# Early history of keeping clean

IELTS Academic Listening - 10 questions - 10 minutes - Note completion

Source: Recording, questions and answer key from Cambridge IELTS 15, Test 3, Listening Part 4. © Cambridge University Press & Assessment. Used for educational practice. Explanations and evidence notes are written by Testmigo.

## The recording

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## Questions

### Questions 31-40: Note completion

Complete the notes below. Write ONE WORD ONLY for each answer.

Early history of keeping clean
Prehistoric times:
water was used to wash off **(31)** _____
Ancient Babylon:
soap-like material found in **(32)** _____ cylinders
Ancient Greece:
people cleaned themselves with sand and other substances
used a strigil - scraper made of **(33)** _____
washed clothes in streams
Ancient Germany and Gaul:
used soap to colour their **(34)** _____
Ancient Rome:
animal fat, ashes and clay mixed through action of rain, used for washing clothes
from about 312 BC, water carried to Roman **(35)** _____ by aqueducts
Europe in Middle Ages:
decline in bathing contributed to occurrence of **(36)** _____
**(37)** _____ began to be added to soap
Europe from 17th century:
1600s: cleanliness and bathing started becoming usual
1791: Leblanc invented a way of making soda ash from **(38)** _____
early 1800s: Chevreul turned soapmaking into a **(39)** _____
from 1800s, there was no longer a **(40)** _____ on soap

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