Shadowing Practice: Complete IELTS Band 6.5 - 7.5 - UNIT 4 - Learn English Speaking with Video

Complete IELTS, Bands 6 .5 to 7 .5, by Guy Brook -Hart and Vanessa Jakeman.

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Unit 4.

Listening.

Exercise 3.

We're going to have a look today at Aboriginal art and painting, which actually dates back 60 ,000 years, making it one of the oldest art traditions in the world.

Now, as long as Indigenous people have been living in Australia, they've been creating different types of art.

So, let's start by having a look at some examples of ancient art.

It includes things like, as you can see here, rock paintings, bark paintings, even some sand drawings like this have been found.

Then there's the whole area of body art, which is so important for ceremonial practice.

And lastly, here are some examples of decorative art on weapons and tools.

The oldest art examples today are the rock paintings because, obviously, rock is more durable than other materials and so the art has been preserved.

In fact, most of this work is inside caves, largely because there it's been sheltered, hasn't been destroyed by the weather,

while the paintings on outside rock surfaces have often been washed away over the years.

Now, there are enormous variations in the style of Aboriginal rock art, depending on its age and location.

Dot paintings are one of the best -known visual art forms of Aboriginal culture, in which a surface is covered in small dots to reveal symbols.

Typical ones include arrows like this.

Here's a waterhole.

And these are animal tracks.

You get to see both the abstract dot paintings and more naturalistic art.

You get both in rock art of various ages.

As the ancient Aborigines didn't have a written language, the key purpose of much of this rock art was storytelling,

which has had a great significance for younger generations.

Let's move on to look at the materials.

Whatever they were painting, traditionally Aboriginal people all over Australia used pigment, such as ochre, to make paint.

Ochre's very finely textured natural rock and, well, they used this because ochre is plentiful across most of Australia.

It's coloured by iron oxide, which is the mineral that makes a lot of Australian outback soil in places such as Ayres Rock,

what is known as Uluru Red.

Uluru being the Aboriginal name for Ayers Rock.

However, depending on the exact conditions under which it formed, the shade can be anything from yellow to orange,

red, purple or dark brown.

Today, ochre occurs in many archaeological sites.

An archaeologist at one site have discovered what appears to be an artist's palette of ochres dating back 18 ,000 years.

Preparing the ochre paints was time -consuming work.

First, the appropriate rocks had to be found and collected.

Then the rock had to be broken up and ground into a powder, and that had to be mixed with some sort of fluid to bind it into paint.

Nowadays, the binder most commonly used is professional artists' acrylic binder.

But in the past, Aboriginal people used things like tree sap or something similar like bush honey.

Other fluids must also have been used but wouldn't have held paint on rock

or a piece of bark for thousands of years so sadly those paintings would have been lost.

So, how have things changed?

Well, modern Aboriginal is a mixture of the old and the new.

Things changed in the 1970s really when Aboriginal people from many different parts of Australia particularly South Australia,

Central and Northern Australia, took up acrylic painting and began to paint on canvas.

Taking a modern approach has had many advantages.

It saves artists a great deal of time and they can still choose to use the traditional yellowish, reddish, brownish colours if they wish to.

But perhaps the most important fact is that, unlike bark and rock paintings, the modern paintings are easy to sell. In fact,

painting on canvas has given Aboriginal people an opportunity to showcase their art to the world and keep their ancient culture alive.

Modern Aboriginal art, particularly dot painting, has taken off and started selling on a big scale internationally.

Aboriginal art can also be found on pottery and various musical instruments like didgeridoos and clapping sticks.

Together, these have become some of the most popular souvenirs in Australia.

Their artists, like other artists in the world, are now able to earn a living doing something they are passionate about.

Thank you.

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De situatie: Een les over Aboriginal - kunst

In de video wordt een uitleg gegeven over Aboriginal - kunst in Australië, met details over geschiedenis, stijlen en materialen. Dit is een typische voorbeeld van een formele uitleg, zoals je die kunt tegenkomen in lessen, documentaires of presentaties. Het bevat specifieke termen (zoals "ochre" en "dot paintings") en structuur (chronologische ordening, uitleg van processen), waardoor het ideaal is om je engelse spreekvaardigheid te oefenen, vooral in formele contexten.

Nuttige chunks en collocaties

"dates back [x] years" – Handig om de oudheid van iets te beschrijven, bijvoorbeeld: "This tradition dates back 60,000 years."
"depending on its age and location" – Gebruikt om variaties te verklaren, zoals: "Styles vary depending on its age and location."
"time - consuming work" – Om een taak die veel tijd kost te beschrijven: "Preparing the paint was time - consuming work."
"showcase their art to the world" – Perfect om te vertellen hoe iets aan een breed publiek wordt getoond: "They now showcase their art to the world."

Je schaduwspreekt - uitdaging

Om je engelse uitspraak en spreekvaardigheid te verbeteren, probeer nu het volgende: Kies een 30 - seconden - fragment uit de video waarin de spreker over het bereiden van "ochre" praat. Speel het fragment af, luister zorgvuldig naar de intonatie en de tempo, en herhaal direct na de spreker – dit noemen we "schaduwspreekt". Doe dit 3 keer achter elkaar. Gebruik indien nodig een shadowing app om het proces te ondersteunen. Schaduwspreekt helpt je om de natuurlijke flow van het Engels te leren en je uitspraak te verfijnen. Daarna kun je het fragment opnemen en vergelijken met de origineel om je vooruitgang te zien. Dit is een effectieve manier om je engelse spreekvaardigheid te oefenen, want je traint zowel luisteren als spreken tegelijk.

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De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:

Structuur	In de video
Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet	have been found · has been preserved · been sheltered
Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt	have been found · has been preserved · hasn't been destroyed
Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding	art, which is · oxide, which is

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