Shadowing Practice: Aboriginal Textile Design: IELTS LISTENING Vol 4 Test 7 Section 4 - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Section 4 You will hear part of a lecture given by an art
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and design lecturer on the topic of Aboriginal textile design in Australia.
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First, you have some time to look at questions 31 to 40 on page 7.
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Thank you.
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Now listen carefully and answer questions 31 to 40.
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The Indigenous people of Australia,
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or Aboriginals, have a long history of using animal and plant fibres to make a variety of fabric.
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Over the years, their traditional designs and stories have been incorporated into various textiles.
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The Erna Bella Arts Centre is a place where local Aboriginals can produce their traditional craft
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and also learn new techniques to decorate fabric.
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For the first 30 years, the artists crafted rugs working with wool.
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These rugs incorporated their own unique designs.
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However, as they became less economical to produce, the artists were introduced to batik, which is an Indonesian method of dyeing textiles.
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Batik is quicker than weaving, so many of the Erna Bella artists started to produce it themselves.
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Screen printing was later introduced to the centre,
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and Erna Bella's artists were commissioned to produce fabric for furniture that was to be used at popular tourist destinations,
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such as the National Park offices at Uluru.
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Screen printing has also been used successfully by the Tiwi people, who live on islands north of Darwin.
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Their company, Tiwi Designs, produces fabric that is inspired by their surroundings.
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For example, they incorporated bird motifs into their early designs designs.
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Tiwi art, culture and language are very different from those of mainland Aboriginal groups.
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The patterns on their fabric are related to the beliefs and legends in their culture.
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For example, some textile designs are chosen because they are thought to cause rain.
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another successful aboriginal design company was founded by jimmy pike his dynamic prints paintings
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and fabrics are greatly influenced by the australian landscape in particular
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that of the desert which is often featured in this work pike worked with acrylic paint oil pastels and screen printing.
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Surprisingly Jimmy Pike's life as an artist began in prison where he was serving a sentence for murder.
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The art teachers there recognised his talent and gave him the technical skills he needed to become a successful artist.
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After Pike's release he started his own company aiming to create a product
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that would sell well commercially but still retain its Aboriginal cultural identity.
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Eventually, he decided to bring his artwork onto textiles which were used to produce clothing.
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The designs he selected were transferred onto cotton and had both a strong linear character and a good colour range.
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Bronwyn Bancroft is one of the most successful
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Aboriginal artists and designers to date.
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She has produced a great deal of artwork and textiles and many of her paintings are held by Australian art galleries.
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Her work reflects her Aboriginal roots, but always with a contemporary fresh view of family and the natural environment.
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In 1995, she was chosen by a charity organisation to paint a pair of jeans owned by Cathy Freeman,
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a famous Aboriginal Australian athlete.
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She used imagery of lizards moving quickly over the Australian terrain I'm going to show you what I'm going to do.
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and she added a rainbow, which represents the optimism that Cathy symbolises for all Aboriginal people.
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In 2001, she was chosen to design costumes for the opening of the biggest street parade ever held in Australia,
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the Journey of a Nation Parade.
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The people in Bancroft's section of the parade all wore an outfit she designed.
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It featured the image of a snake that had no head or tail to represent an ongoing culture.
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Exploitation of creative work can be a problem for any artist
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and copyright laws exist to protect individual artists from the unauthorised use of his or her work.
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This issue is often more complex for Aboriginal artists as the symbols
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and motifs used in their designs also hold cultural significance for them.
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An example of this was when a businessman had rugs made overseas incorporating images stolen from Aboriginal paintings.
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The carpet case, as it became known, was taken to court where luckily the artists won.
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That is the end of Section 4.
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You now have half a minute to check your answers.
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Thank you.
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You now have ten minutes to transfer your answers to the listening answer sheet.
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You have two minutes left.
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Thank you.
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Please stop writing and wait for your question booklet to be collected.
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This speaking lesson is built on the video “Aboriginal Textile Design: IELTS LISTENING Vol 4 Test 7 Section 4”. The speaker keeps coming back to these words: aboriginal, design, artist, textile, fabric. This video has 60 sentences and 741 words to shadow. The speech runs for 9:29. The speaker talks slowly, about 78 words per minute, so there is time to copy every sound. Only 76% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English, so the vocabulary is demanding.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
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| aboriginal adjective | /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪ.nəl/ | First according to historical or scientific records; original; indigenous; primitive. |
| fabric verb | /ˈfæb.ɹɪk/ | To cover with fabric. |
| textile noun | /ˈtɛk.staɪl/ | Any material made of interlacing or matted fibres, including carpeting and geotextiles, woven or nonwoven. |
| incorporate verb | /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.eɪt/ | To include (something) as a part. |
| parade noun | /pəˈrɑd/ | Synonym of military parade: A show of troops, an assembly of troops as a show of force, to receive orders, or especially for inspection at set times. |
| rug noun | /ˈɹʌɡ/ | A partial covering for a floor. |
| jimmy noun | /ˈd͡ʒɪmi/ | A device used to circumvent a locking mechanism. |
| introduce verb | /ˌɪntɹəˈdus/ | To cause (someone) to be acquainted (with someone else). |
| craft noun | /ˈkɹæft/ | Ability, skillfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning… |
| artwork noun | /ˈɑɹtˌwɝk/ | A painting, drawing, sculpture or other piece of creative, visual art. |
| topic noun | /ˈtɑpɪk/ | A subject; a theme; a category or general area of interest. |
| clothing noun | /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/ | Any of a wide variety of articles, usually made of fabrics, animal hair, animal skin, or some combination thereof, used to cover the human body for warmth, to… |
| technique noun | /tɛkˈniːk/ | The practical aspects of a given art, occupation etc.; formal requirements. |
| belief noun | /bɪˈliːf/ | Mental acceptance of a claim as true. |
| carefully adverb | /ˈkɛɹf(ə)li/ | With care; attentively, circumspectly. |
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
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| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | have been incorporated · were introduced · were commissioned |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | have been incorporated · has also been · has produced |
| Relative clauses who / which + clause — extra information about a person or thing | batik, which is · desert which is · textiles which were |
Pronunciation to watch
- The “th” sounds: clothing /ˈkloʊðɪŋ/, athlete /ˈæθ.liːt/
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: sheet /ʃit/, organisation /ˈɔː.ɡə.naɪˌzeɪ.ʃən/, destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/, exploitation /ˌɛksplɔɪˈteɪʃn̩/
- Long words — get the stress right: aboriginal /ˌæb.əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪ.nəl/, incorporate /ɪŋˈkɔɹ.pɚ.eɪt/, successfully /səkˈsɛs.fə.li/, organisation /ˈɔː.ɡə.naɪˌzeɪ.ʃən/, destination /dɛstɪˈneɪʃən/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Shadow it sentence by sentence at normal speed, repeating each one until your rhythm matches the speaker.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like aboriginal, fabric, textile.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.