Pratique du Shadowing: Unit 20 Weird Inventions - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

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Unit 20 Weird Inventions Have you ever thought about inventing something?
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Did you worry that your idea was too strange or unrealistic?
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Well, maybe you should think again.
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Strange or unrealistic ideas never stopped Arthur Pedrick.
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Pedrick was a British inventor.
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Originally a government clerk, he spent his retirement in the 1960s and 1970s developing new and unusual ideas.
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Some of these ideas contradicted basic physics, but that didn't stop Pedrick.
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One of his strangest ideas was a plan to connect large tubes from the continent of Australia all the way to Antarctica, a distance of 10,000 kilometers.
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These tubes would carry giant ice balls from Antarctica to Australia.
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This ice would then melt in the Australian desert, and the water would be used in irrigation.
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Another of Pedrick's inventions was a radio-controlled golf ball.
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A golfer could change the speed and direction of the golf ball by small flaps, controlled by computer chips.
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Using radio waves, the golfer could also find lost golf balls.
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Arthur Pedrick had thousands of bizarre ideas for inventions, most of which were never built.
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Though many of Pedrick's inventions were never developed, a lot of other strange ideas were.
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In 1989, a company designed and sold a theft prevention device for expensive cars.
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As part of this device, several tubes were attached to the bottom of a car.
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If someone tried to steal the car, super hot flames would come out of the tubes and burn the car thief.
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Some people who were not thieves, however, were seriously injured.
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They accidentally set off the device by walking past the car.
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Other strange inventions include underwear for dogs and pens with drinkable ink.
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The underwear keeps dogs from making a mess when they go out for a walk.
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Also, if you are ever thirsty during a test, a pen with drinkable ink would be very handy.
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If you have an idea that seems a little out in left field, don't let that stop you from trying it.
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You'll be in good company.
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Listening.
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I didn't know that.
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Listen to the dialogue and complete each sentence.
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Have you ever heard of Thomas Edison?
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Of course I have.
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Didn't he invent the light bulb?
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Actually, he didn't invent it.
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He just made it practical to use.
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Really?
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Yes, but he did invent many other things.
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He invented the first movie camera and record player, for example.
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So without him, we wouldn't have movies or recorded music.
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That's right, or electric companies or batteries.
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Wow!

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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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