La vidéo est formatée (chaque écoute dure 2.20 minutes, 3 écoutes ponctuées de pauses d'une minute, puis 10 minutes pour rédiger en français votre résumé, jusqu'au bip final). Je vous joins le script ainsi que le vocabulaire pour vous aider en dessous parès la vidéo..

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"On this wonderful day when we are gathered together to celebrate your academic success, I have decided to talk to you about the benefits of failure. The fact that you are graduating from Harvard suggests that you are not very well-acquainted with failure. I think it fair to say that by any conventional measure, a mere seven years after my graduation day, I had failed on an epic scale. An exceptionally short-lived marriage had imploded, and I was jobless, a lone parent, and as poor as it is possible to be in modern Britain, without being homeless, and by every usual standard, I was the biggest failure I knew. Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me. Had I really succeeded at anything else, I might never have found the determination to succeed in the one arena I believed I truly belonged. I was set free, because my greatest fear had been realised, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations. Failure taught me things about myself that I could have learned no other way. I discovered that I had a strong will, and more discipline than I had suspected; I also found out that I had friends whose value was truly above the price of rubies."

Vocabulary: To gather: se rassembler failure: échec To graduate: obtenir un diplôme to be acquainted with: connaître fair: juste mere: simple, juste scale: échelle, proportion short-lived: de courte durée to implode: imploser jobless: au chômage a lone parent: une mère célibataire homeless: sans abri a fairy tale: un conte de fée to strip away: ôter, retirer to matter: avoir de l'importance to succeed: réussir arena: arène to believe in: croire en to belong to: appartenir à to be set free: être libéré fear: crainte, peur typewriter: machine à écrire to hit rock bottom: toucher le fond the will: la volonté to find out: découvrir ruby: rubis