Pratique du Shadowing: Why Britain Uses Separate Hot and Cold Taps - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo
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The mixer tap.
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Brilliant invention, and yet something that seems to have passed Britain by.
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You'll get Americans coming over here and asking why our taps look like they're from the 1940s.
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And even here, in my parents' bathroom, I'm visiting my folks this weekend, and I just have a new bathroom put in.
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Separate hot and cold taps.
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And there are all sorts of theories out there about why that might be, generally revolving around that we're British and stiff upper lip, and, you know, we don't need mixer taps, we've never had them and,
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well, that's partly true, but it also goes back to how houses in Britain were constructed after World War II.
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In most old British houses, there's a cold -water storage tank up in the attic.
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It's reasonably sized, about 250 litres, and that, in turn, feeds a hot -water storage tank that's for the central heating
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and for hot water in the bathroom and the kitchen and so on.
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But the trouble is, that might not be entirely safe drinking water, because that cold water storage tank, in some houses that weren't properly maintained,
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might have been open to the elements, or silted up, or covered with iron rust, or in one particular case that you can read about, have a couple of dead rats floating in it.
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That water might technically not be drinkable, and under the regulations it is not counted as drinking water.
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The cold, meanwhile, at least certainly in the kitchen and sometimes the bathroom too, that cold water comes straight from the mains.
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That counts as drinkable.
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So here's the thing, you have cold, safe, the regulations call it wholesome drinking water, and you have, well, almost certainly safe,
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but not technically, not legally under the regulations, hot water.
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And never the twain shall meet.
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If you have a mixer tap, then technically, the unsafe hot water, in worst -case scenario where there's a backwash valve failure and the mains turns off,
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that unsafe water could go back, backwash through all the systems and go out to contaminate the rest of the street or the rest of the water system.
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That's not legal, therefore, no mixer tap.
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You don't cross the streams.
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Nowadays, of course, it's a little bit different.
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This house had its hot water tank ripped out a few months ago.
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The attic is now just a big empty space again.
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And, well, there's a very modern, shiny bit of technology downstairs that heats up water on demand.
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All new -build houses, go this way, they've got mixer taps, it'll be absolutely fine.
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But, I remember being told as a kid, never drink from the hot water tap.
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And that stuck with me.
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Even now, if there is a mixer tap and I want to drink from it, I will run the cold water for a few seconds, just to make sure that anything that's unsafe has come out of it.
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Even now, old habits die hard, and sometimes these things just feel a bit safer.
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Thank you.
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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 « Why Britain Uses Separate Hot and Cold Taps ». Les mots qui reviennent le plus souvent : tap, cold, hot, mixer, bathroom. Cette vidéo contient 32 phrases et 510 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 2:49. Le locuteur parle vite, environ 181 mots par minute : attendez-vous à des liaisons et à des sons réduits. 83 % 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
Les 15 mots les plus avancés de la vidéo, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :
| Mot | Prononciation | Sens |
|---|---|---|
| mixer nom | /ˈmɪksə(ɹ)/ | batte-beurre, mixeur |
| unsafe adjectif | /ʌnˈseɪf/ | dangereux |
| technically adverbe | /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/ | techniquement |
| drinkable adjectif | /ˈdɹɪŋk.ə.bəl/ | potable, buvable |
| attic nom | /ˈætɪk/ | grenier, combles |
| contaminate verbe | /kənˈtæmɪneɪt/ | contaminer, salir |
| revolve verbe | /ɹɪˈvɑlv/ | retourner, tourner |
| litre nom | /ˈli.tɚ/ | litre |
| wholesome adjectif | /ˈhoʊl.səm/ | salubre, sain |
| downstairs adverbe | /daʊnˈstɛɹz/ | au-dessous, en bas |
| rust nom | /ɹʌst/ | rouille |
| stiff adjectif | /stɪf/ | rigide, raide |
| float verbe | /fləʊt/ | flotter |
| construct verbe | /ˈkɑn.stɹʌkt/ | construire |
| reasonably adverbe | /ˈɹiː.zən.ə.bli/ | raisonnablement |
Les verbes à particule que vous entendrez
| Mot | Sens |
|---|---|
| come over verbe | venir |
| go back verbe | rentrer, retourner |
| heat up verbe | chauffer |
| rip out verbe | arracher |
| turn off verbe | éteindre |
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 | were constructed · is not counted · being told |
| Present perfect have/has + participe passé — une action passée qui compte encore maintenant | we've never had · has come |
Prononciation à surveiller
Le locuteur utilise 10 contractions et formes réduites, comme don't, I'm, it'll. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.
- Les sons « sh » et « zh »: backwash /ˈbæk.wɑʃ/, invention /ɪnˈvɛnʃən/
- Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: technically /ˈtɛk.nɪˌkəl.i/, contaminate /kənˈtæmɪneɪt/, reasonably /ˈɹiː.zən.ə.bli/
Comment s’entraîner avec cette vidéo
- Écoutez la vidéo en entier une fois sans parler et notez les mots que vous ne connaissez pas.
- Commencez à la vitesse 0,75×, répétez phrase par phrase, puis revenez à la vitesse normale quand cela devient facile.
- Enregistrez-vous et comparez avec l’original, en faisant attention à des mots comme mixer, unsafe, technically.
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.