Pratique du Shadowing: What Exactly Is Coral? - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo
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What is coral?
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From a distance, it looks like mossy rock or bone.
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Up close, it appears to be covered in tiny flowers.
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But each of those flowers are actually an animal.
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A coral pollen.
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A round body topped with a mouth surrounded by a ring of tentacles.
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Inside, there is a simple gut lined with long threads of tissue that help digest the coral's food.
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Reef-building corals lay down a skeleton of calcium carbonate, essentially rock.
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Corals are colonial, budding off new polyps, each one connected to the one next to it,
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and genetically identical, forming a living veneer.
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Corals are hunters.
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Their tentacles are lined with millions of stinging cells that kill what they catch.
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They are super weapons on a micro scale.
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But in the clear, warm water where corals live, there's not much to catch.
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So, how do corals find food?
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The secret to their success is in their relationship with a plant.
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Living right inside their cells are tiny algae, plant cells known as symbionts.
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Like all plants, they photosynthesise.
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Using energy from the sun, they produce sugars, enough food for themselves and for their coral host.
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It's extraordinary biology, an almost alien relationship where the algae gets a home
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and the coral gets up to 90% of its food.
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And together, they build the reef.
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But because of warming oceans, there's been a massive breakdown in this crucial relationship.
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And the reef as we know it is disappearing fast.
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If science can help the reef survive, The answer may lay halfway around the world.
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On a tiny Hawaiian island, scientists are trying to understand the connection between coral and the plant inside them,
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and use that knowledge to speed up evolution.
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I'm at the Hawaiian Institute of Marine Biology, where Ruth Gates does her research.
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It's an ideal facility.
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Over here you can grow corals, and over here you can grow hammerhead sharks.
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But what's really amazing is that we are right on a coral reef.
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Dr Ruth Gates has been studying corals for over 25 years, inspired by a love of the reef.
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The coral reef is a vibrant natural city.
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It's got texture, it's got colour, it's got movement.
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You're surrounded by extraordinary things.
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Ruth and her team are investigating the mechanism of coral bleaching.
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What happens when temperatures get too high for coral?
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Hi.
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Great to see you.
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What a beautiful lab.
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Welcome.
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This special microscope lets Ruth and biologist Amy Eggers raise the water temperature to simulate warming oceans
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and observe what happens to living coral as it bleaches.
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This is the only microscope in the world that's equipped to simulate future ocean conditions
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that allows you to visualise a living organism.
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So you can really see how it's a colonial animal here, can't you?
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All of those polyps.
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The number of algal cells, or symbionts, living throughout the coral is staggering.
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Around a million in every square centimetre, an area the size of your thumbnail.
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Coral builds the reef structure that supports so much other life, so it's called a foundation species.
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If coral is a foundation species, then the symbiotes themselves are clearly a keystone species,
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because the coral cannot survive without them.
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And if the coral doesn't survive, the reef will not survive.
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When ocean temperatures get too high, the coral rejects the algae living inside it inside it in the process called bleaching.
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Coral bleaching is really the breakdown of this relationship between these plant cells and the animal itself.
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The plant cells react to high temperature and instead of creating food, they produce an irritant to the coral.
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When the animal gets stressed, somehow they break the connection and the plant cells are ousted from the system.
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Some corals belch clouds of their life-giving algal cells.
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Others release them over days in tiny clumps.
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What you see as the coral goes pale is just the clear tissues of the animal overlaying the white skeleton.
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Bleached but still living coral can clearly be seen under powerful magnification.
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It's become a ghost coral, hasn't it?
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All the structure is still there but none of the colour, none of the vibrancy.
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That is a spooky image.
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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 « What Exactly Is Coral? ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : coral, reef, cells, plant, animal. Cette vidéo contient 64 phrases et 698 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 6:53. Le locuteur parle lentement, environ 101 mots par minute, ce qui laisse le temps d’imiter chaque son. Seuls 74 % 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 |
|---|---|---|
| coral nom | /ˈkɔɹəl/ | corail |
| reef nom | /ɹiːf/ | écueil, récif |
| bleach nom | /bliːt͡ʃ/ | eau de Javel, javel |
| alga nom | /ˈæl.ɡə/ | algue |
| algal adjectif | /ˈælɡəl/ | algal |
| polyp nom | /ˈpɑlɪp/ | polype |
| simulate verbe | /ˈsɪm.jə.lət/ | simuler |
| symbiont nom | /sɪmˈbaɪ.ɑnt/ | symbiote |
| tentacle nom | /ˈtɛntəkəl/ | tentacule |
| microscope nom | /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌskoʊp/ | microscope |
| surround verbe | /səˈɹaʊnd/ | entourer, cerner |
| skeleton nom | /ˈskɛlətən/ | squelette |
| biologist nom | /baɪˈɒləd͡ʒɪst/ | biologiste, biologue |
| carbonate nom | /ˈkɑɹbəneɪt/ | carbonate |
| centimetre nom | /ˈsɛn.tɪ.miː.tə/ | centimètre |
Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
|---|---|---|
| get up to verbe | commettre | |
| lie down verbe | s'étendre, se coucher | |
| speed up verbe | /spiːdˈʌp/ | accélérer |
Prononciation à surveiller
Le locuteur utilise 5 contractions et formes réduites, comme can't, doesn't, hasn't. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: biologist /baɪˈɒləd͡ʒɪst/, centimetre /ˈsɛn.tɪ.miː.tə/, magnification /ˌmæɡnɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/, organism /ˈɔɹ.ɡəˌnɪz.əm/, genetically /d͡ʒəˈneɾɪkli/
Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :
- /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: bleach /bliːt͡ʃ/, biologist /baɪˈɒləd͡ʒɪst/, genetically /d͡ʒəˈneɾɪkli/, digest /daɪˈd͡ʒɛst/, texture /ˈtɛkst͡ʃə(ɹ)/
- /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: coral /ˈkɔɹəl/, reef /ɹiːf/, microscope /ˈmaɪ.kɹəˌskoʊp/, surround /səˈɹaʊnd/, carbonate /ˈkɑɹbəneɪt/
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 coral, reef, bleach.
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.