{"id":"tennis-si-dur","category":"sport","level":"A1","style":"natural","emoji":"🎾","topic":"Pourquoi le tennis est difficile","title":"Le tennis, pourquoi c'est si dur ?","titleEn":"Tennis: why is it so hard?","blurb":"Thomas plays every Saturday and loses every Saturday. Is the hardest part the serve, the feet, being alone on court, or the head? Marie has her own theory. Present tense only.","minutes":5,"hosts":{"Marie":"marie","Thomas":"thomas"},"focus":"Présent · questions simples (pourquoi, combien, c'est quoi) · nombres · réactions courtes","imageQuery":"tennis player serve","lines":[{"s":"Thomas","t":"Non, non, non ! Encore dans le filet !","en":"No, no, no! In the net again!"},{"s":"Marie","gap":0.05,"t":"Thomas ? Tu regardes ta vidéo de samedi ? On est à l'antenne !","en":"Thomas? Are you watching your video from Saturday? We're on air!"},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Ah. Pardon. Bonjour à tous !","en":"Oh. Sorry. Hello everyone!"},{"s":"Marie","t":"Bonjour ! Alors, Thomas joue au tennis le samedi matin.","en":"Hello! So, Thomas plays tennis on Saturday mornings."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Et le samedi après-midi, il est très en colère.","en":"And on Saturday afternoons, he's very angry."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Pas en colère. Un peu fatigué.","en":"Not angry. A bit tired."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Il tape sur la table. Je le vois !","en":"He bangs on the table. I see him!"},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Bon. Le tennis, c'est dur. Très dur.","en":"OK. Tennis is hard. Very hard."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Mais pourquoi ? C'est une balle et une raquette.","en":"But why? It's a ball and a racket."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Justement ! La balle est petite et elle va très vite.","en":"Exactly! The ball is small and it goes very fast."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Bof. Au ping-pong aussi, la balle va vite.","en":"Meh. In ping-pong the ball goes fast too."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Mais au ping-pong, la table est petite.","en":"But in ping-pong, the table is small."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Au tennis, le terrain est grand. Très grand.","en":"In tennis, the court is big. Very big."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Tu cours à gauche, tu cours à droite, tu cours devant.","en":"You run left, you run right, you run forward."},{"s":"Marie","t":"C'est du sport, quoi.","en":"It's sport, basically."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"C'est du sport, et c'est aussi des maths !","en":"It's sport, and it's maths too!"},{"s":"Marie","t":"Ah bon ?","en":"Really?"},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Tu calcules tout le temps : la vitesse, l'angle, l'effet.","en":"You calculate all the time: the speed, the angle, the spin."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Tu calcules, toi ? Sur le terrain ?","en":"You calculate? On the court?"},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Mon cerveau calcule. Moi, je cours.","en":"My brain calculates. I just run."},{"s":"Marie","t":"On commence par quoi ? Le service ?","en":"Where do we start? The serve?"},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Ah, le service. Mon cauchemar.","en":"Ah, the serve. My nightmare."},{"s":"Marie","t":"C'est quoi, le service, pour nos auditeurs ?","en":"What's the serve, for our listeners?"},{"s":"Thomas","t":"C'est le premier coup. Tu lances la balle en l'air.","en":"It's the first shot. You throw the ball up in the air."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Et tu tapes très fort, au-dessus de ta tête.","en":"And you hit it very hard, above your head."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"La balle passe le filet et tombe dans un petit carré.","en":"The ball goes over the net and lands in a small box."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Un petit carré ? Pas dans tout le terrain ?","en":"A small box? Not anywhere on the court?"},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Non ! Dans un petit carré, de l'autre côté.","en":"No! In a small box, on the other side."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Et si tu rates ?","en":"And if you miss?"},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Tu as une deuxième chance. Mais pas une troisième.","en":"You get a second chance. But not a third."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Deux chances, c'est pas mal.","en":"Two chances, that's not bad."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Tu rigoles ? Les pros servent à plus de deux cents kilomètres à l'heure.","en":"Are you kidding? The pros serve at more than two hundred kilometres an hour."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Deux cents ? C'est plus vite qu'une voiture sur l'autoroute !","en":"Two hundred? That's faster than a car on the motorway!"},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Et l'autre joueur a moins d'une seconde pour répondre.","en":"And the other player has less than a second to react."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Moins d'une seconde ! C'est impossible.","en":"Less than a second! That's impossible."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Pas impossible. Mais très, très difficile.","en":"Not impossible. But very, very difficult."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Et toi, tu sers à combien ?","en":"And you, how fast do you serve?"},{"s":"Thomas","gap":0.6,"t":"À peu près à la vitesse d'un vélo.","en":"About the speed of a bike."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Un vélo ! J'adore.","en":"A bike! I love it."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Tu ris, mais le service, c'est très technique.","en":"You laugh, but the serve is very technical."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Attends. Moi, je pense que le plus dur, c'est pas le service.","en":"Wait. I think the hardest part isn't the serve."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Ah bon ? C'est quoi, alors ?","en":"Really? What is it, then?"},{"s":"Marie","t":"C'est les pieds.","en":"It's the feet."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Les pieds ?","en":"The feet?"},{"s":"Marie","t":"Au tennis, les bons joueurs ont des pieds très rapides.","en":"In tennis, good players have very quick feet."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Ils font des petits pas, tout le temps. Ils dansent, presque.","en":"They take little steps all the time. They almost dance."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Ma prof de danse dit ça : le tennis, c'est de la danse avec une raquette.","en":"My dance teacher says so: tennis is dancing with a racket."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Ta prof de danse ne joue pas au tennis.","en":"Your dance teacher doesn't play tennis."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Si ! Elle joue le mardi. Et elle gagne.","en":"Yes she does! She plays on Tuesdays. And she wins."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Bon. Les pieds sont importants, c'est vrai.","en":"OK. The feet are important, it's true."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Si tes pieds sont mauvais, ta raquette est mauvaise aussi.","en":"If your feet are bad, your racket is bad too."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Voilà. Et toi, tu restes au fond du terrain, comme une statue.","en":"There you go. And you stay at the back of the court, like a statue."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Pas du tout ! Je bouge beaucoup.","en":"Not at all! I move a lot."},{"s":"Marie","gap":0.3,"t":"Tu bouges beaucoup... après la balle.","en":"You move a lot... after the ball."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Très drôle.","en":"Very funny."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Autre chose. Au tennis, tu es seul. Complètement seul.","en":"Another thing. In tennis, you're alone. Completely alone."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Ça, pour moi, c'est le plus dur.","en":"That, for me, is the hardest part."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Plus dur que le service ?","en":"Harder than the serve?"},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Oui. Au foot, tu fais une erreur, et un ami t'aide.","en":"Yes. In football, you make a mistake and a friend helps you."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Au tennis, tu fais une erreur, et personne n'est là.","en":"In tennis, you make a mistake and nobody is there."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Ton coach est dans les tribunes. Il regarde, mais il ne joue pas.","en":"Your coach is in the stands. He watches, but he doesn't play."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Et tu parles tout seul.","en":"And you talk to yourself."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Et je parle tout seul. Tous les joueurs parlent tout seuls !","en":"And I talk to myself. All players talk to themselves!"},{"s":"Marie","t":"Même les champions crient. Ou ils cassent leur raquette.","en":"Even the champions shout. Or they smash their racket."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Moi, je ne casse pas ma raquette. Elle coûte trop cher.","en":"I don't smash my racket. It costs too much."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Tant pis pour le spectacle.","en":"Too bad for the show."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Et le score ? Pour moi, le score du tennis, c'est un mystère.","en":"And the score? For me, tennis scoring is a mystery."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Ah, le score ! Zéro, quinze, trente, quarante.","en":"Ah, the score! Zero, fifteen, thirty, forty."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Pourquoi quarante ? Pourquoi pas quarante-cinq ?","en":"Why forty? Why not forty-five?"},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Bonne question. Personne ne sait vraiment.","en":"Good question. Nobody really knows."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Et le zéro, en anglais, c'est « love ». Ça, j'adore.","en":"And zero, in English, is \"love\". I love that."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Autre chose : au tennis, il n'y a pas de limite de temps.","en":"Another thing: in tennis, there's no time limit."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Pas de limite ? Pas quatre-vingt-dix minutes, comme au foot ?","en":"No limit? Not ninety minutes, like in football?"},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Non. Le match finit quand un joueur gagne. C'est tout.","en":"No. The match ends when a player wins. That's it."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Le record, c'est un match de plus de onze heures, à Wimbledon. Sur trois jours !","en":"The record is a match of more than eleven hours, at Wimbledon. Over three days!"},{"s":"Marie","t":"Onze heures ? Non ! Je ne te crois pas.","en":"Eleven hours? No! I don't believe you."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"C'est vrai ! Deux grands joueurs, et un match sans fin.","en":"It's true! Two big players and a never-ending match."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Moi, après onze heures, je dors sur le terrain.","en":"Me, after eleven hours, I'd be asleep on the court."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Et c'est ça, le vrai secret du tennis : la tête.","en":"And that's the real secret of tennis: the head."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Tu perds un point, tu oublies. Tu gagnes un point, tu oublies aussi.","en":"You lose a point, you forget it. You win a point, you forget it too."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Chaque point est un nouveau match.","en":"Every point is a new match."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Mouais. C'est facile à dire.","en":"Hmm. That's easy to say."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Facile à dire, très difficile à faire.","en":"Easy to say, very hard to do."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Et toi, le samedi, tu oublies tes erreurs ?","en":"And you, on Saturdays, do you forget your mistakes?"},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Non. J'en parle tout le dimanche.","en":"No. I talk about them all Sunday."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Ça, je sais. J'écoute tout le dimanche !","en":"I know. I listen all Sunday!"},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Bon. Alors, le plus dur : le service, les pieds, être seul, ou la tête ?","en":"Right. So, the hardest thing: the serve, the feet, being alone, or the head?"},{"s":"Marie","t":"Pour moi, les pieds. Je ne change pas d'avis.","en":"For me, the feet. I'm not changing my mind."},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Pour moi, la tête. Mais tu as peut-être un peu raison.","en":"For me, the head. But maybe you're a little bit right."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Seulement un peu ?","en":"Only a little?"},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Ça dépend du jour.","en":"It depends on the day."},{"s":"Marie","t":"Et samedi, tu joues encore ?","en":"And on Saturday, are you playing again?"},{"s":"Thomas","t":"Bien sûr. Je suis nul, mais j'adore ça.","en":"Of course. I'm rubbish, but I love it."},{"s":"Marie","t":"C'est génial. Moi, je viens. Avec ma prof de danse !","en":"That's great. I'm coming. With my dance teacher!"},{"s":"Thomas","gap":0.6,"t":"Ah non. Pas elle. Elle gagne toujours.","en":"Oh no. Not her. She always wins."}],"idioms":[{"fr":"être à l'antenne","heard":"à l'antenne","en":"to be on air"},{"fr":"Bof","en":"meh, not really","note":"A shrug in one word."},{"fr":"c'est pas mal","en":"that's not bad, that's pretty good","note":"Spoken: « ne » is dropped."},{"fr":"tu rigoles ?","en":"are you kidding?"},{"fr":"à peu près","en":"about, roughly"},{"fr":"pas du tout","en":"not at all"},{"fr":"très drôle","en":"very funny (often ironic)"},{"fr":"parler tout seul","heard":"parles tout seul","en":"to talk to yourself"},{"fr":"tant pis","en":"too bad, never mind"},{"fr":"c'est facile à dire","en":"that's easy to say"},{"fr":"changer d'avis","heard":"change pas d'avis","en":"to change your mind"},{"fr":"ça dépend","en":"it depends"},{"fr":"ah bon ?","heard":"ah bon","en":"really?"},{"fr":"bonne question","en":"good question"},{"fr":"tout le temps","en":"all the time"},{"fr":"c'est tout","en":"that's it, that's all"},{"fr":"quoi","heard":"c'est du sport, quoi","en":"(spoken filler at the end of a sentence) basically, you know"},{"fr":"je suis nul","en":"I'm rubbish, I'm useless","note":"Familiar: nul = very bad at something."},{"fr":"c'est génial","en":"that's great"}],"vocab":[{"fr":"une raquette","en":"a racket"},{"fr":"le filet","en":"the net"},{"fr":"le terrain","en":"the court (the playing area)"},{"fr":"le service","en":"the serve"},{"fr":"servir","en":"to serve"},{"fr":"rater","en":"to miss"},{"fr":"les tribunes","en":"the stands"},{"fr":"le score","en":"the score"}],"quiz":[{"type":"choice","prompt":"Pour Marie, qu'est-ce qui est le plus dur au tennis ?","options":["les pieds","le service","le score"],"answer":"les pieds"},{"type":"choice","prompt":"Quand Thomas joue-t-il au tennis ?","options":["le samedi matin","le mardi soir","le dimanche"],"answer":"le samedi matin"},{"type":"boolean","prompt":"Au service, le joueur a trois chances.","answer":false,"explain":"Il a une deuxième chance, mais pas une troisième."},{"type":"short","prompt":"Les pros servent à plus de combien de kilomètres à l'heure ?","answer":["deux cents","200","deux cents kilomètres à l'heure"]},{"type":"boolean","prompt":"Au tennis, un match a une limite de temps.","answer":false,"explain":"Le match finit quand un joueur gagne."},{"type":"choice","prompt":"Thomas sert à la vitesse…","options":["d'un vélo","d'une voiture","d'un avion"],"answer":"d'un vélo"},{"type":"short","prompt":"Où est le record du match le plus long ?","answer":["Wimbledon","à Wimbledon"]},{"type":"boolean","prompt":"Thomas casse souvent sa raquette.","answer":false,"explain":"Elle coûte trop cher."},{"type":"choice","prompt":"Pour Thomas, le vrai secret du tennis, c'est…","options":["la tête","la raquette","le coach"],"answer":"la tête"},{"type":"short","prompt":"Comment on dit « zéro » au tennis, en anglais ?","answer":["love"]},{"type":"boolean","prompt":"La prof de danse de Marie joue au tennis le mardi.","answer":true}],"cloze":{"mode":"bank","lines":["Encore dans le {filet} !","C'est une balle et une {raquette}.","Au tennis, le {terrain} est grand.","Ah, le {service}. Mon cauchemar.","Tu {lances} la balle en l'air.","Et si tu {rates} ?","Tu as une {deuxième} chance.","Ton coach est dans les {tribunes}.","Elle {coûte} trop cher.","Chaque {point} est un nouveau match.","Tu {tapes} très fort, au-dessus de ta tête."],"distractors":["ballon","gagnes","piscine","troisième"]},"worksheet":{"objectives":["Comprendre une conversation rapide au présent sur un sport.","Poser des questions simples : pourquoi, combien, c'est quoi ?","Réagir vite à l'oral : « Ah bon ? », « Bof », « Tu rigoles ? », « Pas du tout ! »."],"grammar":"**Le présent des verbes en -er** : *je joue, tu cours, il tape, nous parlons*. **La question avec l'intonation** : *Tu calcules, toi ?* **C'est quoi… ?** pour demander une définition : *C'est quoi, le service ?* **La négation** : *je ne casse pas ma raquette* ; à l'oral, souvent sans « ne » : *c'est pas mal*.","discussion":["Pour vous, qu'est-ce qui est le plus dur au tennis ?","Vous préférez un sport seul ou un sport en équipe ? Pourquoi ?","Vous parlez tout seul quand vous faites du sport ?"],"writing":"Décrivez votre sport préféré en six phrases au présent : où, quand, avec qui, et ce qui est difficile. Utilisez « c'est pas mal » et « ça dépend »."}}