Pratique du Shadowing: Where Did Earth's Water Come From? - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

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Unlike every other planet in our solar system, Earth's surface is 70 % liquid water, which while useful for life, is also kind of weird,
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because everything we know about how and when our planet formed says Earth's surface should be bone dry.
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The story goes like this.
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Our solar system formed from the collapse of a large cloud of dust and gas.
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The dense blob of gas at the center ignited to form the sun, which as a young unstable star unleashed a fierce solar wind.
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And over time, this stream of charged particles pushed the remaining gas cloud farther and farther out, leaving only solid particles behind to clump together into rocks,
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planetesimals, and finally, the rocky planets of the inner solar system that we know today.
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And here's the problem.
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Water, in the form of ice, couldn't have been one of the solid particles that stuck around to form our planet, because the early inner solar system was far too hot for frozen water,
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and any water vapor would have been blasted away by the solar wind.
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So if Earth didn't start off with water, how did we end up with such splendid oceans?
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We know H2O wasn't manufactured here over the eons, because natural processes like combustion,
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breathing and photosynthesis create and destroy roughly equal amounts of water, and either way, the amounts in question are so minuscule that they can't account for the abundance of water on the planet.
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Since Earth's water was neither part of the original package nor manufactured here, it must have flown in from far away, on meteoroids or comets or other bodies originating in the outer solar system,
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where they were far enough from the sun for frozen water to survive.
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The dirty ice balls we call comets are a logical candidate for the source of our water, but were ruled out when we discovered that they were far richer in heavy hydrogen than earth water.
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Heavy hydrogen has a neutron as well as a proton in its nucleus, and for every million hydrogen atoms in earth water, about 150 are heavy ones,
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while typical comet water has twice that many.
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These mismatched chemical signatures suggest that Earth's water couldn't have arrived on comets.
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It turns out that the most likely source for Earth's water is a type of meteorite called a carbonaceous chondrite.
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Chondrite is just the name given to the class of stony meteoroids that most commonly strike the Earth.
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But only the carbonaceous chondrites contain water, as well as lots of carbon if you couldn't tell from their name.
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They have water in them because they formed out beyond the sun's frost line, and what's more, their water has levels of heavy hydrogen similar to that of earth water,
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strongly suggesting that these earth crashers are the source of our ice caps, clouds, rivers, and oceans.
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And thus the water that turned our planet into a blue marble came, quite literally, out of the blue.
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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 « Where Did Earth's Water Come From? ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : solar, planet, earth, comet, hydrogen. Cette vidéo contient 25 phrases et 496 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 2:24. Le locuteur parle vite, environ 206 mots par minute : attendez-vous à des liaisons et à des sons réduits. 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 :

MotPrononciationSens
comet nom/ˈkɒmɪt/comète
hydrogen nom/ˈhaɪdɹəd͡ʒ(ə)n/hydrogène
chondrite nom/ˈkɒndɹaɪt/chondrite
particle nom/ˈpɑɹtək(ə)l/particule
meteoroid nommétéoroïde
freeze verbe/ˈfɹiːz/geler, glacer
ignite verbe/ɪɡˈnaɪt/mettre le feu, allumer
meteorite nom/ˈmi.ti.əˌɹaɪt/météorite
minuscule nom/ˈmɪnəˌskjul/minuscule
neutron nom/ˈnu.tɹɑn/neutron
originate verbe/əˈɹɪd͡ʒɪneɪt/venir de
photosynthesis nom/ˌfoʊ.toʊˈsɪn.θə.sɪs/photosynthèse
proton nom/ˈpɹoʊ.tɑn/proton
unleash verbe/ʌnˈliʃ/déchaîner
vapor nom/ˈveɪpɚ/vapeur

Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez

MotSens
rule out verbebarrer, biffer
turn out verbese finir, se terminer

Prononciation à surveiller

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

  • Les sons « sh » et « zh »: carbonaceous /kɑːbəˈneɪʃəs/, unleash /ʌnˈliʃ/
  • Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: carbonaceous /kɑːbəˈneɪʃəs/, meteorite /ˈmi.ti.əˌɹaɪt/, originate /əˈɹɪd͡ʒɪneɪt/, photosynthesis /ˌfoʊ.toʊˈsɪn.θə.sɪs/

Les sons difficiles pour les francophones :

  • /tʃ/ et /dʒ/ — à ne pas adoucir en « ch » et « j »: hydrogen /ˈhaɪdɹəd͡ʒ(ə)n/, mismatch /ˈmɪs.mæt͡ʃ/, originate /əˈɹɪd͡ʒɪneɪt/, combustion /kəmˈbʌs.t͡ʃən/, logical /ˈlɑd͡ʒɪkəl/
  • /r/ anglais — langue recourbée, sans frotter la gorge: hydrogen /ˈhaɪdɹəd͡ʒ(ə)n/, chondrite /ˈkɒndɹaɪt/, particle /ˈpɑɹtək(ə)l/, freeze /ˈfɹiːz/, meteorite /ˈmi.ti.əˌɹaɪt/

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. Commencez à la vitesse 0,75×, répétez phrase par phrase, puis revenez à la vitesse normale quand cela devient facile.
  3. Enregistrez-vous et comparez avec l’original, en faisant attention à des mots comme comet, hydrogen, chondrite.

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