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One of the greatest illusions in life is continuity.
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66 million years ago, the continuity of the dinosaurs had been going on for around 165 million years already,
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and it didn't seem this would change any time soon.
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The world was warm and pleasant, and most of the land was covered with lush forests and an incredible diversity of trees,
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flowers, ferns, and trillions of critters.
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Dinosaurs were ubiquitous and had diversified into hundreds of species of all shapes and sizes.
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Titanotaurs, large gentle giants, shared the world with famous beasts like Tyrannosaurus rex or Edmontosaurus.
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Pectinodon hunted in the undergrowth, while Edmontosaurus wandered coastlines and swamps.
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An ancient paradise, a world of plenty, full of life.
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66 million years ago, maybe on a Tuesday afternoon, life was the same as it had been the day before, or a thousand years before,
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or pretty much a million years before.
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Things were good for our feathered dinosaur buddies until a tiny, tiny detail in the sky changed.
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If there were dinosaurs watching the stars, one night they may have noticed the appearance of a new star,
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a tiny dot that for many weeks slowly became bigger and brighter.
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Until one fateful day, it looked like another small moon in the night sky.
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Then it faded from sight as it dipped into Earth's shadow.
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For a few more hours, the illusion of continuity was upheld.
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Until it was not anymore.
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In the morning, the object suddenly appears again.
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Now, almost as large as the sun in the sky and growing every moment, heading for the coast near the Yucatan Peninsula.
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It takes the asteroid only seconds to pass through the thin layer between space and the ground to make contact.
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as it enters the atmosphere at almost 60 times the speed of sound.
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Let's stop time.
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Here, we see the unnamed asteroid about to commit specieside.
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Larger than Mount Everest, it reaches from the ocean high into the atmosphere, higher than passenger planes would fly millions of years later.
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At this moment, the world was one way.
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In a fraction of a second, it would be fundamentally different.
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Let's make the transition.
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As the asteroid hits the shallow ocean and the bedrock below,
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the energy of billions of nuclear weapons is released all at once as the asteroid vaporizes.
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A flash of light illuminates the sky as an eerie bright white sphere grows over the Gulf of Mexico.
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Bedrock melts into seething hot plasma at tens of thousands of degrees Celsius.
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The thermal radiation from the explosion travels at the speed of light
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and immediately burns everything within a radius of about 1,500 kilometers, while the energy from the impact pushes so hard against Earth's crust
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that it loses all strength and flows away from the impact site like a liquid,
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creating a hole 25 kilometers deep and 100 kilometers wide.
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The ocean is pushed back for hundreds of kilometers, like when a kid jumps into a puddle.
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As the crust bounces back, melted and flowing crust forms a temporary mountain stretching 10 kilometers into the sky.
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An incredible amount of material is blasted into the higher atmosphere, or even out into space, as much as 60 times the original mass of the asteroid.
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The violence of the strike is felt everywhere on Earth within minutes.
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A magnitude 11 earthquake may be the most powerful quake any living thing has ever witnessed in billions of years.
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It is so insanely strong that in India it might have shaken gigantic lava fields
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and causes volcanic eruptions that would last for 30,000 years and cover half of the Indian subcontinent with lava.
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Even on the side of Earth opposite the impact, the ground still moved by several meters.
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Nobody would sleep through this day.
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The gigantic explosion crashes against the atmosphere with unprecedented violence
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and causes a shockwave that reaches speeds of more than 1,000 km per hour near the site of impact,
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similar to the hyper-hurricanes on gas giants like Neptune.
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In middle America, basically any soil, vegetation or animal is just shredded into pieces and catapulted thousands of kilometers away.
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Now, the previously displaced oceans return.
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As the temporary mountain at the site of impact collapses, a ring of tsunamis as high as one kilometer, enough to cover all skyscrapers humans would ever build, heads in all directions.
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As they crash into the coasts of the continents surrounding the impact, they will drown thousands of kilometers of coastline of coastline.
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Fifteen hours later, some of the waves
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that get refracted around South America will still tower as much as 100 meters into the sky.
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But we still haven't talked about the worst thing yet.
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A lot of the debris yeeted into space will orbit Earth for thousands of years.
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Some may hit the Moon or even Mars.
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But most of it comes right back.
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When things fall through the atmosphere at such speeds, they get very hot.
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As in hundreds of degrees And this happens to millions of tons of material everywhere.
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This rapidly heats up the atmosphere to insane temperatures.
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We don't know exactly how hot it got or how long this heat shock lasted, but there are two ideas here.
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Either the air was heated to hundreds of degrees for a few minutes, or to thousands of degrees for around one minute.
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In any case, the air became as hot as the inside of an industrial oven.
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How bad the global effects of this were is contested, but if enough heat reached the surface,
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a lot of plants and animals would have died very quickly if they couldn't bury themselves or escape into caves.
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The heat, together with raining debris, also may have ignited material on forest floors and sparked wildfires, as the Earth rotated under the searing hot glue.
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In a few hours, massive wildfires were probably burning around the globe.
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Some of them may have lasted for months and turned Earth into a horrifying, hot, hellish version of itself.
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As the day of the impact draws to an end, many of the dinosaurs are already dead, but the worst is still to come.
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The gigantic plume of vaporized material reaches the upper atmosphere and spreads around the whole globe.
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Together with the soot from the burning planet and the aerosols generated at impact, the planet sinks into a deep darkness,
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with only the remaining raging fires illuminating the scenery.
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Whatever plants survive the firestorms will now be starved for sunlight as global photosynthesis is temporarily shut down.
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Within days, temperatures crash as much as 25 degrees Celsius.
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The oceans were especially hard hit.
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The lack of sunlight killed over 90% of plankton, which formed the basis of the food web of marine life.
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Ultimately, this would kill off the large marine reptiles and ammonites that used to dominate the seas.
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The biosphere that survivors now find themselves in is like an alien landscape.
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Ash, debris and the burned remains of the formerly lush and blooming life cover the ground.
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The sky is dark and it's cold and fresh food is scarce while fungi thrive.
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For months and years, the planet will be a hostile and deadly place.
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The sudden global winter will last for decades.
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At least 75% of all species on Earth will just vanish from existence.
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And so, as the day ends, the world is suddenly different.
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The continuity that went on for millions of years is no more.
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The era of the dinosaurs is over.
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Just like that.
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Eventually, from the ashes of the old world, survivors emerged.
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Birds that are the direct descendants of the dinosaurs and mammals that would eventually become the dominant animals on the planet.
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Without the asteroid, who knows what life on Earth would look like today?
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Without the sudden disruption of dinosaur continuity that completely changed the planet and all life on it,
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we might have never had the opportunity to become what we are today.
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It's not clear how long the human era will last.
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So far, modern humans have been around for 0.1% of the time the dinosaurs were.
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And in this short amount of time, we've achieved impressive feats, from making the world our own, to reaching space and splitting the atom.
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Yet, our future and our long-term survival are not a given.
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If we're not careful, it could end in an instant, like the age of the dinosaurs end it.
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But in contrast to them, we know that our continuity is fragile, even if it doesn't feel like it.
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We can be prepared, and be vigilant, and hopeful.
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If we're lucky, our journey will go on for a long, long time.
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Speaking of journeys, we want to address something in the spirit of transparency.
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Kvadsgesagt has changed in the last two years.
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We've become more than a YouTube channel or animation studio
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and now also run a paper shop that sells hundreds of thousands of calendars, posters and notebooks.
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That's not a happy accident.
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Many of us have a background in graphic design.
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Paper products are our roots and we actually started out creating posters, books and print infographics.
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We love that you can touch them, smell them, nerd about small details and printing techniques.
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Just like the channel, we started small and without great ambition.
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Step by step, we found the right printers and papers, learned about shipping and expanded our shop.
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We put a huge amount of research, love and hours into it, because this is the only way we know how to do things.
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We don't just want to make generic merch, we want to make things that fit our mission of making science exciting and creating beautiful things.
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Things that persist and are made with high quality and love.
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Our shop gives us another outlet to do this
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and as a nice side effect has turned into our main source of income For everything we do on this channel,
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which also keeps us independent and our videos free for everyone
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So we want to build further on that and create more things
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that last We've just started a new notebook line called pocket log
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that will expand on in the future The first edition is a dinosaur themed collection
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that will hopefully serve a future paleontologist well There are loads of plans for sciency stuff, more journals and calendars and infographics.
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Let us know what you would like us to make for your room, kids, classrooms and yourself.
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In the end, the things we do work because you like them
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and because you enable us to put thousands of hours into videos and hundreds of hours into posters and journals.
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Thank you so much for that.
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We're looking forward to making fun, science-y stuff for you, no matter if it's a video, a poster, or something else entirely.
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Thank you for watching.
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Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon
Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau C1 s’appuie sur la vidéo « The Day the Dinosaurs Died – Minute by Minute ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : dinosaur, kilometer, thousand, impact, atmosphere. Cette vidéo contient 127 phrases et 1797 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 11:46. Le locuteur parle à un rythme naturel d’environ 153 mots par minute, proche d’une conversation courante. Seuls 80 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais, le vocabulaire est donc exigeant.
Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo
Les 15 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
|---|---|---|
| dinosaur nom | /ˈdaɪnəsoɹ/ | dinosaure |
| asteroid nom | /ˈæst(ə)ɹɔɪd/ | astéroïde |
| continuity nom | /ˌkɑn.tɪˈn(j)u.ə.ti/ | continuité |
| coastline nom | rive, littoral | |
| gigantic adjectif | /d͡ʒaɪˈɡæntɪk/ | gigantesque, colossal |
| debris nom | /ˈdɛbɹi/ | débris |
| bedrock nom | /ˈbɛdˌɹɑk/ | roche mère, soubassement |
| illuminate verbe | /ɪˈl(j)umɪneɪt/ | illuminer |
| wildfire nom | /ˈwaɪldˌfaɪər/ | feu de forêt, FdF |
| lava nom | /ˈlɑvə/ | lave |
| notebook nom | /ˈnoʊtˌbʊk/ | cahier, calepin |
| sunlight nom | /ˈsʌnˌlaɪt/ | lumière du soleil |
| illusion nom | /ɪˈl(j)uːʒ(ə)n/ | illusion |
| survivor nom | /sɚˈvaɪvɚ/ | survivant, survivante |
| meter nom | /ˈmitəɹ/ | mètre, compteur |
Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez
| Mot | Sens |
|---|---|
| fall through verbe | tomber à l’eau |
| heat up verbe | chauffer |
| look forward to verbe | avoir hâte de, attendre avec impatience |
| pass through verbe | traverser |
| shut down verbe | éteindre |
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 | was covered · is released · is pushed |
| Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenant | has ever witnessed · haven't talked · have been |
Prononciation à surveiller
Le locuteur utilise 12 contractions et formes réduites, comme we're, we've, don't. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.
- Les sons « th »: photosynthesis /ˌfoʊ.toʊˈsɪn.θə.sɪs/, feather /ˈfɛðə/, thrive /θɹajv/, thermal /ˈθɜːməl/
- Les sons « sh » et « zh »: illusion /ɪˈl(j)uːʒ(ə)n/, hellish /ˈhɛlɪʃ/, eruption /ɪˈɹʌpʃən/, disruption /dɪsˈɹʌpʃən/, vegetation /ˌvɛd͡ʒəˈteɪʃən/
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: continuity /ˌkɑn.tɪˈn(j)u.ə.ti/, illuminate /ɪˈl(j)umɪneɪt/, diversify /daɪˈvɝ.sə.faɪ/, kilometre /kɪˈlɑmɪtəɹ/, photosynthesis /ˌfoʊ.toʊˈsɪn.θə.sɪs/
Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :
- /h/ — il se souffle, il n’est pas muet: hellish /ˈhɛlɪʃ/, horrify /ˈhɒɹɪfaɪ/, uphold /ˌʌpˈhəʊld/, hopeful /ˈhoʊpfl̩/, hostile /ˈhɑstəl/
- /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: gigantic /d͡ʒaɪˈɡæntɪk/, vegetation /ˌvɛd͡ʒəˈteɪʃən/, fragile /ˈfɹæd͡ʒəl/, emerge /ɪˈmɝd͡ʒ/
- /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: dinosaur /ˈdaɪnəsoɹ/, asteroid /ˈæst(ə)ɹɔɪd/, crust /kɹʌst/, debris /ˈdɛbɹi/, bedrock /ˈbɛdˌɹɑk/
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 dinosaur, asteroid, continuity.
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.