A MOVIE STAR
UNE VEDETTE DE CINEMA
Exercice 1
Commencer par écouter la leçon en entier
Exercice 4
Traduire la structure du texte en anglais
Tu sais quoi ?
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Exercice 2
Lire le texte à voix haute
A MOVIE STAR
A: Guess what? I saw Matt Madon the day before yesterday!
B: Did you? You lucky thing! What was he like?
A: If you must know, he was a bit disappointing.
B: Come on, are you telling me the truth?
A: Of course I am. He was shorter than I imagined. I thought he was taller than me, but he wasn’t. He was also older and fatter. In fact he was ugly, with horrible teeth!
B: Was he? What a shame! I liked him when he was younger and slimmer, in that movie Sad Lunchtime.
A: Yeah, that was brilliant. He was a big star, bigger than Billy Bell. He was married to Jade Jones and I think he was happier. But she died in a car crash. Much later, he starred in a disaster movie with his sixth wife, but it flopped.
B: Is that right? I don’t remember that one.
A: Don’t you? It was awful – or disastrous! Anyway, his films got more expensive and the budgets became bigger.
B: Yes, they were more commercial – and much longer, too. Did you see the last one, The Longest and Darkest Night?
A: No, I didn’t. When did it come out?
B: It came out a couple of years ago but I watched it on video. It wasn’t bad. It was more unusual and more interesting than Sad Lunchtime. But it was much less entertaining and less funny. It had a happy ending, though: the audience cheered when it finished.
Exercice 3
Traduire le vocabulaire en anglais
Être marié à
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Exercice 5
Traduire le texte complet en anglais
UNE VEDETTE DE CINEMA
A : Tu sais quoi ? J’ai vu Matt Madon avant-hier !
B : Ah bon ? Veinarde ! Il était comment ?
A : Si tu veux vraiment le savoir, il était un peu dévevant.
B : Allons…est-ce que tu me dis la vérité ?
A : Bien sûr que oui. Il était plus petit que je ne l’imaginais. Je pensais qu’il était plus grand que moi, mais non. Il était aussi plus vieux et plus gros. En fait, il était laid, avec des dents affreuses !
B : Ah bon ? Quel dommage ! Je l’aimais bien quand il était plus jeune et plus mince, dans ce film, L’heure de déjeuner triste.
A : Ouais, c’était génial. C’était une grande vedette, plus grande que Billy Bell. Il était marié à Jade Jones et je pense qu’il était plus heureux. Mais elle est morte dans un accident de voiture. Beaucoup plus tard, il a été la vedette d’un film catastrophe avec sa sixième femme, mais il a fait un bide.
B : C’est vrai ? Je ne me souviens pas de celui-ci.
A : An bon ? Il était vraiment affreux – ou catstrophique ! Quoiqu’il en soit, ses films sont devenus plus chers et les budgets plus gros.
B : Oui, ils étaient plus commerciaux – et beaucoup plus longs aussi. As-tu vu le dernier, La Nuit la plus longue et la plus sombre ?
A : Non. Quand est-il sorti ?
B : Il est sorti il y a environ deux ans, mais je l’ai regardé en vidéo. Il n’était pas mauvais. Il était plus singulier et plus intéressant que L’heure de déjeuner triste. Mais il était beaucoup moins distrayant et moins drôle. Il avait une fin heureuse, cependant : le public a applaudi à la fin.
A MOVIE STAR
A: Guess what? I saw Matt Madon the day before yesterday!
B: Did you? You lucky thing! What was he like?
A: If you must know, he was a bit disappointing.
B: Come on, are you telling me the truth?
A: Of course I am. He was shorter than I imagined. I thought he was taller than me, but he wasn’t. He was also older and fatter. In fact he was ugly, with horrible teeth!
B: Was he? What a shame! I liked him when he was younger and slimmer, in that movie Sad Lunchtime.
A: Yeah, that was brilliant. He was a big star, bigger than Billy Bell. He was married to Jade Jones and I think he was happier. But she died in a car crash. Much later, he starred in a disaster movie with his sixth wife, but it flopped.
B: Is that right? I don’t remember that one.
A: Don’t you? It was awful – or disastrous! Anyway, his films got more expensive and the budgets became bigger.
B: Yes, they were more commercial – and much longer, too. Did you see the last one, The Longest and Darkest Night?
A: No, I didn’t. When did it come out?
B: It came out a couple of years ago but I watched it on video. It wasn’t bad. It was more unusual and more interesting than Sad Lunchtime. But it was much less entertaining and less funny. It had a happy ending, though: the audience cheered when it finished.