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Well, the holidays are coming up so today's topic is Christmas 2023.
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Yeah, so we'll get into our conversation all about Christmas and how we're planning to celebrate this year and Cassie,
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I'm very curious to hear about how you're going to celebrate Christmas in Thailand in a hot place, but we'll save that for just a moment because before we start,
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guys, I want to let you know that there is a study guide
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and interactive transcript that is available for this episode if you are a Q -Lips member.
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And in fact, we make study guides and transcripts for all of our episodes,
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that you spend with QLips and to help you in your English learning journey.
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So to sign up and become a QLips member, just visit our website qlips .com.
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Now at the start of the show, we'd also like to give a shout out to one of our listeners who is tuning in from Canada, it looks like.
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Cassie, my home country.
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And this listener has the username plantlover406.
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Okay, perfect.
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And this is a very cute comment.
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Cassie, would you do us the honors and read it for us?
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Sure.
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Plant Lover 406 says, Hi, Q -Lips.
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My mom subscribed to the podcast and the rest is history.
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I love Andrew's stories, Cassie's attitude, Anna's wisdom, and Suzanne's accents.
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Thank you for the amazing content.
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Even though I don't have an issue with my English level, I still tune in to find out about the lives of the hosts.
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It is a lifesaver in this stressful world of a nine -year -old keep up the good work omg
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that is so cute well plant lover 406 thank you
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so much for that comment and cassie i wonder
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if plant lover likes your attitude because it's cool or bad
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or good i wonder what kind of attitude you have yeah i'm bad to the bone such a bad attitude dude.
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No, I know what Plant Lover is trying to communicate there.
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And yeah, so that is awesome.
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I love it, actually, when people listen to the podcast because they find it interesting or entertaining.
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Of course, we're here first and foremost to teach English and to provide amazing educational English lessons.
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But I also feel very pleased when people like it because it's entertaining.
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And I think that is what Plant Lover was trying to tell us.
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So thank you so much again for the awesome review and the five -star rating on Apple Podcasts.
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And thanks to everybody out there who is supporting what we do at Q -Lips by rating
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and reviewing us on your favorite podcast app.
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Please keep it up.
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And with that said, Cassie, why don't we transition into our main topic of conversation for today,
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which is Christmas 2023.
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And I know you guys can't see it because you are listening right now, but Cassie and I are communicating with each other through video call.
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Of course, I'm in Korea and Cassie is in Thailand.
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And I changed the background of my video call to this wonderful Christmas background.
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There's a huge Christmas tree and a fireplace roaring in the background.
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So I feel very Christmassy right now, Cassie, but I don't really see any Christmas decorations in your background.
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No, but yours is very festive.
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I feel so cozy right now.
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So maybe we could start there.
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We could start by talking about decorations.
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In general, Cassie, are you someone who tries to get into the Christmas spirit by decorating your house with a Christmas tree
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or Christmas lights or decorations, anything like that?
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Honestly, no, but my mother is a huge Christmas person.
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Her three favorite things in the whole world are Christmas, Disney, and the beach.
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So when those three things are coming up in her life, she just goes all out.
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She has a huge tree, a train, a tree inside and outside, fireplace roaring every night.
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It's like Christmas threw up around our house.
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I wonder if your mom can combine two of her passions then, Christmas and Disney.
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I'm sure she has like a lot of Disney Christmas ornaments on the tree.
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Is that the case?
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She does.
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She used to have a shelf in our house specifically full of these limited edition priceless Disney ornaments as well.
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But Unfortunately, there was one year where the shelf broke and many of them smashed.
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And I'm sure a little piece of my mom's heart also died with those ornaments.
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I think I remember you telling me that story once before on a different Simplified Speech episode. So sad.
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So then why hasn't that carried on to you?
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Why aren't you following in your mom's footsteps and going all out with decorating your house for Christmas?
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I think it's because I'm a bit of a nomad, Andrew.
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I have never worked at the same job for more than two years, and I've never lived in the same house for more than two years.
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So because of that, I just don't like having a lot of stuff
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because then I have to bring it to the next place.
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Yeah, yeah, I get that.
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I'm in a similar situation to you, Cassie.
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I grew up with parents who went all out at Christmas and they still decorate the house.
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You know, I remember putting up Christmas lights outside with my dad on the roof and we had a big Christmas tree.
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Well, when I was maybe in middle school or high school, we switched to an artificial Christmas tree.
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But when I was a real little kid, we used to go and get a real tree.
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We wouldn't chop a tree down in the forest or anything like that.
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We weren't that extreme.
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But there would be Christmas tree lots in the supermarket parking lot
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and you could go and buy a real Christmas tree
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and they would be like fresh cut from the forest or from a tree farm.
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I don't know exactly where they came from, but you could pick up a tree
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and it would always be a bit of a battle to take the tree home
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because you've got this like big two meter long tree, right?
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You'd have to attach it to the roof of your car
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or put it in the back of your truck or something
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and then you'd get it home and the tree would be a real fresh tree
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and there'd be like sap coming out of it.
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And sap is that really sticky liquid that comes out of a tree
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if you perforate the surface of the tree trunk, right?
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If you cut a hole in the tree trunk.
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So it'd be really sticky and sappy and wet.
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And so what we would have to do is dry the tree out for a few days in the garage.
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We'd like put the tree up and just let it dry out a little bit.
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We never did that.
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We had a real tree too.
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That's smart.
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You had a real tree too?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And then ironically, once you would put the tree up in your house, you would have to put the base of the tree in water so that it wouldn't turn brown.
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Yep.
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You dry it out and then rehydrate.
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But listeners, as you can tell, that's a ton of work.
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And I don't blame my parents at all for switching over to an artificial tree.
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So there's been many years now that we've just had a fake Christmas tree.
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But yeah, the Christmas tree goes up, the ornaments come out, the lights go up, and my parents go all out.
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But yeah, Cassie, I'm the same as you.
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You know, I like Christmas.
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I'm not like a huge Christmas guy until maybe the week before.
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I like Christmas, but I think we celebrate it for too long.
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It's not a day of Christmas.
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It's a month or a month and a half of Christmas.
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Yeah, it's too long in my opinion.
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So I tried to save decorating and stuff until maybe, you know, the 20th, 19th, 20th, and then, you know,
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take it down on the 26th or 27th and move on to the new year.
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That works for me.
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That's my Christmas season.
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Maybe you'll get a few more decorations now that you have your own place.
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Yeah, that is exactly what I wanted to talk about, Cassie, because now I finally feel like I'm in a position where I could actually buy a Christmas tree
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and it wouldn't be a waste because I know I'm not going to move.
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Well, hopefully not going to move.
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You never can say never, right?
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But I feel like I'm in a permanent place now.
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So my wife and I were debating about buying a full -sized Christmas tree for our home this year.
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But then we saw how expensive they are and we decided, no, we'll just stick with the little mini Christmas tree.
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It's probably 25 centimeter tall mini Christmas tree that we've been using the last couple of years.
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I think we'll stick with that.
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Easier to decorate, easier to put up, easier to put into storage.
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It's a win, win, win.
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Exactly.
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But we did want to make our house look more Christmassy.
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So we bought a Christmas wreath and we hung it on our front door.
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and actually it's been a bit of a battle trying to hang the wreath
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because our front door is a metal front door it looks like wood
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but it's made out of metal but it's not magnetic
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so at first I thought oh this will just be easy
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we can hang like a magnetic hook on the front door
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and hang the wreath but that doesn't work
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so then my wife bought these like hooks
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that have a little sticky pad on the back and she stuck that on there.
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And then the weather went from being really warm one day to really cold the next day.
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And I guess the sticky pad didn't like that because we woke up and the wreath was on the ground. So sad.
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So now we've been trying some other methods.
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We tried like gluing the hook to the front door and also the wreath fell down again.
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So we're trying our best to have like a Christmassy vibe for our front entrance to the house.
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But yeah, so far, no luck
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but I think we just need to use maybe some super glue or something and just attach it really seriously.
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You'll never get the wreath off again.
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Yeah, it might be Christmas, not just for one week at our house, but for 365 days.
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I'm not sure.
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Exactly.
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And we also bought a little step ladder and when the step ladder arrives, we just bought it online.
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When the step ladder arrives, then I'm going to get some Christmas lights and I'm going to go up onto the roof and hang some Christmas lights, which I think will be really cool.
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Because although Korea is a country where Christmas is celebrated, and just going around Seoul these days, you can see lots of Christmas decorations,
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many Christmas trees, lots of stores and cafes are all decked out.
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There's Christmas music playing in cafes and stores.
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But one thing that you don't see is people hanging Christmas lights to decorate the exterior of their houses.
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So now that I have a house here, that's what I'm going to do.
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I'm going to put some Christmas lights outside, and I think I'll be the only house, not even on our streets, but the whole neighborhood.
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You can light up your neighborhood.
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Yeah, that'll be great.
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Exactly.
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Yeah, so I'm excited for that.
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Cassie, what is your plan for Christmas Day then?
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How are you going to celebrate?
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and does it feel more difficult for you to get into the christmas mood
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when you're in a place like i imagine it's not an official holiday in thailand is that true
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or tell us a little bit about spending christmas in thailand it's true it's not an official holiday
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but there are so many expats living in thailand especially from europe and the u .s like more western cultures
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So you definitely see a lot of decorations on the streets or in the big shopping malls in Bangkok.
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So it's still there, but even though it's not like an officially celebrated holiday,
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you can still see it around with like the tourists that are there, the expats that are there, and the stores that want to make money from Christmas shopping.
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yeah oh they have christmas markets too where you could buy some gifts
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and then also our school is an american school
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so high school not so much
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but the elementary school they really go hard on the christmas festivities leading up to winter break that's awesome
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and do you have any special plans for how you're going
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to celebrate the day honestly we're kind of skipping christmas this year my cousins
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and my aunt and uncle from Sweden are coming to visit for three weeks.
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Yeah, and I think on Christmas Day, we're going to be in the middle of Kauyai National Park outside of Bangkok a few hours.
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And I think we're going on some sort of jungle tour.
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So not your typical Christmas, but we'll be having fun together.
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Yeah, that's awesome.
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As for me, my wife and I don't really have anything special planned.
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We'll probably just have a pretty laid back Christmas.
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I don't think we'll really do anything out of the ordinary, to be honest.
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But the one thing that we will do is we're going to go see the Nutcracker Ballet.
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My wife bought tickets to that.
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That's really cool.
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Yeah.
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So I'm not sure if that is on the 23rd, the 24th, or the 25th.
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I know it's sometime around Christmas.
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But yeah, right around Christmas Day, we're going to go and see the Nutcracker and then we'll probably go out for like a nice dinner afterwards.
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You know, Christmas Eve in Korea is a big date day.
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It's like a day to hang out with your girlfriend or boyfriend or in my case, my wife.
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And we'll go out and just, yeah, have a nice dinner on that day.
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And I think that'll probably be it for Christmas for this
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year for us you should get some of those delicious scones from
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that shop near your old place those were so good
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yeah listeners last time
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that cassie was in korea we went to this amazing scone
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shop it's like a bakery they bake their own scones
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and it's really good
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so cassie i think that's a wonderful idea i should pick
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up some scones then i can wake up on christmas morning
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and just have a nice cup of coffee and a scone and just enjoy my Christmas that way.
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I love it.
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Well, everyone, I think we will end this episode here.
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So Merry Christmas, everyone, and we'll talk to you next time.
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Goodbye.
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See ya.
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Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon
Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau B1 s’appuie sur la vidéo « Simplified Speech – Christmas 2023 ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : christmas, tree, cassie, Lips. Cette vidéo contient 233 phrases et 2842 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 16:55. Le locuteur parle à un rythme naturel d’environ 168 mots par minute, proche d’une conversation courante. 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
Les 15 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
|---|---|---|
| decorate verbe | /ˈdɛkəɹeɪt/ | décorer, orner |
| wreath nom | /ɹiθ/ | couronne |
| decoration nom | /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/ | décoration |
| scone nom | /skoʊ̯n/ | scone |
| listener nom | /ˈlɪs(ə)nɚ/ | auditeur, auditrice |
| lover nom | /ˈlʌvɚ/ | amoureux, amoureuse |
| ornament nom | /ˈɔɹnəmənt/ | ornement |
| sticky adjectif | /ˈstɪki/ | collant, gluant |
| podcast nom | /ˈpɑdˌkæst/ | podcast, balado |
| ladder nom | /ˈlæd.ɚ/ | échelle |
| dashboard nom | /ˈdæʃˌboɹd/ | tableau de bord |
| fireplace nom | /ˈfaɪɹpleɪs/ | âtre, foyer |
| transcript nom | /ˈtɹæn.skɹɪpt/ | transcription |
| roar verbe | /ˈɹoɹ/ | rugir, hurler |
| attach verbe | /əˈtæt͡ʃ/ | attacher |
Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
|---|---|---|
| go up verbe | monter, s'élever | |
| put up verbe | placer | |
| come out verbe | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | sortir |
| come up verbe | se montrer, sortir du bois | |
| dry out verbe | dessécher | |
| fall down verbe | /fɔl ˈdaʊn/ | tomber |
| go out verbe | sortir | |
| keep up verbe | maintenir, conserver |
Des phrases à répéter
Des phrases courtes et complètes de la vidéo, à réutiliser dans la conversation de tous les jours :
- Cassie, what is our topic of conversation for today?
- Cassie, would you do us the honors and read it for us?
- So then why hasn't that carried on to you?
- You had a real tree too?
- How are you going to celebrate?
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 continu have/has been + -ing — une action commencée avant et toujours en cours | we've been using · we've been trying |
| « Used to » used to + verbe — une habitude ou un état passé qui n’est plus vrai | used to have · used to go |
| Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenant | have never worked · there's been · it's been |
| Propositions relatives who / which + proposition — une précision sur une personne ou une chose | someone who tries · community, which is · friends who are |
Prononciation à surveiller
Le locuteur utilise 82 contractions et formes réduites, comme I'm, don't, we'll. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.
- Les sons « sh » et « zh »: decoration /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/, dashboard /ˈdæʃˌboɹd/, shelf /ʃɛlf/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, shout /ʃaʊt/
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: decoration /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/, communicate /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪt/, artificial /ˌɑː.tɪˈfɪʃ.əl/, festivity /fɛˈstɪvəti/, ironically /aɪˈɹɑnɪkli/
Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :
- /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: attach /əˈtæt͡ʃ/, chop /t͡ʃɑp/, jungle /ˈd͡ʒʌŋ.ɡ(ə)l/
- /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: decorate /ˈdɛkəɹeɪt/, wreath /ɹiθ/, decoration /ˌdɛkəˈɹeɪʃən/, ornament /ˈɔɹnəmənt/, dashboard /ˈdæʃˌboɹd/
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 decorate, wreath, decoration.
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.