Pratique du Shadowing: Cambridge IELTS 18 Listening Practice Section2 Part4 - Apprendre l'anglais à l'oral avec la vidéo

Part 4.

You will hear a student on a fashion design course giving a talk about the history of pockets.

First, you have some time to look at questions 31 to 40.

Thank you.

Now listen carefully and answer questions 31 to 40.

Good morning.

Now, we've been asked to choose an aspect of European clothing or fashion and to talk about its development over time.

I decided to focus on a rather small area of clothing, and that's pockets.

I chose pockets for two reasons, really.

We all have them in jeans, jackets, coats, for example, and even though we often carry bags or briefcases as well,

nothing is quite as convenient as being able to pop your phone or credit card into your pocket.

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.

It's certainly very interesting to go back in time and see how pockets developed for men and women.

In the 18th century, fashions were quite different from the way they are now, and pockets were too.

If we think about male fashion first, That was the time when suits became popular.

Trousers were knee -length only and referred to as breeches.

The waistcoats were short and the jackets were long.

But all three garments were lined with material and pockets were sewn into this cloth by whichever tailor the customer used.

The wearer could then carry small objects such as pencils

or coins on their person and reach them through a gap in the lining.

Coat pockets became increasingly decorative on the outside for men who wanted to look stylish.

But they were often larger but plainer if the wearer was someone with a profession who needed to carry medical instruments,

a doctor or physician, for example.

The development of women's pockets was a little different.

For one thing, they weren't nearly as visible or as easy to reach as men's.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, women carried numerous possessions on their person,

and some of these could be worth a lot of money.

Women were more vulnerable to theft, and wealthy women, in particular, worried constantly about pickpockets.

So, what they did was to have a pair of pockets made that were tied together with string.

The pockets were made of fabric, which might be recycled cloth if the wearer had little money, or something more expensive, such as linen,

sometimes featuring very delicate embroidery.

Women tied the pockets around their waist, so that they hung beneath their clothes.

Remember, skirts were long then, and there was plenty of room to hide a whole range of small possessions between the layers of petticoats

that were commonly worn.

They would have an opening in the folds of their skirts, through which they could reach whatever they needed, like their perfume.

Home.

Working women, of course, also needed to carry around items 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.

They just got bigger or longer, sometimes reaching down to their knees.

So, the tie -on pockets went well into the 19th century

and only changed when fashion altered towards the end of that period.

That's when dresses became tighter and less bulky and the pairs of pockets became very noticeable.

They stood out too much and detracted from the woman's image.

Women who had been used to carrying around a range of personal possessions and still wanted to,

needed somewhere to carry these items about their person.

That was when small bags, or pouches as they were known, came into fashion and, of course,

they inevitably led onto the handbag of more modern times, particularly when fashion removed pockets altogether.

That is the end of part four.

You now have one minute to check your answers to part four.

Thank you.

That is the end of the listening test.

In the IELTS test, you would now have 10 minutes to transfer your answers to the listening answer sheet.

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Vocabulaire et conseils d’expression pour cette leçon

Cette vidéo contient 52 phrases et 680 mots à répéter en shadowing. La partie parlée dure 7:01. Le locuteur parle lentement, environ 97 mots par minute, ce qui laisse le temps d’imiter chaque son. 82 % des mots font partie des 3 000 mots les plus courants en anglais ; le reste mérite d’être vu avant de commencer.

Vocabulaire clé de cette vidéo

15 mots de la vidéo à retenir, avec leur prononciation et leur sens :

Mot	Prononciation	Sens
pocket nom	/ˈpɑ.kɪt/	poche
clothing nom	/ˈkloʊðɪŋ/	vêtements, habits
possession nom	/pəˈzɛʃn̩/	possession
cloth nom	/klɒθ/	tissu, étoffe
coat nom	/ˈkoʊ̯t/	manteau, paletot
knee nom	/ni/	genou
jacket nom	/ˈd͡ʒæk.ɪt/	veste, blouson
skirt nom	/skɚt/	jupe
carefully adverbe	/ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/	soigneusement
refer verbe	/ɹɪˈfɜː/	référer
plain nom	/pleɪn/	plaine
aspect nom	/ˈæspɛkt/	aspect
layer nom	/ˈleɪ̯ɚ/	couche
sheet nom	/ʃit/	feuille
string nom	/stɹɪŋ/	corde

La grammaire de cette vidéo

Les structures que le locuteur utilise le plus, avec les mots exacts de la vidéo :

Structure	Dans la vidéo
Voix passive be + participe passé — l’accent est mis sur ce qui arrive, pas sur qui le fait	we've been asked · were lined · were made
Propositions relatives who / which + proposition — une précision sur une personne ou une chose	men who wanted · Women who had

Prononciation à surveiller

Le locuteur utilise 4 contractions et formes réduites, comme don't, they're, we've. Prononcez-les sous leur forme courte, telles que vous les entendez.

Les sons « th »: clothing /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/, cloth /klɒθ/, beneath /bɪˈniːθ/, wealthy /ˈwɛl.θi/, theft /θɛft/
Les sons « sh » et « zh »: possession /pəˈzɛʃn̩/, sheet /ʃit/, physician /fəˈzɪʃən/, profession /pɹəˈfɛʃ.ən/, stylish /ˈstaɪlɪʃ/
Mots longs — placez bien l’accent: altogether /ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/, inevitably /ɪˈnɛvɪtəbli/, decorative /ˈdɛk.ə.ɹə.tɪv/, embroidery /ɪmˈbɹɔɪdəɹi/

Comment s’entraîner avec cette vidéo

Écoutez la vidéo en entier une fois sans parler et notez les mots que vous ne connaissez pas.
Répétez phrase par phrase à vitesse normale, en reprenant chacune jusqu’à ce que votre rythme corresponde à celui du locuteur.
Enregistrez-vous et comparez avec l’original, en faisant attention à des mots comme pocket, clothing, possession.

Qu'est-ce que la technique du Shadowing ?

Le Shadowing est une technique d'apprentissage des langues fondée sur la science, développée à l'origine pour la formation des interprètes professionnels. Le principe est simple mais puissant : vous écoutez de l'anglais natif et le répétez immédiatement à voix haute — comme une ombre suivant le locuteur avec un décalage de 1 à 2 secondes. Les recherches montrent une amélioration significative de la précision de la prononciation, de l'intonation, du rythme, des liaisons, de la compréhension orale et de la fluidité.

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