Prática de Shadowing: IELTS Listening Section-4(The History of Coffee) with answers - Aprenda a falar inglês com vídeo

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You will hear part of a presentation by a history student about the history of coffee.
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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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In my presentation, I'm going to talk about coffee and its importance both in economic and social terms.
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We think it was first drunk in the Arab world, but there's hardly any documentary evidence of it before the 1500s,
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although of course that doesn't mean that people didn't know about it before then.
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However, there is evidence that coffee was originally gathered from bushes growing wild in Ethiopia, in the northeast of Africa.
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In the early 16th century, it was being bought by traders, and gradually its use as a drink spread throughout the Middle East.
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It's also known that in 1522, in the Turkish city of Constantinople, which was the centre of the Ottoman Empire,
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the court physician approved its use as a medicine.
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By the mid-1500s, coffee bushes were being cultivated in the Yemen, and for the next hundred years,
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this region produced most of the coffee drunk in Africa and the Arab world.
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What's particularly interesting about coffee is its effect on social life.
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It was rarely drunk at home, but instead people went to coffee houses to drink it.
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These people, usually men, would meet to drink coffee and chat about issues of the day.
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But at the time, this chance to share ideas and opinions was seen as something that was potentially dangerous,
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and in 1623 the ruler of Constantinople demanded the destruction of all the coffee houses in the city,
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although after his death many new ones opened and coffee consumption continued.
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In the seventeenth century, coffee drinking spread to Europe, and here too, coffee shops became places where ordinary people,
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nearly always men, could meet to exchange ideas.
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Because of this, some people said that these places performed a similar function to universities.
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The opportunity they provided for people to meet together outside their own homes
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and to discuss the topics of the day had an enormous impact on social life,
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and many social movements and political developments had their origins in coffeehouse discussions.
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In the late 1600s, the Yemeni monopoly on coffee production broke down,
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and coffee production started to spread around the world, helped by European colonisation.
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Europeans set up coffee plantations in Indonesia and the Caribbean, and production of coffee in the colonies skyrocketed.
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Different types of coffee were produced in different areas, and it's interesting that the names given to these different types, like mocha or java coffee,
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were often taken from the port they were shipped to Europe from.
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But if you look at the labour system in the different colonies, there were some significant differences.
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In Brazil and the various Caribbean colonies, coffee was grown in huge plantations, and the workers there were almost all slaves.
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But this wasn't the same in all colonies.
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For example, in Java, which had been colonised by the Dutch, the peasants grew coffee and passed a proportion of this onto the Dutch,
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so it was used as a means of taxation.
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But whatever system was used, under the European powers of the 18th century, coffee production was very closely linked to colonisation.
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Coffee was grown in ever-increasing quantities to satisfy the growing demand from Europe, and it became nearly as important as sugar production,
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which was grown under very similar conditions.
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However, coffee prices were not yet low enough for people to drink it regularly at home,
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so most coffee consumption still took place in public coffee houses and it still remained something of a luxury item.
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In Britain, however, a new drink was introduced from China and started to become popular, gradually taking over from coffee.
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although at first it was so expensive that only the upper classes could afford it.
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This was tea, and by the late 1700s it was being widely drunk.
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However, when the USA gained independence from Britain in 1776, they identified this drink with Britain,
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and coffee remained the preferred drink in the USA, as it still is today.
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So, by the early 19th century, coffee was already being widely produced and consumed.
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But during this century, production boomed and coffee prices started to fall.
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This was partly because new types of transportation had been developed, which were cheaper and more efficient.
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So now, working people could afford to buy coffee.
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It wasn't just a drink for the middle classes.
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And this was at a time when large parts of Europe were starting to work in industries.
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And sometimes this meant their work didn't stop when it got dark.
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They might have to continue throughout the night.
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So the use of coffee as a stimulant became important.
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It wasn't just a drink people drank in the morning for breakfast.
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There were also changes in cultivation.
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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.

Sobre Esta Aula

Nesta aula, você praticará suas habilidades auditivas e de conversação em inglês através da história do café. O foco será na compreensão dos pontos principais do discurso apresentado sobre a importância econômica e social da bebida. Você terá a oportunidade de se familiarizar com vocabulários específicos relacionados à história do café, bem como descobrir como essa bebida influenciou a vida social ao longo dos séculos. A apresentação aborda desde suas origens na Etiópia até sua disseminação pela Europa e América, oferecendo uma rica fonte de aprendizado para quem deseja melhorar a pronúncia em inglês e expandir seu vocabulário.

Vocabulário e Frases-chave

  • Café: A bebida central da apresentação, com um papel importante na história.
  • Consumo: Refere-se ao ato de beber o café, que, historicamente, era feito em casas de café.
  • Plantação: Áreas onde os grãos de café são cultivados, especialmente nas colônias.
  • Monopólio: Controle exclusivo sobre a produção de café, principalmente no Iémen.
  • Colonização: O processo pelo qual potências europeias estabeleceram plantações nos países colonizados.
  • Preço: O valor comercial do café, que teve uma queda significativa ao longo do tempo.
  • Sociedade: Como as casas de café se tornaram espaços de discussão e socialização.
  • História: A evolução da bebida do seu surgimento até os dias atuais.

Dicas de Prática

Para aproveitar ao máximo a prática de conversação em inglês, recomenda-se que você use a técnica de shadowing enquanto ouve a apresentação. Preste atenção à velocidade e ao tom do falante. É fundamental que você escute as frases e repita imediatamente após ouvi-las, tentando imitar a entonação e a pausabilidade. Essa prática não apenas ajudará a melhorar a pronúncia em inglês, mas também permitirá que você assimile a estrutura das frases e amplie seu vocabulário.

Como o discurso é bastante informativo e contém detalhes históricos, pratique em um ambiente tranquilo. Se possível, divida a apresentação em partes menores e repita cada segmento várias vezes até se sentir confortável. Use recursos de shadowspeak e shadow speech disponíveis em sites de prática para otimizar sua experiência e aprofundar seu aprendizado.

O que é a Técnica de Shadowing?

Shadowing é uma técnica de aprendizado de idiomas com base científica, originalmente desenvolvida para o treinamento de intérpretes profissionais. O método é simples, mas poderoso: você ouve áudio em inglês nativo e repete imediatamente em voz alta — como uma sombra seguindo o falante com 1-2 segundos de atraso. Pesquisas mostram melhora significativa na precisão da pronúncia, entonação, ritmo, sons conectados, compreensão auditiva e fluência na fala.