voila - Environment - Intermediate - French Videos

Filters

Difficulty

Descriptions

Warmup Workout

Télévision Bretagne Ouest - Lutter contre le réchauffement climatique

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Sensibiliser la population bretonne au réchauffement climatique et proposer des solutions locales pour le réduire: voilà comment une bicyclette électrique pourrait aider tant les habitants de Morlaix que l'environnement de la planète entière!

Captions

Warmup Workout

Ferme de la Croix de Pierre - Les lapins

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Have you ever wondered where the wool from your luxurious angora sweater comes from? At the Ferme de la Croix, a lovely lady breeds angora rabbits and goats on her farm. She explains the shearing process and how she cares for her pets. We learn that one rabbit can yield forty balls of angora wool every hundred days. That's a lot of sweaters!

Matches in Transcript

Caption 9 [fr]: Voilà.
Caption 9 [en]: There you are.

Warmup Workout

TV Tours - Apiculture: Des ruches sur le toit d'un supermarché (Vendée)

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

A beekeeper in La Roche-sur-Yon has found the perfect place for his apiary: the rooftop of a supermarket. It's a win-win situation: the store manager helps the beekeeper with his production in return for a steady supply of local honey.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 43 [fr]: Et le... et... voilà, et il est de chez nous.
Caption 43 [en]: And the... and... there we are, and it's from our store.

Warmup Workout

Lionel L - La fête de la récup

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Lionel takes us to a repurposing festival. It's the second edition of this festival in the Marais neighborhood, offering a great opportunity to recycle, repurpose, and reuse everyday objects that would otherwise be discarded. It's also a great way of taking care of our planet.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 25 [fr]: Voilà. Merci, en revoir.
Caption 25 [en]: There you have it. Thank you, goodbye.

Warmup Workout

Lionel L - La Seine sort de son lit

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Lionel tells us about the Seine's recent flooding, caused by severe weather conditions in Paris and surrounding areas. A statue of a French soldier below the Pont de l'Alma acts as an indicator of the river's water level.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 31 [fr]: Donc, on attend un peu que tout cela sèche. Voilà.
Caption 31 [en]: So we're kind of waiting for all of that to dry. There you have it.

Warmup Workout

Ferme de la Croix de Pierre - La boutique

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

After the farm visit, it's time for our angora rabbit and goat breeder to show us around her boutique, where you can stock up on fluffy angora wool sweaters and super light and warm socks to help you enjoy the winter in comfort.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 14 [fr]: Là on est aussi sur du tissé. Voilà. Donc, ces fibres peuvent à la fois se tisser et se tricoter.
Caption 14 [en]: Here we are also looking at woven fabric. There you are. So these fibers can be both woven and knit.

Warmup Workout

Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 9. Galilée - Part 7

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Galileo is under close scrutiny because of his Copernican views. Unfazed, he carries on his research and his teachings. Will the Inquisition bring his demise or will his powerful friends, Pope Urban VIII among them, protect him?

Matches in Transcript

Caption 14 [fr]: voilà, je me dois de vous dire... j'ai entendu Galilée enseigner que la Terre tourne autour du Soleil.
Caption 14 [en]: well, I must tell you... I heard Galileo teach that the Earth revolves around the Sun.

Warmup Workout

Ferme de la Croix de Pierre - Les chèvres

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In the second episode of Ferme de la Croix de Pierre, the goat breeder gets all warm and cuddly with one of her baby goats, which become like plush toys when bottle-fed. She'll teach you all you need to know about caring for these adorable animals.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 10 [fr]: Quand c'est biberonné, voilà, ça fait ça.
Caption 10 [en]: When it's bottle-fed, here, this is what happens.

Warmup Workout

Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 9. Galilée - Part 5

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In part five of this episode on "The Discoverers," Galileo is warned. His belief that the Earth revolves around the sun is sacrilegious. Giordano Bruno, who claimed this fact, was burned as a heretic by the Inquisition Tribunal.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 26 [fr]: N'oubliez pas, mon jeune ami, que voilà dix ans à peine,
Caption 26 [en]: Don't forget, my young friend, that barely ten years ago,

Warmup Workout

Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 9. Galilée - Part 4

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In part four of this episode on "The Discoverers," Galileo, now a reputable scholar at the University of Padua, proceeds to make a telescope out of lenses with the help of his instrument maker, Marc'Antonio. In this cartoon, an attempt is made to explain Galileo's discoveries.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 15 [fr]: Et peu de temps après, à vingt-huit ans, le voilà professeur de mathématiques
Caption 15 [en]: And shortly after, at twenty-eight years old, he became professor of mathematics

Warmup Workout

Il était une fois: Les découvreurs - 9. Galilée - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Episode nine of this series focuses on Galileo, a prolific inventor and scientist. He discovered the principle of the simple pendulum motion, very useful in the measure of time and later in the making of clocks.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 24 [fr]: Voilà qui permet de calculer si un liquide est plus dense que l'eau.
Caption 24 [en]: This is what makes it possible to calculate whether a liquid is denser than water.

Warmup Workout

Il était une fois: Notre Terre - 25. Technologies - Part 8

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

In the last segment of this Il était une fois... episode on technology, we learn more about what vertical farms can do to help the planet thrive. The first commercial vertical farm recently opened in Singapore.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 11 [fr]: Et voilà!
Caption 11 [en]: And here we are!

Warmup Workout

Il était une fois: Notre Terre - 25. Technologies - Part 3

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The home of the future includes a talking refrigerator that gives you chocolate bars for breakfast! Unfortunately, it also includes some pesky robots....

Matches in Transcript

Caption 1 [fr]: Eh bien, vous voilà bien calmes tous les deux!
Caption 1 [en]: Well, look how quiet both of you are!

Warmup Workout

Il était une fois: Notre Terre - 25. Technologies - Part 1

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

The Maestro gives us an overview of some of the major innovations of the last century, from the invention of the radio to the discovery of the first exoplanet. We've come a long way in just a few decades!

Matches in Transcript

Caption 2 [fr]: Et voilà! Le télescope spatial mis sur orbite par la fusée
Caption 2 [en]: And there we go! The space telescope put into orbit by the rocket

Warmup Workout

Il était une fois: Les Amériques - 1. Les premiers Américains - Part 9

Difficulty: Intermediate

France

Food is scarce, too many men, not enough game to kill. What are they to do? The explorers setting foot on the Americas are having a tough time.

Matches in Transcript

Caption 11 [fr]: Ah, les voilà!
Caption 11 [en]: Oh, here they are!

Difficulty

Category

All

Field

You must be a subscriber to leave a comment.