English Listening Practice British Council Podcast - Bagpipes

Have you ever heard of bagpipe before? In this English listening practice today, let’s find some information of the bagpipes shortly, before our listening lesson.

Bagpipes

Grammatically, bagpipes or bagpipe are all correct. Don’t hesitate when using both of them. Bagpipes are an instrument with enclosed reeds fed from an air reservoir that was form in a shape of a bag. Bagpipe has been used for a long period of time, more than a millennium, in some areas such as Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia, including Turkey, the Caucasus, and around the Persian Gulf etc… The other names of bagpipes are "the pipes", "a set of pipes" or "a stand of pipes"

Those pipes are constructed by assembling some following parts

1. Air supply
2. Bag
3. Chanter
4. Drone

Some published bagpipes songs here

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Short description

As we have known bagpipe information above. Today, in this English listening practice, we have an interview with two pipers, who played bagpipes, at a festival. In this practice, they talked about how they started to play these instruments, and who their inspiration is, the trend of pipers these these days.

Tip for This English listening practice

So the tip for listening practice is to do exercise at the first half of the video, then taking few minutes to check the answer. Finally, you will listen this English practice with subtitle for one more time ,so you can check the spelling and check your answer. At the end of the video, there are answers for the task.

You can find the step-by-step instruction here

English listening lesson

Extra task

1. Before playing the following video, I’d like to introduce some questions, try to answer these your self
2. How did they get started playing this kind of instrument?
3. Who are their musical influences? Where did they played?
4. When and Where are they going to play?

English listening video

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