Skills Strategies Tips Techniques

IELTS Reading Tasks & Tips ...............................................64
Short answer questions ...........................................................66
Labelling a diagram..................................................................69
Flow chart completion.............................................................73
Table completion.....................................................................78
Sentence completion...............................................................81
Summary completion ..............................................................83
Sentence ending ......................................................................85
Paragraph headings .................................................................88
Paragraph matching ................................................................91
Classification............................................................................93
Matching features ...................................................................95
Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) .........................................98
Yes/No, True/False, Not Given ..............................................105
100 IELTS Reading Activities (classified)..........................118
1- On shaky ground................................................................120
2- The Andes Mountains........................................................120
3- Dengue: A Fever from a Bite .............................................121
4- What Do Whales Feel? ......................................................121
5- Malnutrition and children's learning .................................122
6- Sleep ..................................................................................122
7- The Age of the Digital Native or M-Ager ...........................123
8- In praise of fast food..........................................................123
9- Divers hunt for ruins of Pharos lighthouse........................124

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10- Snow-makers ...................................................................124
11- The changing nature of careers.......................................125
12- The Dangers of Air-conditioning......................................125
13- The cloud messenger.......................................................126
14- Hurricanes .......................................................................126
15- How Mobile Telephony Turned into a Health Scare .......127
16- Coffee rust .......................................................................127
17- Age related macular degeneration (AMD) ......................128
18- Building in a bag ..............................................................128
19- Paper Money ...................................................................129
20- You Want Any Fruit with That Big Mac?..........................129
21- Building the Sydney Harbour Bridge ...............................130
22- The future of energy sources ..........................................130
23- Eating up the Titanic........................................................131
24- Technology and Workplace .............................................131
25- Highlands and Islands ......................................................132
26- The history of a cool image .............................................132
27- Swallows in migration .....................................................133
28- To learn better, take a nap ..............................................133
29- Wave energy....................................................................134
30- Handling work overload ..................................................134
31- What is a dinosaur? .........................................................135
32- The History of the Guitar.................................................135
33- Overcoming the language barrier ...................................136
34- Allergy Testing .................................................................136
35- Adult Intelligence ............................................................137
36- Life, but not as we know it ..............................................137
37- Less Television, Less Violence and Aggression ................138
38- Oxbridge ..........................................................................138
39- Rosetta Stone ..................................................................139
40- Keep taking the tablets....................................................139
41- Diprotodon, human, Pleistocene & modern wombat
skeletons................................................................................140
42- Vanished ..........................................................................140

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43- Tackling Obesity in the Western World...........................141
44- Fun for the Masses ..........................................................141
45- Robots .............................................................................142
46- Taking soundings .............................................................142
47- Why are so few tigers man-eaters?.................................143
48- Jumping spiders...............................................................143
49- Sleep Apnea.....................................................................144
50- Hacked off .......................................................................144
51- Airports on water ............................................................145
52- Bathymetry......................................................................145
53- Advantages and disadvantages of different types of
fuel.........................................................................................146
54- Some Facts and Theories about Flu.................................146
55- Scratching the surface .....................................................147
56- Universities in Britain ......................................................147
57- Airports on water ............................................................148
58- Life without death ...........................................................148
59- To MBA or not to MBA? ..................................................149
60- Change in business organisations....................................149
61- Dressed to dazzle.............................................................150
62- Glaciers ............................................................................150
63- Movements of the planets ..............................................151
64- The truth about lying.......................................................151
65- The rocket: from east to west .........................................152
66- Implementing the Cycle of Success: A Case Study ..........152
67- Cure-all Pills: Myth or Reality? ........................................153
68- Trash trackers ..................................................................153
69- Organic food ....................................................................154
70- Children Tested to Destruction?......................................154
71- The need for bushfires ....................................................155
72- Preserving Britain's cultural heritage ..............................155
73- What is an ASBO? ............................................................156
74- The history of the biro.....................................................156
75- Implementing the cycle of success: a case study ............157

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76- Pottery production in ancient Akrotiri ............................157
77- The way the brain bugs ...................................................158
78- Shedding light on it..........................................................158
79- The Rise and the Fall of the British Textile Industry ........159
80- Water and Chips Break New Ground...............................159
81- The Value of a College Degree ........................................160
82- Bilingualism in Children ...................................................160
83- Biofuels backlash .............................................................161
84- Old dogs and new tricks ..................................................161
85- What are shares for? .......................................................162
86- Australian culture and culture shock...............................162
87- The Chinese bronze age ..................................................163
88- What goes on in our brains and bodies at the
fairground..............................................................................163
89- How consumers decide ...................................................164
90- Children's ideas about the rain-forests and the
implications for course design...............................................164
91- Youth works.....................................................................165
92- Zoo conservation programmes .......................................165
93- Charitable trusts ..............................................................166
94- Why plastic is the scourge of sea of life ..........................166
95- EZ Pass was just the beginning ........................................167
96- Worldly Wealth ...............................................................167
97- The Search for the Anti-aging Pill ....................................168
98- The risks of cigarette smoke............................................168
99- Video game research.......................................................169
100- Superstitions..................................................................169