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Engramme: Your Daily English Programme #45: Pre-historic Cave Paintings (Listening B2-C1) |
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Think Before You Listen |
Do you know where these paintings can be found? Why are they so important to us?
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Watch and Listen |
On September 12, 1940, four teenagers chasing their dog down a valley in the Dordogne region of southwestern France accidentally discovered 20,000 year-old drawings known as "Lascaux Cave Paintings".
Watch This Video about Europe's Cave Art: When is "symbolic thought" estimated to have appeared among modern human species?
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Let's Practice |
Look at These Extracts from the Video Transcript: Listen again and fill in the blanks with no more than two words from the description1:
mouse over the colored words to see their meaning
1. We've come
to Asturias to sample small calcite deposits on top of _________.
2. What's interesting about the date is that we can't tell whether the
paintings were painted by Neanderthals or by the earliest __________ to
arrive in Europe.
3. We don't find them using things that express their ___________
until maybe 100,000 years ago.
4. Neanderthals may have had to reorganize themselves into different
social structures in order to ________.
5. Neanderthals needed means of maintaining social cohesion and that
could be through new ____________ that required the painting of caves among
other things.
6. We're also interested in whether human symbolic behavior dates back
to the point at which we start looking like humans, in which our __________
look like they do today.
7. Elsewhere in Spain, we'll find evidence for Neanderthal use of pigment,
perhaps as _____________, make-up if you like.
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Over to You |
Would you like to learn more about the Lascaux Cave Paintings and other similar ones? This link provides detailed descriptions, photos and videos of these earliest works of art.
Well Done! We hope that you enjoyed this lesson and that it helped further improve your listening ability in English. Practicing these and similar lessons on a daily basis can greatly enhance your English proficiency in a relatively short time ;)
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1 In some examinations, such as the IELTS exam, you are required to fill in gaps with a stated number of words. So, for example, 'no more than two words' means you can write one or a maximum of two words. If you write more (let's say 3 words), your answer, even if correct, will be considered unacceptable.↩
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