Pratique du Shadowing: What If the Kraken Was Real? - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo
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Below the thunders of the Upper Deep, far, far beneath, in the abysmal sea,
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his ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep, the Kraken sleepeth.
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That's right, it's time to release the Kraken.
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This is the legendary sea monster.
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It's massive, terrifying, and hungry.
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Thankfully, it's just a myth, right?
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What if this behemoth of the sea actually existed?
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How would this Leviathan live in the real world?
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And how would this monster affect our lives?
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This is What If, and here's what would happen, would happen if the Kraken were real.
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It's time to dive in.
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We're getting up close and personal with the mythical cephalopod feared by ocean dwellers and land lovers alike, the Kraken.
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How exactly would the Kraken live in our world?
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First, we would categorize the Kraken as a cephalopod.
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Like the octopus, squid, and cuttlefish, the kraken would be a highly advanced and intelligent marine animal.
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Cephalopods are soft-bodied, so they have no bones to become fossils.
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That would explain why we haven't found any remains of a kraken.
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But it also proposes a terrifying possibility.
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If the kraken lived by the laws of science, it wouldn't be immortal, which means there's more than one.
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And they're breeding.
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baby krakens.
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As to where this is happening, we assume it would remain in the North Atlantic Ocean.
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That being said, the species of giant squids alive today inhabit all of the world's oceans, so we shouldn't consider ourselves to be safe yet.
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Your first hint that you may be in the presence of a kraken is that you catch lots of fish.
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And I mean, a lot of fish.
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If it seems too good to be true, that's because it is.
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The kraken is scaring the fish towards the surface.
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And that's a harbinger of death for unwary sailors.
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Giant squids hunt by keeping still in deep waters.
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When a fish gets close enough to the dangling tentacles, it's pulled into the squid's grasp and is unable to escape the suction cups that line the tentacles.
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We can assume that the kraken hunts in a similar style, but fish isn't on its menu.
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It wants you, your crew, and your ship.
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The kraken is described in folklore as being the size of a few small islands, and its back was 1,500 m in circumference.
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It's also said that the kraken was able to pull massive ships completely underwater with its tentacles.
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How strong would it have to be to pull this off?
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Well, Archimedes' Principle states that the buoyant force of an object submerged in a fluid
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equals the weight of the fluid that the object displaces.
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If you take the gross tonnage of your ship, and multiply it by the density of seawater and gravity, then subtract the weight of your ship,
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it will give you the force that the kraken needs to use to pull your ship under the water.
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For the kraken to pull a regular-sized ship completely underwater, it would need to exert a force of just over 400,000 kg.
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In non-mathematical terms, the Kraken is very, very strong. And you?
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Well, I'm sorry to break this to you, but you're Kraken food.
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It's safe to say that if at least one of these monsters dwelled beneath the ocean, anything involving sea travel would have happened very, very differently.
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How would it affect us?
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Well, if this monster of the deep is lurking in the Atlantic.
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It would have changed history as we know it.
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The Vikings wouldn't have been able to sail overseas if this sea monster was eating them.
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Come to think of it, Christopher Columbus and his crew may have ended up in a watery grave, and never made it to the New World.
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In fact, North America might not have been discovered at all until the invention of air travel.
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Now, we could assume that explorers evaded the kraken on their voyage, but with the kraken being such a massive creature,
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it would need a lot of food to sustain itself.
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meaning it doesn't look good for anyone who likes to go in the water.
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Thankfully, the Kraken isn't currently devastating the ocean today.
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If it ever existed in the first place, it would have been gone long before humans made their debut.
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The myths and legends attributed to the Kraken are more than likely encounters with their very real,
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and arguably very terrifying, giant squid cousins.
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But after all that, we can't write the old kraken off for sure.
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Human beings have only searched 5% of the oceans.
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Everything else down there is a mystery.
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It may be a creature of myth, but we can't imagine it would be fun to be eaten by a kraken.
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What if another real nautical creature decided to make you its dinner?
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What if you were swallowed by a whale?
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Well, that sounds like a story for another WHAT IF.
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Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon
Cette leçon d’expression orale de niveau B2 s’appuie sur la vidéo « What If the Kraken Was Real? ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : kraken, ocean, ship, monster, fish. Cette vidéo contient 63 phrases et 817 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 5:53. Le locuteur parle à un rythme régulier d’environ 139 mots par minute, confortable pour le shadowing. Seuls 78 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais, le vocabulaire est donc exigeant. 10 de ses 63 phrases sont des questions : un bon entraînement pour l’intonation interrogative et les réponses courtes.
Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo
Les 15 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
|---|---|---|
| cephalopod nom | /ˈsɛfələpɑd/ | céphalopode |
| tentacle nom | /ˈtɛntəkəl/ | tentacule |
| terrify verbe | /ˈtɛɹɪfaɪ/ | terrifier |
| myth nom | /mɪθ/ | mythe |
| underwater adjectif | /ʌndɚˈwɔtəɹ/ | sous l'eau |
| abysmal adjectif | /əˈbɪz.məl/ | épouvantable, terrible |
| behemoth nom | /bəˈhi(ː).məθ/ | Béhémoth |
| buoyant adjectif | /ˈbɔɪ.ənt/ | flottant, flottable |
| categorize verbe | /ˈkætɪɡəˌɹaɪz/ | classer, classifier |
| circumference nom | /sɚˈkʌmfɹəns/ | circonférence |
| cuttlefish nom | /ˈkʌt(ə)lfɪʃ/ | seiche |
| dangle verbe | /ˈdæŋ.ɡəl/ | pendre, pendouiller |
| devastate verbe | /ˈdɛv.ə.steɪt/ | dévaster |
| folklore nom | /ˈfoʊk.lɔːɹ/ | folklore |
| harbinger nom | /ˈhɑɹ.bɪn.d͡ʒəɹ/ | présage |
Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez
| Mot | Sens |
|---|---|
| get up verbe | se lever |
Des phrases à répéter
Des phrases courtes et complètes de la vidéo, à réutiliser dans la conversation de tous les jours :
- How would it affect us?
- What if another real nautical creature decided to make you its dinner?
- What if you were swallowed by a whale?
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 | being said · is described · have been discovered |
| Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenant | haven't found · have only searched |
| Propositions relatives who / which + proposition — une précision sur une personne ou une chose | immortal, which means · anyone who likes |
Prononciation à surveiller
Le locuteur utilise 13 contractions et formes réduites, comme can't, isn't, wouldn't. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.
- Les sons « th »: myth /mɪθ/, behemoth /bəˈhi(ː).məθ/, mythical /ˈmɪθɪkəl/, mathematical /ˌmæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪ.kəl/, thunder /ˈθʌndɚ/
- Les sons « sh » et « zh »: cuttlefish /ˈkʌt(ə)lfɪʃ/, suction /ˈsʌkʃən/, invention /ɪnˈvɛnʃən/
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: cephalopod /ˈsɛfələpɑd/, underwater /ʌndɚˈwɔtəɹ/, categorize /ˈkætɪɡəˌɹaɪz/, mathematical /ˌmæθ(.ə)ˈmæt.ɪ.kəl/
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 cephalopod, tentacle, terrify.
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.