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IEL TS Reading Tasks
Short answer questions
Paragraph heading
Labelling a diagram
Paragraph matching
Flow chart completion
Classification
Table completion
Matching features
Note-taking
Multiple Choice Questions
Summary completion
TRUE, FALSE, NOT GIVEN
Sentence ending
YES, NO, NOT GIVEN
Alireza Memarzadeh is a TESOL certified teacher and holds teaching certificates from University of Cambridge,
Trinity College London, Cavendish College, ATI Florida and a BA in Business Management from Shahid Beheshti
Univesity. He has been teaching English for over ten years; working in many educational centres as an English instructor.
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Document Outline - Introduction
- Contents
- 100 IELTS Reading Targets
- Skimming, Scanning, Reading intensively
- 1- Be familiar with the test format (Academic)
- 2- Be familiar with the test format (General Training)
- 3- Predict your band scores
- 4- Learn how best to approach each task
- 5- Be familiar with global and local tasks
- 6- Learn how to fill in the answer sheet
- 7- Check your answer key
- 8- Try different approaches and see what works best for you
- 9- Survey the text; orientate yourself to the text
- 10- Develop your own reading approach
- 11- Analyse the questions at speed
- 12- Learn to skim the text
- 13- Choose your skimming approach
- 14- Vary your skimming speed
- 15- Learn to scan
- 16- Read intensively
- 17- Use the SQ3R Reading Method
- 18- Use 'Active Reading' strategies
- 19- Improve your speed reading skills
- 20- Do speed reading techniques if they work for you
- 21- Maximise your comprehension by marking your texts
- 22- Practice how to mark a text
- 23- Extract the main purpose of each paragraph
- 24- Jot down main ideas in the margin when skimming
- 25- Identify the function of a paragraph
- 26- Don't translate when reading
- 27- Note if there is a glossary accompanying the passage
- 28- Read widely
- 29- Recall while reading
- 30- Read the instructions carefully
- 31- Identify the words that are most important in each question
- 32- Anticipate grammatical form as well as vocabulary
- 33- Learn to spot synonyms and parallel phrases
- 34- Don't spend too long on a single question
- 35- Guess if you are running out of time
- 36- Recognise text organisations
- 37- Use the first paragraph to make predictions
- 38- Identify the thesis statement (Essay map)
- 39- Check the body paragraphs
- 40- Learn to recognise paragraph structure
- 41- Identify the main idea of a paragraph
- 42- Identify supporting ideas
- 43- Check the conclusion
- 44- Improve your fluency skills
- 45- Use a pointer tool as a pacer
- 46- Read in units or chunks of words
- 47- Widen your vision span
- 48- Avoid regressing
- 49- Avoid vocalisation
- 50- Check your reading style
- 51- Improve your concentration
- 52- Race the clock
- 53- Do the easier questions first
- 54- The questions normally follow the text
- 55- Identify meaning from context
- 56- Be familiar with common context clues
- 57- Make inferences
- 58- Recognise rhetorical questions
- 59- Pay attention to punctuation
- 60- Follow the content; no expert knowledge needed
- 61- Identify distractors
- 62- Narrow down your choices
- 63- Evaluate answer choices
- 64- Choose scientific sounding answers
- 65- Avoid extreme statements (Exaggeration trap)
- 66- Look out for controlling words
- 67- Be familiar with modal verbs
- 68- Choose alternatives mentioned in the passage
- 69- Be aware of 'Duplication trap'
- 70- Identify 'Fact traps'
- 71- Distinguish between 'fact' and 'opinion' in written material
- 72- Identify chronological signal words
- 73- Locate sequence transitions when reading the stages of a process
- 74- Locate words expressing importance
- 75- Recognise the categories
- 76- Identify examples
- 77- Pay attention to how the descriptive words make you feel
- 78- Learn to recognise transition words
- 79- Identify 'switchback' words
- 80- Find enumeration; listing signals
- 81- Recognise the words introducing new points & comments
- 82- Recognise the words showing argument signals
- 83- Recognise the relationships between ideas (cause & effect)
- 84- Recognise the relationships; problem and solution
- 85- Look out for comparison and contrast signals
- 86- Identify words expressing similarity and difference
- 87- Build your bank of words and phrases
- 88- Identify word families (Prefixes, Roots and Suffixes)
- 89- Identify how words relate to each other
- 90- Identify adjectives & adverbs where necessary
- 91- Pay particular attention to collocations
- 92- Be familiar with types of clauses
- 93- Check if there is a definition
- 94- Look out for grammar words
- 95- Pay particular attention to negative signs
- 96- Identify pronoun references
- 97- Identify noun phrases
- 98- Pay particular attention to the words expressing attitude
- 99- Identify versatile and specific words
- 100- Increase your reading speed
- IELTS Reading Tasks & Tips
- Short answer questions
- Labelling a diagram
- Flow chart completion
- Table completion
- Sentence completion
- Summary completion
- Sentence ending
- Paragraph headings
- Paragraph matching
- Classification
- Matching features
- Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
- Yes/No, True/False, Not Given
- 100 IELTS Reading Activities (classified)
- 1- On shaky ground
- 2- The Andes Mountains
- 3- Dengue: A Fever from a Bite
- 4- What Do Whales Feel?
- 5- Malnutrition and children's learning
- 6- Sleep
- 7- The Age of the Digital Native or M-Ager
- 8- In praise of fast food
- 9- Divers hunt for ruins of Pharos lighthouse
- 10- Snow-makers
- 11- The changing nature of careers
- 12- The Dangers of Air-conditioning
- 13- The cloud messenger
- 14- Hurricanes
- 15- How Mobile Telephony Turned into a Health Scare
- 16- Coffee rust
- 17- Age related macular degeneration (AMD)
- 18- Building in a bag
- 19- Paper Money
- 20- You Want Any Fruit with That Big Mac?
- 21- Building the Sydney Harbour Bridge
- 22- The future of energy sources
- 23- Eating up the Titanic
- 24- Technology and Workplace
- 25- Highlands and Islands
- 26- The history of a cool image
- 27- Swallows in migration
- 28- To learn better, take a nap
- 29- Wave energy
- 30- Handling work overload
- 31- What is a dinosaur?
- 32- The History of the Guitar
- 33- Overcoming the language barrier
- 34- Allergy Testing
- 35- Adult Intelligence
- 36- Life, but not as we know it
- 37- Less Television, Less Violence and Aggression
- 38- Oxbridge
- 39- Rosetta Stone
- 40- Keep taking the tablets
- 41- Diprotodon, human, Pleistocene & modern wombat skeletons
- 42- Vanished
- 43- Tackling Obesity in the Western World
- 44- Fun for the Masses
- 45- Robots
- 46- Taking soundings
- 47- Why are so few tigers man-eaters?
- 48- Jumping spiders
- 49- Sleep Apnea
- 50- Hacked off
- 51- Airports on water
- 52- Bathymetry
- 53- Advantages and disadvantages of different types of fuel
- 54- Some Facts and Theories about Flu
- 55- Scratching the surface
- 56- Universities in Britain
- 57- Airports on water
- 58- Life without death
- 59- To MBA or not to MBA?
- 60- Change in business organisations
- 61- Dressed to dazzle
- 62- Glaciers
- 63- Movements of the planets
- 64- The truth about lying
- 65- The rocket: from east to west
- 66- Implementing the Cycle of Success: A Case Study
- 67- Cure-all Pills: Myth or Reality?
- 68- Trash trackers
- 69- Organic food
- 70- Children Tested to Destruction?
- 71- The need for bushfires
- 72- Preserving Britain's cultural heritage
- 73- What is an ASBO?
- 74- The history of the biro
- 75- Implementing the cycle of success: a case study
- 76- Pottery production in ancient Akrotiri
- 77- The way the brain bugs
- 78- Shedding light on it
- 79- The Rise and the Fall of the British Textile Industry
- 80- Water and Chips Break New Ground
- 81- The Value of a College Degree
- 82- Bilingualism in Children
- 83- Biofuels backlash
- 84- Old dogs and new tricks
- 85- What are shares for?
- 86- Australian culture and culture shock
- 87- The Chinese bronze age
- 88- What goes on in our brains and bodies at the fairground
- 89- How consumers decide
- 90- Children's ideas about the rain-forests and the implications for course design
- 91- Youth works
- 92- Zoo conservation programmes
- 93- Charitable trusts
- 94- Why plastic is the scourge of sea of life
- 95- EZ Pass was just the beginning
- 96- Worldly Wealth
- 97- The Search for the Anti-aging Pill
- 98- The risks of cigarette smoke
- 99- Video game research
- 100- Superstitions
- IELTS Reading Samples (Academic)
- Test 1 Passage 1
- Test 1 Passage 2
- Test 1 Passage 3
- Test 2 Passage 1
- Test 2 Passage 2
- Test 2 Passage 3
- Test 3 Passage 1
- Test 3 Passage 2
- Test 3 Passage 3
- Test 4 Passage 1
- Test 4 Passage 2
- Test 4 Passage 3
- Test 5 Passage 1
- Test 5 Passage 2
- Test 5 Passage 3
- Test 6 Passage 1
- Test 6 Passage 2
- Test 6 Passage 3
- Test 7 Passage 1
- Test 7 Passage 2
- Test 7 Passage 3
- Test 8 Passage 1
- Test 8 Passage 2
- Test 8 Passage 3
- Test 9 Passage 1
- Test 9 Passage 2
- Test 9 Passage 3
- Test 10 Passage 1
- Test 10 Passage 2
- Test 10 Passage 3
- IELTS Reading Answer Sheet
- IELTS Reading Samples (General Training)
- Test 1 Section 1
- Test 1 Section 2
- Test 1 Section 3
- Test 2 Section 1
- Test 2 Section 2
- Test 2 Section 3
- Test 3 Section 1
- Test 3 Section 2
- Test 3 Section 3
- Test 4 Secti
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