Apprendre l’anglais avec des vidéos

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   Theo Theo: Right. We build the club from... from... what's the phrase?
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   Nadia Nadia: So, our Saturday drawing club. What's first?
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   Theo Theo: Easy. We just book a room.
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   Nadia Nadia: Only a room? What about rules?
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   Theo Theo: Right. We build the club from... from... what's the phrase?
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   Narrator Theo knows the club needs more than a room.
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   Narrator He just can't find the phrase.
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   Narrator Four things to know about this phrase.
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   Narrator When workers build a house, they pour the foundation first.
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    Narrator Then come the walls and the roof.
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    Narrator Notice the order.
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    Narrator The foundation comes first, and everything else sits on top.
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    Narrator From the ground up means you start with the basics and build every part.
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    Narrator Used this way, it shows that you planned every part, not only one part.
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    Narrator English speakers use it for businesses, software and skills.
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    Narrator She built her graphic design business from the ground up.
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    Narrator Learning works too.
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    Narrator Maria started with basic logic, then moved to complex code.
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    Narrator We designed our community garden from the ground up.
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    Narrator The volunteers planned the soil, the beds and the water supply first.
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    Narrator Now a small change.
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    Narrator Moving a meeting by thirty minutes is only a small change.
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    Narrator Organizing a whole club, with roles and rules, needs the full phrase.
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    Nadia Nadia: A purpose, a place, rules, and a name.
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    Theo Theo: That's way more than a room!
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    Nadia Nadia: So we plan everything, starting with the basics.
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    Theo Theo: Yes! The basics first. Then the rest.
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    Narrator Put the phrase after the thing you build, design, create or learn.
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    Narrator Common verbs include build, create, design, develop, rebuild and learn.
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    Narrator Next month, our volunteers will design the safety plan from the ground up.
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    Narrator The object is the safety plan.
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    Narrator The phrase comes right after it.
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    Narrator He learned the shop business from the ground up.
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    Narrator Here, learned is the verb, and the shop business is the object.
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    Narrator The verb tense changes.
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    Narrator The idiom itself never changes.
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    Narrator Keep the idiom together.
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    Narrator Never put words between ground and up.
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    Narrator Don't put the phrase between the verb and its object.
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    Narrator She built the AI engine from the ground up.
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    Narrator "From the ground up" means she built the whole engine starting with the basics, with nothing
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    Narrator taken from before.
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    Narrator Your turn.
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    Narrator Listen, then say it out loud.
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    Narrator We're building the new website from the ground up.
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    Narrator She learned French from the ground up.
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    Narrator Choose the best answer.
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    Narrator A school replaces its whole plan, starting with the goals.
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    Narrator A.
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    Narrator Every part changed, starting with the basics.
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    Narrator One new date is only a small adjustment.
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    Theo Theo: I'm drawing our logo with no templates at all.
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    Nadia Nadia: Nice! So, from scratch.
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    Nadia Nadia: Is the club from scratch too?
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    Theo Theo: Not sure. Is there a better phrase?
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    Narrator A similar phrase is from scratch.
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    Narrator It means you start with no ready-made parts.
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    Narrator She baked the celebration cake from scratch.
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    Narrator From the ground up is different.
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    Narrator It builds level by level from the foundations.
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    Narrator The old database kept crashing, so the team rebuilt it from the ground up.
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    Narrator Scratch is about the materials.
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    Narrator Ground up is about the structure, built level by level.
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    Narrator Often both phrases fit, so choose by what you want to stress.
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    Narrator Well, I don't wanna start from scratch later.
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    Narrator He doesn't want to begin again with nothing ready, so "from scratch" fits: starting over
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    Narrator with no ready-made parts.
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    Narrator Choose the best answer.
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    Narrator A cook makes soup without any canned broth.
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    Narrator B.
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    Narrator No canned broth means no ready-made parts, and that is what from scratch stresses.
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    Narrator The phrase is neutral, so it works with neighbors and in work reports.
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    Narrator It shows how deep the planning went.
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    Narrator It doesn't mean you worked alone, or spent no money.
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    Narrator The phrase is fixed, so keep all four words: from, the, ground, up.
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    Narrator Write it as four separate words, with no hyphens.
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    Narrator Before a noun, you may see a hyphen, as in a ground-up rebuild.
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    Narrator Learners sometimes forget the word the.
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    Narrator Always keep it, and keep ground singular.
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    Narrator Also, don't swap ground for floor.
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    Narrator The idiom only uses ground.
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    Narrator In fast speech, ground and up join together, and the d links to the vowel.
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    Narrator From and the are quick and light.
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    Narrator Ground and up carry the beat.
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    Narrator One more.
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    Narrator A team says, we built it from the ground up.
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    Narrator A. The phrase shows how deep the planning went.
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    Narrator It doesn't say you worked alone or spent nothing.
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    Nadia Nadia: Someone asked how we started.
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    Theo Theo: We built it from the ground up. Goals, rules, everything.
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    Nadia Nadia: You didn't even stop to think!
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    Theo Theo: I practiced all week. Next, the logo, from scratch.
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    Narrator Now a dictation.
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    Narrator Listen and write the sentence.
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    Narrator Check your sentence. Did you write all four words: from the ground up?
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    Narrator Starting with the basics and building every part?
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    Narrator Use from the ground up.
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    Narrator Put it after the object, as in build the club from the ground up.
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    Narrator Keep all four words, in order.
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     Narrator Next, practice this idiom with the exercises on the lesson page.
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1. Question 1

   Which situation best justifies using 'from the ground up'?

   A A commuter chooses a faster bus route because the morning train was delayed. B A chef creates a restaurant menu, supplier network, and kitchen layout from initial principles. C A bookstore owner repaints the front door and updates the weekend sale banner.
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