Comprendre l’anglais au quotidien
Commencez par de courts extraits, puis passez à des phrases plus longues. Écoutez une première fois pour comprendre la situation, puis une seconde pour retrouver les mots.
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A year-long cruise
The fictional cruise lasts one year and includes private cabin lodging and daily meals in the headline price. Travel insurance and shore excursions cost extra, and the traveler must obtain managerial permission to work remotely before completing a booking.
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Vidéo · 9 min Joining a library
Joining a library means becoming a registered member who can borrow books temporarily and use resources. Registration involves showing acceptable evidence such as photo ID and proof of address before receiving your membership card. Under this fictional practice policy, members can take out up to six books for three weeks. Borrowers may renew their loans online unless another patron has reserved the title, while unreturned items incur a recurring overdue charge of twenty pence per day.
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Eight hours of sleep
Eight hours of sleep names a duration. Words such as most and around limit a statement: most does not mean everyone, and around does not mean exactly. This lesson asks you to identify what the speaker says, not to decide how much sleep an individual needs.
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Returning an online order
A return sends an item back to the seller. A refund sends money back to the buyer; an exchange replaces the item. Follow the shop's instructions for the handover deadline, receipt and packaging, and check which outcome is being offered.
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Rescheduled interview voicemail
Instead of introduces the detail being replaced: Monday instead of Friday means Monday is the new day. Rather than can contrast two ways of meeting. By introduces a deadline: reply by Thursday means reply no later than Thursday.
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Booking a hotel room
A hotel booking reserves accommodation between specific dates. The guest agrees on the number of nights, the bed arrangement, standard inclusions, optional extra costs, and any cancellation limits set by the property.
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Weather-dependent plans
Conditional plans establish two possible paths based on an uncertain event. In this conversation, the friends prefer cycling outdoors, but rain makes that choice uncertain. The word if introduces the weather condition required for cycling. The word otherwise introduces the indoor alternative if that condition fails. The word instead highlights that cooking lunch replaces cycling rather than adding another event to their afternoon.
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A good trajectory
A good trajectory indicates that your overall performance is improving steadily over time. It describes a positive trend rather than finished perfection, meaning that specific habits or details may still require adjustment.
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Describing lost property
Describing lost property means providing a set of precise factual details that distinguishes your possession from other similar items in storage.
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Medicine instructions
Medicine instructions tell you the amount to take each time and how often to take it. Words such as before, with, and after connect the instruction to food. A warning with if gives a condition and tells you what to do in that situation.
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Project status update
In these updates, already helps report completed work, still shows that a situation continues, and once connects a next step to something that must happen first.
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Confirming an appointment
Confirming an appointment means checking an arrangement that already exists, rather than making a new booking. The written example below changes Monday to Wednesday, with a 2:15 p.m. appointment and a 2:10 p.m. arrival. It illustrates the situation; it is not the recording's transcript.
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Understanding an indirect refusal
An indirect refusal communicates that the speaker cannot or does not want to accept the current invitation without directly saying no. Appreciation can soften the message, while a reason explains why the proposed plan will not work.
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Train platform change
In this announcement, the train still goes to York, but its departure time and platform change. The sixteen ten train is delayed by fifteen minutes, so the revised departure is sixteen twenty-five from platform seven instead of platform two.
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Checking a café order
In an order such as two soups, but one without cream, the customer wants two portions and changes only one. With introduces something included; without introduces something excluded. An allergy explains why an ingredient must be avoided.
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Delivery voicemail corrections
A delivery message can correct an arrival time, part of a reference code or a collection location. Listen for the replacement detail and keep the words that define the time window. The written examples and separate recordings use different details, so do not assume every message has the same time or code.
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Changing a plan
A changed plan keeps an activity but alters a detail, such as its time or place. A canceled plan does not go ahead as arranged. Listen to the whole exchange to find out what the friends decide and whether they accept a replacement plan.
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Vidéo · 7 min Take it easy
'Take it easy' means to rest and reduce effort, to calm down when feeling anxious or agitated, or to offer a warm, casual goodbye.
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