Pratique du Shadowing: Usborne First Reading - Level 04 - The Emperor and the Nightingale - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

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The Emperor and the Nightingale The Emperor of China was a very proud man.
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He always wanted the best of everything.
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His palace was made of fine white bricks.
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The roof was solid gold.
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The garden was full of bright flowers with silver bells.
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They tinkled in the wind.
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Music to my ears.
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The garden was very big.
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It was so big that even the emperor never saw it all.
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Oof!
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He never saw the little brown nightingale who lived in the trees.
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But other people saw the nightingale.
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The gardener saw her every day.
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He liked to listen to her singing.
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Her songs always made him smile.
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Cheer up!
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Cheer up!
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One day, the emperor was reading a book about his wonderful palace.
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The book said, the garden is full of bells that tinkle sweetly.
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The emperor smiled, but the next page made him frown.
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It went on, but the nightingale's song sounds sweeter than the bells.
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What's a nightingale?
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Why haven't I heard this nightingale?
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snapped the emperor Bring it to sing in the palace now!
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The palace servants never went into the garden They didn't know anything about the nightingale
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But they didn't dare to tell the emperor What's a nightingale?
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Where can we find it?
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They searched high and low.
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They looked under flowers and behind bushes.
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Spiders can't see.
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In the end, they had to ask the gardener.
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I can show you the nightingale, he said.
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Follow me.
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They walked and walked.
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Suddenly, they heard a croak.
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The nightingale! cried the servant.
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What music!
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The gardener smiled.
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No, that's a frog in the pond.
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He replied.
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A little later, they heard a loud moo.
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The nightingale! shouted the servant.
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What a voice!
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No, that's a cow in the field.
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The gardener told them he was trying not to laugh.
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In the end, they came to a tree.
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Just then, the nightingale began to sing.
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Cheer up!
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Cheer up!
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Such sweet music!
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When she finished, the servants collapsed.
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Little bird, the emperor wants you to sing in his palace, they said.
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My songs sound best out here.
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among the trees, said the bird, but I'll come.
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As she flew back to the palace with them,
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the emperor was surprised to see such a little browned bird.
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She's not very pretty, But when she sang,
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he was entranted by her voice.
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Cheer up, cheer up.
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The emperor liked her voice so much.
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He ordered her to stay and sing to him every day.
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The Emperor gave the Nightingale a silver cage,
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but she missed living outside, among the trees.
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Soon, the little brown bird was famous.
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Even the emperor of Japan came to hear her sing.
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Cheer up, cheer up.
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What a sweet voice.
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One day, a big box arrived at the palace.
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To the emperor of China.
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Here's an even better nightingale from the Emperor of Japan.
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Inside, there was another nightingale.
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This one had sparkling golden feathers.
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Its eyes were made of rubies.
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What a beautiful bird!
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When you turned a key, it sang like the little brown bird.
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Well, sort of.
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Tra la la!
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Although the tune was always exactly the same.
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Tra la la!
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The emperor was very happy.
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He was so happy, he forgot all about the little brown bird.
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She flew away and nobody noticed.
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The emperor played the golden nightingale every morning.
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Cha la la. And every evening.
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Cha la la.
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Until one day, instead of singing, it went and kerplunk!
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Something had broken inside.
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No one knew how to fix it.
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Now the emperor longed for the little brown bird But no one could find her,
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not even the gardener Then the emperor became sick He lay in bed,
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staring sadly at his broken bird.
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His room was full of silence and shadows.
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The doctors said he was close to death.
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Suddenly, the sound of birdsong filled the air.
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It was the real nightingale.
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Cheer up, cheer up.
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She had found out the emperor was sick.
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So she had come back to sing for him.
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She sang so sweetly that the shadows seemed to fade.
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The emperor smiled and he began to get better.
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Cheer up!
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Cheer up!
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Whistling Soon the emperor would swell again.
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I am sure the nightingale cured me, he thought.
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Please stay, he begged the little bird.
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You can have a golden cage and all the servants you want.
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I'll throw away the golden bird.
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I prefer to live outside among the trees,
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the nightingale replied, and she flew away.
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The emperor was very sad.
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He asked the gardener to plant a tree under his window.
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It will remind me of the nightingale, he said.
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The gardener watered the tree every day.
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It grew and grew.
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One day, the emperor heard something flutter past his window.
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He looked out.
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Cheer up!
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Cheer up!
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To his surprise, he saw two nightingales.
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They were building a nest in the tree.
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And when they sang, everyone in the palace smiled to hear them.
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The emperor most of awe.

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Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau A2 s’appuie sur la vidéo « Usborne First Reading - Level 04 - The Emperor and the Nightingale ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : emperor, nightingale, cheer, bird, palace. Cette vidéo contient 122 phrases et 840 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 12:47. Le locuteur parle lentement, environ 66 mots par minute, ce qui laisse le temps d’imiter chaque son. 79 % 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
emperor nom/ˈɛmp(ə)ɹə/empereur
palace nom/ˈpælɪs/palais
servant nom/ˈsɝvənt/domestique, servante
shadow nom/ˈʃædəʊ̯/ombre
flower nom/ˈfloʊɚ/fleur
cage nom/keɪd͡ʒ/cage
silence nom/ˈsaɪ̯ləns/silence
ear nom/ˈɪə̯/oreille
arrive verbe/əˈɹaɪv/arriver
remind verbe/ɹəˈmaɪnd/rappeler à
cure verbe/kjɔː/soigner, guérir
dare verbe/dɛ(ə)ɹ/oser
tune nom/tjuːn/mélodie, air
brick nom/ˈbɹɪk/brique
spider nom/ˈspaɪ̯dɚ/araignée

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

MotSens
cheer up verberemonter le moral
find out verbedécouvrir, savoir
look out verbeprendre garde
throw away verberejeter, jeter

Des phrases à répéter

Des phrases courtes et complètes de la vidéo, à réutiliser dans la conversation de tous les jours :

  • Why haven't I heard this nightingale?
  • Where can we find it?
  • I'll throw away the golden bird.

La grammaire de cette vidéo

Les structures que le locuteur utilise le plus, avec les mots exacts de la vidéo :

StructureDans la vidéo
Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le faitwas made · was entranted · were made
Passé continu was/were + -ing — une action en cours à un moment du passéwas reading · was trying
Futur avec « will » will + verbe — une décision, une promesse ou une prédictionI'll come · I'll throw · will remind

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 6 contractions et formes réduites, comme didn't, I'll, can't. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

  • Les sons « sh » et « zh »: shadow /ˈʃædəʊ̯/, shout /ʃaʊt/

Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :

  • /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: emperor /ˈɛmp(ə)ɹə/, arrive /əˈɹaɪv/, remind /ɹəˈmaɪnd/, dare /dɛ(ə)ɹ/, brick /ˈbɹɪk/

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 emperor, palace, servant.

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