IELTS Listening · Cam 3

Test 2 Part 4

Right. Are we all here? OK. As you know,

Level: B1 · 69 sentences

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  1. Right. Are we all here?
  2. OK. As you know,
  3. Today Vivian is going to do a presentation on the hat-making project
  4. She did with her class during her last teaching practice. So,
  5. Over to you, Vivian. Thanks.
  6. Mr Yardley has asked me to describe to you
  7. The project I did as a student teacher at a secondary school in London.
  8. I was at this school for six weeks,
  9. And I taught a variety of subjects to a class of 14-year-old pupils.
  10. The project I chose to do was a hat-making project,
  11. And I think this project could easily be adapted to suit any age.
  12. So, to explain the project.
  13. After we'd done the research,
  14. We went back to the classroom to make two basic hat shapes
  15. Using rolls of old wallpaper.
  16. We each made, first of all,
  17. A conical hat by, well, if I show you now,
  18. Cutting out a circle and then making
  19. One cut up to the centre and then
  20. Overlapping the cut like this. A conical hat that sits on your head.
  21. The other hat we made was a little more complicated.
  22. First of all, we cut out a circle again,
  23. Like this. Then you need a long piece with flaps on it.
  24. I've already made that bit, which I have here.
  25. You bend the flaps over and stick them with glue
  26. Or pritt stick to the underside of the circle,
  27. Like this. Again, I've prepared this so that I don't get glue everywhere.
  28. The pupils do, of course,
  29. So you need plenty of covers for the table.
  30. And there you have a pillbox hat,
  31. As in pill and box.
  32. Now, variations and combinations of these two hat shapes
  33. Form the basis of the pupils' final designs.
  34. The next stage of the project was the design phase,
  35. And this involved, first of all,
  36. Using their pages of research to draw a design of their hat on paper.
  37. That's the easy part.
  38. They then had to translate their two-dimensional
  39. Design into a form to fit their head.
  40. I encouraged them to make a small-scale, three-dimensional hat first,
  41. So that they could experiment with how to achieve the form they required.
  42. And I imposed certain constraints on them to keep things simple.
  43. For example, they had to use paper, not card.
  44. Paper is more pliable and easier to handle.
  45. They also had to limit their colours to white,
  46. Grey or brown shades of paper.
  47. Which reflected the colours of the buildings they were using
  48. As a model for their hats.
  49. And they had to make sure their glue didn't show.
  50. Well, it was very enjoyable.
  51. And just to give you an idea of what they produced,
  52. I brought along three hats to show you.
  53. This one here is based on a circular stairway
  54. In an old building in London. It uses three pillbox hats,
  55. One on top of the other.
  56. This was designed by Teresa. Here's another one
  57. That has a simple strip going round the base of the hat,
  58. But has then gone on to add strips of paper
  59. That come out from the base
  60. And that meet at the top of the hat,
  61. Rather like a crown, making a fairly tall hat.
  62. This was made by Muriel. And lastly,
  63. There's a combination of the pillbox
  64. Or single strip around the base
  65. And then the conical hat shape on top to form a castle turret.
  66. This was made by Fabrice.
  67. And there are many more that I could have brought.
  68. Thank you, Vivian. That was most interesting.
  69. Now, what we can learn from this is that...