Pratique du Shadowing: Testing the world's longest echo - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

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I'm inside one of the Inchendown oil tanks, an old oil storage facility near Inverness in Scotland.
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This tank is 237 metres long, and it's not meant for humans.
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When it was in use by the Royal Navy, all this colossal space would have been filled with fuel oil.
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With these oil tanks, the Royal Navy accidentally created the greatest reverberation chamber in the world.
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Flat surfaces enclosed by solid rock,
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and a chamber big enough that sound takes a whole second or more to go off the far wall and bounce back,
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but still narrow enough that you get lots of reverberation from all the close surfaces as well.
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The construction started in 1938 and it carried on right through the beginning of the war up to around about 1943.
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The Admiralty had decided that they required bomb -proof storage for their oil.
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So they set about building a number of oil tanks across Britain.
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And this, Incheon Down, is one of them.
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The construction required six tanks to be built.
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The entire complex could easily contain 100 ,000 tonnes of fuel oil.
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But one single Royal Navy battleship could drink 5 ,000 tonnes.
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So it could go very, very quickly.
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This is a truly amazing chamber of sound a cathedral of oil and a cathedral of science.
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So now I'm going to shut up for a bit.
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Preston here is going to fire a starting pistol, a very, very loud bang.
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On the screen is a visual display of that sound.
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Different frequencies will reverberate for different amounts of time, so you will see that and hear that.
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And as it gets quieter, we will turn up the level on the microphone, so it's easier for you to hear.
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Right, everyone ready?
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Thank you. so Thank
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you to the Bannerman group for letting us into the tunnels, to Alan, Alan and Preston for helping with everything here,
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to Matt Ray who is behind the camera and who has had some musical experiences over on his channel.
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Go for it. That is terrifying!
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Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon

Cette vidéo contient 26 phrases et 337 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 3:27. Le locuteur parle lentement, environ 98 mots par minute, ce qui laisse le temps d’imiter chaque son. 85 % 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

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

MotPrononciationSens
chamber nom/ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯mbɚ/chambre, pièce
cathedral nom/kəˈθiːdɹəl/cathédrale
narrow adjectif/ˈnæɹəʊ/étroit
frequency nom/ˈfɹiːkwənsi/fréquence
bang nom/ˈbæŋ/coup, détonation
tunnel nom/ˈtʌn(ə)l/tunnel
accidentally adverbe/ˌæk.sɪˈdɛnt(ə)li/accidentellement
bounce verbe/baʊns/rebondir
pistol nom/ˈpɪstəl/pistolet
metre nom/ˈmiːtəɹ/mètre
microphone nom/ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌfəʊn/microphone
reverberation nom/ɹiˈvɜː(ɹ)bəɹeɪʃən/contrecoup
battleship nom/ˈbætəlˌʃɪp/cuirassé
colossal adjectif/kəˈlɑsəl/colossal
reverberate verbe/ɹəˈvɜɹbəˌɹeɪt/réverbérer

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

MotSens
go off verbeexploser
turn up verbearriver, se pointer

Prononciation à surveiller

  • Les sons « sh » et « zh »: reverberation /ɹiˈvɜː(ɹ)bəɹeɪʃən/, battleship /ˈbætəlˌʃɪp/
  • Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: accidentally /ˌæk.sɪˈdɛnt(ə)li/, reverberation /ɹiˈvɜː(ɹ)bəɹeɪʃən/, reverberate /ɹəˈvɜɹbəˌɹeɪt/

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 chamber, cathedral, narrow.

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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