Shadowing Practice: Cambridge IELTS 18 Test 2 Section 4 - Learn English Speaking with Video

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Part 4 You will hear a student on a fashion design course giving a talk about the history of pockets.
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First you have some time to look at questions 31 to 40.
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Thank you.
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Now listen carefully and answer questions 31 to 40.
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Good morning.
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Now, we've been asked to choose an aspect of European clothing or fashion and to talk about its development over time.
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I decided to focus on a rather small area of clothing, and that's pockets.
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I chose pockets for two reasons, really.
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We all have them in jeans, jackets, coats, for example, and even though we often carry bags or briefcases as well,
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nothing is quite as convenient as being able to pop your phone or credit card into your pocket it.
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Yet, I suspect that other than that, people don't really think about pockets too much, and they're rather overlooked as a fashion item.
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It's certainly very interesting to go back in time and see how pockets developed for men and women.
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In the 18th century, fashions were quite different from the way they are now, and pockets were too.
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If we think about male fashion first, that was the time when suits became popular.
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Trousers were knee-length only and referred to as breeches.
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The waistcoats were short and the jackets were long.
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But all three garments were lined with material and pockets were sewn into this cloth by whichever tailor the customer used.
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The wearer could then carry small objects such as pencils
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or coins on their person and reach them through a gap in the lining.
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Coat pockets became increasingly decorative on the outside for men who wanted to look stylish,
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but they were often larger but plainer if the wearer was someone with a profession who needed to carry medical instruments,
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a doctor or physician, for example.
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The development of women's pockets was a little different.
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For one thing, they weren't nearly as visible or as easy to reach as men's.
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In the 18th and 19th centuries, women carried numerous possessions on their person,
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and some of these could be worth a lot of money.
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Women were more vulnerable to theft, and wealthy women, in particular, worried constantly about pickpockets.
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So, what they did was to have a pair of pockets made that were tied together with string.
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The pockets were made of fabric, which might be recycled cloth if the wearer had little money, or something more expensive, such as linen,
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sometimes featuring very delicate embroidery.
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Women tied the pockets around their waist, so that they hung beneath their clothes.
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Remember, skirts were long then, and there was plenty of room to hide a whole range of small possessions between the layers of petticoats
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that were commonly worn.
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They would have an opening in the folds of their skirts, through which they could reach whatever they needed, like their perfume.
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Working women, of course, also needed to carry around items
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that they might use for whatever job or trade they were involved in, but their pairs of pockets still remained on the inside of their clothing.
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They just got bigger or longer, sometimes reaching down to their knees.
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So, the tie-on pockets went well into the nineteenth century,
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and only changed when fashion altered towards the end of that period.
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That's when dresses became tighter and less bulky, and the pairs of pockets became very noticeable.
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They stood out too much and detracted from the woman's image.
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Women who had been used to carrying around a range of personal possessions and still wanted to,
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needed somewhere to carry these items about their person.
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That was when small bags, or pouches as they were known, came into fashion, and of course,
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they inevitably led onto the handbag of more modern times, particularly when fashion removed pockets altogether.
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That is the end of part four.
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You now have one minute to check your answers to part four.
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Thank you.
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Thank you.
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you would now have 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the listening answer sheet.
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Vocabulario y notas de pronunciación para esta lección

Esta lección de conversación de nivel B2 se basa en el vídeo “Cambridge IELTS 18 Test 2 Section 4”. Las palabras que más se repiten: pocket, fashion, carry, became, answer. Este vídeo tiene 50 frases y 670 palabras para practicar shadowing. La parte hablada dura 7:01. El hablante habla despacio, unas 96 palabras por minuto, así que hay tiempo para imitar cada sonido. Solo el 81 % de las palabras está entre las 3.000 más comunes del inglés, por lo que el vocabulario es exigente.

Vocabulario clave de este vídeo

Las 15 palabras más avanzadas del vídeo, con su pronunciación y significado:

PalabraPronunciaciónSignificado
cloth sustantivo/klɒθ/tela
skirt sustantivo/skɚt/falda, enaguas
breeches sustantivo/ˈbɹiː.t͡ʃɪz/calzones
briefcase sustantivo/ˈbɹiːfˌkeɪs/maletín
detract verbo/dɪˈtɹækt/detraer
embroidery sustantivo/ɪmˈbɹɔɪdəɹi/bordado
handbag sustantivo/ˈhændˌbæɡ/bolsa, bolso
pickpocket sustantivo/ˈpɪkpɒkɪt/carterista, bolsista
recycle verbo/ɹəˈsaɪkəl/reciclar
waistcoat sustantivo/ˈweɪs(t)kəʊt/chaleco, chalequillo
overlook verbo/ˈoʊ.vɚˌlʊk/pasar por alto, pasársele de alto
garment sustantivo/ˈɡɑɹmənt/prenda, prenda de vestir
tailor sustantivo/ˈteɪlɚ/sastre, modisto
linen sustantivo/ˈlɪnɪn/lino, linge
whichever/wɪt͡ʃˈɛvɚ/cualquiera, cual sea

Gramática en este vídeo

Las estructuras que más usa el hablante, con las palabras exactas del vídeo:

EstructuraEn el vídeo
Voz pasiva be + participio pasado — importa lo que ocurre, no quién lo hacewe've been asked · were lined · were made
Oraciones de relativo who / which + oración — información extra sobre una persona o cosamen who wanted · Women who had

Pronunciación a tener en cuenta

El hablante usa 4 contracciones y formas reducidas, como don't, they're, we've. Dilas en su forma corta, tal como las oyes.

  • Los sonidos de “th”: cloth /klɒθ/, nineteenth /ˌnaɪnˈtiːnθ/, altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/, theft /θɛft/
  • Los sonidos de “sh” y “zh”: stylish /ˈstaɪlɪʃ/, profession /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ən/, physician /fəˈzɪʃən/
  • Palabras largas — cuida el acento: embroidery /ɪmˈbɹɔɪdəɹi/, decorative /ˈdɛk.ə.ɹə.tɪv/, inevitably /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbli/, altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/

Sonidos difíciles para hispanohablantes:

  • s + consonante al inicio — sin añadir una “e” delante: skirt /skɚt/, stylish /ˈstaɪlɪʃ/
  • /v/ — no es /b/: los dientes tocan el labio inferior: overlook /ˈoʊ.vɚˌlʊk/, whichever /wɪt͡ʃˈɛvɚ/, decorative /ˈdɛk.ə.ɹə.tɪv/, inevitably /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbli/, convenient /kənˈviː.niənt/
  • /z/ — sonora, no /s/: breeches /ˈbɹiː.t͡ʃɪz/, trousers /ˈtɹaʊzɚz/, jeans /d͡ʒiːnz/, physician /fəˈzɪʃən/

Cómo practicar con este vídeo

  1. Escucha el vídeo entero una vez sin hablar y anota las palabras que no conoces.
  2. Haz shadowing frase por frase a velocidad normal, repitiendo cada una hasta que tu ritmo coincida con el del hablante.
  3. Grábate y compara con el original, prestando atención a palabras como cloth, skirt, breeches.

¿Qué es la Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing es una técnica de aprendizaje de idiomas respaldada por la ciencia, desarrollada originalmente para la formación de intérpretes profesionales y popularizada por el políglota Dr. Alexander Arguelles. El método es simple pero poderoso: escuchas audio en inglés nativo y lo repites en voz alta de inmediato, como una sombra que sigue al hablante con solo 1-2 segundos de retraso. A diferencia de la escucha pasiva o los ejercicios de gramática, el shadowing obliga a tu cerebro y músculos de la boca a procesar y reproducir simultáneamente patrones de habla reales. Las investigaciones muestran que mejora significativamente la precisión de la pronunciación, la entonación, el ritmo, el habla conectada, la comprensión auditiva y la fluidez al hablar, convirtiéndola en una de las metodologías más efectivas para la preparación del IELTS Speaking y la comunicación en inglés en el mundo real.

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