(IELTS Listening) – The history of coffee

Complete the notes. Write ONE WORD ONLY in each gap.

The history of coffee

Coffee in the Arab world

• There was small-scale trade in wild coffee from Ethiopia.
  
  
• 1522: Coffee was approved in the Ottoman court as a type of medicine.
  
  
• 1623: In Constantinople, the ruler ordered the 31. of every coffee house.

Coffee arrives in Europe (17th century)

• Coffee shops were compared to 32. .
  
  
• They played an important part in social and 33. changes.

Coffee and European colonization

• European powers established coffee plantations in their colonies.
  
  
• Types of coffee were often named according to the 34. they came from.
  
  
• In Brazil and the Caribbean, most cultivation depended on 35. .
  
  
• In Java, coffee was used as a form of 36. .
  
  
• Coffee became almost as important as 37. .
  
  
• The move towards the consumption of 38. in Britain did not also take place in the USA.

Coffee in the 19th century

• Prices dropped because of improvements in 39. .
  
  
• Industrial workers found coffee helped them to work at 40. .