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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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為何用這段影片練習口語？

這段關於澳大利亞原住民藝術的影片是英語影子跟讀的絕佳素材。內容涵蓋歷史、文化和工藝，話題豐富且語言規範，適合練習連貫表達與邏輯陳述。通過看影片學英語，你能接觸到自然的語速和專業領域詞彙，提升口語的多樣性與準確性。影子跟讀（shadowspeak）時，還能模仿演講者的語調起伏，增強語言的感染力，為雅思口語考試中的文化類話題積累素材。

語境中的語法與表達

1. “...making it one of the oldest art traditions...” 現在分詞作結果狀語，簡潔表達因果關係，可用於描述事物影響。
2. “Whatever they were painting, traditionally Aboriginal people...used pigment” 讓步狀語從句搭配副詞，體現邏輯層次，適合口語中的觀點轉折。
3. “However, depending on the exact conditions...the shade can be...” 轉折詞+現在分詞短語，豐富句子結構，增強表達靈活性。這些結構在雅思口語6.5分以上的回答中高頻出現，需重點掌握。

常見發音陷阱

練習shadow speech時，需注意以下難點：
- “ochre” 發音為/ˈəʊkə(r)/，易誤讀為/ˈɒtʃə(r)/，注意“ch”此處發/k/。
- “Uluru” 重音在第一音節/ʊləˈruː/，避免讀成/ˌjuːləˈruː/。
- “acrylic” /əˈkrɪlɪk/ 中的“y”發/ɪ/，而非/aɪ/。準確掌握這些單詞發音，可顯著提升口語的地道性，助力提高英語發音水平。

影片中的語法

說話人最常用的結構，並附上影片中的原話：

結構	影片中的用法
現在完成時 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去發生但與現在仍有關聯的事	have been found · has been preserved · it's been sheltered
被動語態 be + 過去分詞 — 強調發生了什麼，而不是誰做的	have been found · has been preserved · been sheltered
定語從句 who / which + 從句 — 補充說明人或事物	art, which is · oxide, which is

什麼是跟讀法？

跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧，最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓，並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大：您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同，跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性，語調，節奏，連讀，聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。

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為何用這段影片練習口語？

語境中的語法與表達

常見發音陷阱

影片中的語法

什麼是跟讀法？