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Today you're coming with me around the city so
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that you can learn 20 everyday really useful English expressions like this
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and this helps us remember the expression make a splash
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and idioms like this this big fella behind me leads us to our next expression the lion's share and even this
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so you would probably say he's naked or you could use this next expression he's starkers hi i'm steve
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now this city is unusual
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because it's got two cathedrals this is what's commonly known as the old one
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and this one which as you can see is a lot more modern
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and you could say these two cathedrals are like chalk and cheese, which is our next expression.
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Chalk and cheese.
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This is used when two things are very different, like this.
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One of my kids likes riding their bike, but the other prefers reading.
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They're like chalk and cheese.
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If you look behind me, you can see lots of rope on this boat,
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which leads us nicely to our next expression, money but old rope.
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This means money that's easy to come by.
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You can get it without much effort.
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Use it like this.
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She's a television reviewer.
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Her job is money for old rope.
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Behind me is the only natural spring in the whole of this city.
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And it leads into this tiny little pond.
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And this helps us remember the expression, make a splash.
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To make a splash means to attract attention.
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Do something that makes you stand out.
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He really made a splash at the party by wearing a fancy jacket.
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Now behind me is grass.
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And that takes us to our next expression.
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The other man's grass is always greener.
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This means that other people always seem to be in a better situation than you are.
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It's used like this.
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He said that he wanted to change his job, but I warned him that the other man's grass is always greener.
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These stones that I'm walking on are called cobbles, and that should help us with the phrase cobble together.
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This means to make or build something quickly, using whatever you already have.
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Chews like this.
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They cobbled together a meal from what was already in the fridge.
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And now I'm in the underground to bring you the next English expression. On the right track.
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To be on the right track means to be acting or thinking in a way that's likely to lead to success.
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She checked her notes again and realised she was on the right track for the test.
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Now we're inside the railway station, and behind me you can see a train.
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This leads us to our next expression, lose your train of thought.
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This means to forget what you were talking about, or thinking, because of an interruption.
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The loud noise made me lose my train of thought.
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Now this used to be a small prison and to say that someone's actually in prison, we use the expression behind bars.
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This means to be in prison.
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Use it like this.
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The gang of car thieves are all behind bars.
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Behind me are headstones.
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These belong on a grave.
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And that gives us our next English expression, pushing up daisies.
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This English expression means to be dead and buried.
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He was warned that he'll be pushing up daisies if he keeps driving so fast.
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As we look around the city, you can see that there's one building that's a lot taller than all the others.
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It's that tower behind me.
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So we could use the expression, it's head and shoulders above the rest.
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This means to be much bigger or better than everyone or everything else.
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She is head and shoulders above the rest of the applicants for the job.
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This statue behind me is really famous in this city and as you can see he's not wearing any clothes at all.
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So you would probably say he's naked or you could use this next expression, he's Stalkers.
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Stalkers means to be completely naked.
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Use it like this.
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He came out of the bathroom stalkers because he forgot to take his towel.
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In the UK, we usually don't say call a cab, we say hail a cab.
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Use it like this.
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In English we say we're going to hail a cab, basically it means to wave your hand to stop a taxi in the street.
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They stepped out into the rain and put their hand up to hail a cab.
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I've been walking for over an hour now making this video.
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So I could say I was tired, or I could use the expression, I'm pooped.
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If you're pooped, you're extremely tired or exhausted.
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So you might say...
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After working all day, I was far too pooped to go out for dinner.
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Now this statue is a member of the royal family riding a horse.
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And that leads us to our next expression.
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Straight from the horse's mouth.
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This expression means to get information directly from the person who knows all about it.
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She knew the shop was closing because she heard it straight from the horse's mouth when the owner told her.
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This big fella behind me leads us to our next expression.
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The lion's share.
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The lion's share means the largest portion or the majority of something.
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She was like this.
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He spent the lion's share of his Saturday morning tidying the house before his guests arrived.
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and the next expression is it's fishy
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if something is fishy it means it's suspicious
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or you don't trust it something about his sudden decision to
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sell the business felt fishy the coffee shop behind me is one of my favorites
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because it gives all its profits to homeless people However, it's quite tricky to find.
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And that's because it's off the beaten track.
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Off the beaten track means located far away from busy roads or popular places where most people go.
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Often it's quite hard to find.
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We found a brilliant little seafood place off the beaten track.
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Now we're in one of the main shopping streets, which lets us use our next expression, to shop around, which is what these people are doing.
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This means to compare prices and quality at different places before you buy it.
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It's worth shopping around instead of buying the first thing, you see.
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This city has two football teams.
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Liverpool, who play in red and Everton, who play in blue.
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That reminds me of two really useful English phrases.
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out of the blue.
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Out of the blue means unexpectedly or without any warning.
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It was out of the blue when he asked her to marry him. And into the red.
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This means to spend more money than you really have.
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Paying for the roof to be fixed pushed their bank account into the red.
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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 « Sound More British · Everyday Expressions explained in the City ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : expression, English, lead, track. Cette vidéo contient 104 phrases et 1167 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 10:16. Le locuteur parle à un rythme régulier d’environ 114 mots par minute, confortable pour le shadowing. 88 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais, le vocabulaire est donc facile à suivre.
Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo
Les 15 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
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| splash verbe | /splæʃ/ | asperger, éclabousser |
| stalker nom | /ˈstɔːkə(ɹ)/ | traqueur, traqueuse |
| poop nom | /ˈpuːp/ | caca, popo |
| chalk nom | /t͡ʃɔk/ | craie |
| hail nom | /heɪl/ | grêle, grêlons |
| rope nom | /ɹoʊp/ | corde |
| daisy nom | /ˈdeɪ.zi/ | pâquerette, marguerite |
| cathedral nom | /kəˈθiːdɹəl/ | cathédrale |
| warn verbe | /woɹn/ | avertir, alerter |
| statue nom | /ˈstæt͡ʃu/ | statue |
| phrase nom | /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/ | expression |
| interruption nom | /ˌɪntəˈɹʌpʃən/ | interruption |
| reviewer nom | relecteur, réviseur | |
| starkers adjectif | /ˈstɑɹkɚz/ | à poil |
| tidy adjectif | /ˈtaɪ.di/ | ordonné, net |
Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez
| Mot | Sens |
|---|---|
| look around verbe | regarder autour de soi |
La grammaire de cette vidéo
Les structures que le locuteur utilise le plus, avec les mots exacts de la vidéo :
| Structure | Dans la vidéo |
|---|---|
| Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le fait | are called · was warned · be fixed |
| Propositions relatives who / which + proposition — une précision sur une personne ou une chose | cheese, which is · person who knows · around, which is |
| Comparatifs -er than / more … than — comparer deux éléments | taller than · better than · more money than |
| Passé continu was/were + -ing — une action en cours à un moment du passé | were talking · was closing |
Prononciation à surveiller
Le locuteur utilise 16 contractions et formes réduites, comme I'm, we're, you're. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.
- Les sons « th »: cathedral /kəˈθiːdɹəl/, thief /ˈθiːf/, cloth /klɒθ/
- Les sons « sh » et « zh »: splash /splæʃ/, interruption /ˌɪntəˈɹʌpʃən/, suspicious /səˈspɪʃ.əs/
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: interruption /ˌɪntəˈɹʌpʃən/, unexpectedly /ʌnɪkˈspɛktɪdli/
Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :
- /h/ — il se souffle, il n’est pas muet: hail /heɪl/, headstone /ˈhɛdstoʊn/
- /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: chalk /t͡ʃɔk/, statue /ˈstæt͡ʃu/, chew /tʃuː/, jacket /ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/
- /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: stalker /ˈstɔːkə(ɹ)/, rope /ɹoʊp/, cathedral /kəˈθiːdɹəl/, warn /woɹn/, phrase /ˈfɹeɪ̯z/
Comment s’entraîner avec cette vidéo
- Écoutez la vidéo en entier une fois sans parler et notez les mots que vous ne connaissez pas.
- Répétez phrase par phrase à vitesse normale, en reprenant chacune jusqu’à ce que votre rythme corresponde à celui du locuteur.
- Enregistrez-vous et comparez avec l’original, en faisant attention à des mots comme splash, stalker, poop.
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.