Cette série de conversations en anglais suit une famille qui part en voyage aux États-Unis. Allez avec elle à la découverte des passe-temps et de l’histoire associés aux lieux qu’elle visite. Ces conversations s’adressent à des personnes ayant un niveau d’anglais intermédiaire, voire plus avancé.
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Dans cette leçon, la famille découvre les plages magnifiques des Outer Banks, ces îles-barrières de la Caroline du Nord.
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Sam: I didn’t realize we’d have to take a ferry to get to the Outer Banks.
Paul: Of course. The Outer Banks is a long string of peninsulas and islands.
Claudine: And the place of the Wright brothers’ first successful flight!
Paul: That’s right. But we’re going to Cape Hatteras National Seashore, so we’ll be seeing more nature than airplanes.
Claudine: There must be a lot of great sea life here.
Gina: Yes, and if we’re lucky we can see the baby sea turtles returning to the sea after they hatch.
Sam: They’re born on the beach?
Gina: Yes. The mother digs a hole with her back flippers, lays her eggs and covers them. After the baby turtles hatch, they walk across the sand into the ocean.
Claudine: Wow, little baby turtles are brave.
Un peu de vocabulaire
A ferry is a boat that carries people and things across a river or narrow part of the sea.
The Outer Banks is an area of North Carolina. It is a long line of peninsulas and islands off the coast of North Carolina and a small part of Virginia.
A peninsula is an area of land that is almost entirely surrounded by water but is connected to a larger land area.
The Wright brothers were two brothers (Wilbur Wright and Orville Wright) who successfully built and flew the first powered airplane.
Cape Hatteras National Seashore is a U.S. national seashore within the Outer Banks area. A national seashore is an area of land along the sea that is protected by the U.S. government. (Le littoral national du cap Hatteras est un littoral protégé, tel un parc national, par le gouvernement des États-Unis.)
To hatch means to be born by coming out of an egg. (éclore, sortir de l’œuf)
On a turtle, the two flippers are flat parts of its body that are used for moving and swimming. (nageoires, ailerons ; signifie également palmes de plongée)
The verb to lay means that a reptile, bird, etc., produces an egg from its body. (Dans ce contexte, to lay signifie pondre.)
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