Are you throwing away all the good stuff? via GIPHY Learning points: IELTS tests are bursting with absolutely essential vocabulary Doing a Practice Test, checking your score and then throwing it in the bin is like buying a banana and just eating the skin (?! 😄) You must EXPLOIT the text for vocabulary and grammar…
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IELTS Reading: History of the tortoise
Academic Reading Passage 3: open questions, TFNG, flowchart, Q40. Learning point: knowing the fundamental theories of evolution and animal types will help you skim this difficult text you can still use simple location strategies to find answers, even when you don’t know what the words mean Q40: look for the synonym of significant (remarkable) in…
IELTS Reading: How to match information
General Training Reading Passage 3 Look for: TYPES of information e.g here we need to find ‘threats’ (dangers) EXAMPLES e.g. here ‘ways in which glow-worms have been used’ or ‘glow-worm distribution‘ = examples of places where they live. General Training Passage 3 Matching Information and True/False/Not Given. I have broken up the text to help…
IELTS Reading: Autumn Leaves
A really tough Academic Reading lesson which practices Matching statements Gap fill True/False/Not Given questions. In this article I show you how a ‘theory-evidence’ structure works and how it helps you find answers more easily. NB ‘fall‘ (US) = ‘autumn‘ (UK) Autumn leaves – summary Canadian writer Jay Ingram investigates the mystery of why leaves…