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1.esearch shows that sharks are more intelligent than most people think.

".elative to their bod! si5e sharks have bigger brains than birds.

$.3here is no real evidence proving that sharks are resistant to diseases.

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Monday, July 0), 2013

IELTS Reading: al*ays e'ie* !ey*ods

6ver! time !ou do a practice 76839 reading test remember to keep a record of the

'ke!words' that helped !ou to find the correct answers.

Did !ou make a ke!word table for the e&ercise in last week's lesson

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Monday, July 01, 2013

IELTS Reading: multi+le -oie +atie

3he document attached below contains a multiple choice e&ercise from the official76839 website ielts.org. Here's some advice before !ou tr! the e&ercise:

1.;irst underline the 'ke!words' in the question. 7n the first question fore&ample 7 would underline research 1!" #nited $tatesand soil

erosion.

".9econd underline the ke!words in each of the four choices e.g.reduced

%roductivit& b& "'(in choice % and )ndia and *hinain choice


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2-hich paragraph contains the following information2 3his t!pe of question is notthe

same as 2match the headings to the paragraphs2.

Here are some tips for 2which paragraph contains2 questions:

7nstead of looking for the main idea of each paragraph !ou need to find one

piece of information.

9ome paragraphs might not contain an! answers.

3he same paragraph might contain more than one answer.

7t's not usuall! difficult to understandthe question or answer but it is

difficult to findthe answer.

Do these questions last.

familiar with the passage and !ou might remember where some of the

answers are.

8ook for the easiest information first: questions that contain names numbers

or big=unusual words might be easier to find.

0lick hereto tr! an e&ample 2which paragraph contains2 question from the official

76839 website.

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Monday, June 1(, 2013

IELTS Reading d'ie: ead eal t-ings4

7t's frustrating to see students who rel! on te&tbooks to teach them ever!thing about

the 6nglish language. -h! read an article in an 'upper intermediate' te&tbook that

was probabl! written 1> !ears ago/ when !ou could be reading 'real' articles innewspapers or on the 7nternet

Read articles because you find them interesting, not because they have been written

to demonstrate a particular grammar point.

% suggestion: if !ou've read an!thing reall! interesting recentl! put a link to it and

ma!be a quick summar! if !ou have time/ in the comments area below this lesson.

%s an e&ample click hereto see an article that 7 read the other da!.

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Monday, June 10, 2013

IELTS Reading: !ey*ods #boo! , test 2$

Here's m! first ke!word table for 0ambridge book ?:
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6ven if !ou don't have a cop! of the book 7 think !ou can still learn something from

this table. 8ook at the use of s!non!ms and similar words e.g. worldwide =

international regulations = standards current = modern/.

%lso did !ou know the meanings of words like vulnerable auditor! and impairment

8ook these words up in a dictionar! and see if !ou can use them in !our own

sentences.


Monday, June 03, 2013

IELTS Reading: tue, &alse, not gi'en

Read the following %assage and answer the questions below.

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IELTS Reading: mat-ing e5eise

3oda! 7've attached a matching e&ercise. 3he answers are given on the last pagebut tr! not to look at them until !ou've done the e&ercise.

0lick here to download


Monday, May 20, 2013

IELTS Reading: te-ni6ues

7 asked some of m! students to list the most important things to remember in the

76839 reading test. Here are their top , tips:

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IELTS Reading: al*ays e'ie* 'oabulay

6ven if !ou find a reading e&ercise eas! it's alwa!s useful to review the ke!

vocabular! that helped !ou to get the answers.

Here's m! review of the vocabular! from last week's e&ercise:

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IELTS Reading: *-i- +aaga+- ontains

0lick on the link below to tr! toda!'s reading e&ercise. 3he questions are at the end

of the passage.

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Monday, +il 2, 2013

IELTS Reading: multi+le -oie

Read the following text, and chose the best answer to the questions below.

3he Blacebo 6ffect

% placebo is a sham or simulated medical intervention. 9ometimes patients given a

placebo treatment will have a perceived or actual improvement in a medical

condition a phenomenon commonl! called the placebo effect.

% stud! of Danish general practitioners found that (E had prescribed a placebo at

least 1> times in the past !ear. 3he most frequentl! prescribed placebos were

antibiotics for viral infections and vitamins for fatigue. 9pecialists and hospitalbased

ph!sicians reported much lower rates of placebo use.

1. +he %lacebo effect refers to

%/ a simulated medical treatment


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Monday, +il 1%, 2013

IELTS Reading: -oose t-e -eading

*hoose the best heading for the following %aragra%h from the list below.

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3his table shows how important it is to look for similar words in the reading test. 7t

also shows that 76839 reading is a test of !our vocabular! knowledge. ;or e&ample

do !ou know the difference between '!es=no questions' and 'openform questions'Do !ou know what 'coverage' and 'misconceptions' mean


Monday, +il 01, 2013

IELTS Reading: multi+le -oie

Read the following text and answer the questions below.

3he ethos of the aristocrac! as e&emplified in the 6nglish public schools greatl!

influenced Bierre de 0oubertin. 3he public schools subscribed to the belief that sport

formed an important part of education an attitude summed up in the sa!ing 'menssana in corpore sano' a sound mind in a sound bod!. 7n this ethos a gentleman was

one who became an allrounder not the best at one specific thing. 3here was also a

prevailing concept of fairness in which practising or training was considered

tantamount to cheating.

1. De 0oubertin agreed with the idea that:

%/ sport is an activit! for gentlemen.


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the main words in the question then underline an! similar words that the! find as

the! read the passage.

3here are $ reasons wh! underlining is useful:

1. 7t encourages !ou to use the ke!word techniqueto find the answers.

".)ou don't lose !our place in the passage when !ou're turning pages to check

between the question and the te&t.

$.3he same information ma! be relevant for a later question e.g. when !ou do

a 'paragraph headings' section last/.

7 can alwa!s tell when students have worked hard on a reading paper b! the amount

of underlining or highlighting the! have done. 7f !ou don't usuall! underline thingsstart nowI

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Monday, Ma- 1), 2013

IELTS Reading: -oose t-e title

Read the following %assage and choose the best title from the list below.

Future Shockis a book written b! the futurist %lvin 3offler in 1?J>. 7n the book

3offler defines the term 2future shock2 as a certain ps!chological state of individualsand entire societies. His shortest definition for the term is a personal perception of

2too much change in too short a period of time2. 3he book became an internationalbestseller selling over , million copies and has been widel! translated.

3offler argued that societ! is undergoing an enormous structural change arevolution from an industrial societ! to a 2superindustrial societ!2. 3his change

overwhelms people he believed the accelerated rate of technological and socialchange leaving people disconnected and suffering from 2shattering stress and

disorientation2 future shocked. 3offler stated that the maKorit! of social problems ares!mptoms of future shock. 7n his discussion of the components of such shock he

populari5ed the term 2information overload.2

%/ % shocking vision of the future.


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series of interconnected avenues which create a ver! large autofree 5one although

it is crossed in places b! streets with vehicular traffic. Cost of these 5ones allow

deliver! trucks to service the businesses located there during the earl! morning and

streetcleaning vehicles will usuall! go through these streets after most shops have

closed for the night.

7n North %merica where a more commonl! used term is pedestrian mall such areas

are still in their infanc!. ;ew cities have pedestrian 5ones but some have

pedestrianised single streets. Can! pedestrian streets are surfaced with

cobblestones or pavement bricks which discourage an! kind of wheeled traffic

including wheelchairs. 3he! are rarel! completel! free of motor vehicles.

ill the ga%s below with N/ 0/R +2AN 3 4/R$ from the text.

1.7n some cases people are encouraged to park MMMMMMMM of the town or cit!centre.

".3he onl! vehicles permitted in most pedestrian 5ones are those used forMMMMMMMM or MMMMMMMM cleaning.

$.0ertain t!pes of road surface can be used to MMMMMMMM traffic.

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Monday, Ma- 0., 2013

IELTS Reading: *-en to s!im o san

Can! 76839 books talk about 'skimming' and 'scanning' to find answers in the

reading test.


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the deciding game si& becoming the first computer s!stem to defeat a reigning world

champion in a match under standard chess tournament time controls.

$%fter the loss asparov said that he sometimes saw deep intelligence and

creativit! in the machine's moves suggesting that during the second game human

chess pla!ers had intervened on behalf of the machine which would be a violation ofthe rules. 7


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Did !ou stud! this table carefull! Did !ou know the words credibility, hardships,

sustenance, struggle, harsh, abandon

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Monday, 9ebuay 11, 2013

IELTS Reading: easy !ey*ods

Here are some eas! 'ke!words' that helped m! students to get the answers for the

General reading test on page 11, of 0ambridge 76839 ,:


Monday, 9ebuay 0., 2013

IELTS Reading: tue, &alse, not gi'en

Read the following %assage about a method for music teaching.

3he 9u5uki method is a method of teaching music conceived and e&ecuted b!

Papanese violinist 9hin'ichi 9u5uki born 1? died 1??/ dating from the mid">th

centur!. 3he central belief of 9u5uki is that all people are capable of learning from

their environment. 3he essential components of his method spring from the desire to

create the 2right environment2 for learning music. He also believed that this positive

environment would also help to foster character in students.

%s a skilled violinist but a beginner at the German language who struggled to learn it

9u5uki noticed that children pick up their native language quickl! and even dialects

adults consider 2difficult2 to learn are spoken with ease b! *!earolds. He reasoned

that if children have the skill to acquire their mother tongue then the! have thenecessar! abilit! to become proficient on a musical instrument. He pioneered the

idea that preschool age children could learn to pla! the violin if learning steps were

small enough and if the instrument was scaled down to fit their bod!.

ecide whether the following statements are true, false or not given.

1.9u5uki believed that environment is crucial for an!one learning a musicalinstrument.

".His method helped him to learn German.

$.9u5uki compared language learning with learning to pla! an instrument.

(.He introduced new ideas about teaching music to infants.
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Monday, Januay 2), 2013

IELTS Reading: my ad'ie

Here is m! list of advice and techniques for 76839 reading:1.Don't read the whole te&t4 !ou haven't got enough time. Pust go straight to

the questions.

".'Baragraph' questions are much easier if !ou do them last. Do other sections

first.

$.3he answers to most questions should be in the correct order in the te&t so

!ou don't need to go back to the beginning to start looking for the ne&t

answer.

(.ead all instructions carefull!.

*.8ook for 'ke!words'. 3here are usuall! words in the questions that are similarto words !ou need to find in the te&t. ;or e&ample if the te&t contains the

word 2global2 the question might use the word 2international2. 7f !ou find

the similar words !ou have probabl! found the answer.

,.)ou must get to the end and answer ever! question. 7f !ou don't finish !ou

might miss some eas! points.

J.9ome questions are difficult because their aim is to separate band and

band ?. Don't waste time on difficult questions. Ciss them finish the e&am

and return to them at the end.


Monday, Januay 21, 2013

IELTS Reading: &ill t-e ga+s

3he -right brothers +rville and -ilbur were two %merican brothers inventors and

aviation pioneers who were credited with inventing and building the world's first

successful airplane and making the first controlled powered and sustained heavier

thanair human flight on December 1J 1?>$. 7n the two !ears afterward the

brothers developed their fl!ing machine into the first practical fi&edwing aircraft.
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3he brothers' fundamental breakthrough was their invention of threea&is control

which enabled the pilot to steer the aircraft effectivel! and to maintain its equilibrium.

3his method became standard and remains standard on fi&edwing aircraft of all

kinds. ;rom the beginning of their aeronautical work the -right brothers focused on

developing a reliable method of pilot control as the ke! to solving 2the fl!ing

problem2. 3his approach differed significantl! from other e&perimenters of the timewho put more emphasis on developing powerful engines. Qsing a small homebuilt

wind tunnel the -rights also collected more accurate data than an!one had before

enabling them to design and build wings and propellers that were more efficient than

rival models.

3he! gained the mechanical skills essential for their success b! working for !ears in

their shop with printing presses bic!cles motors and other machiner!. 3heir work

with bic!cles in particular influenced their belief that an unstable vehicle like a fl!ing

machine could be controlled and balanced with practice.

ill each ga% in the summar& below with a maximum of " words.7n 1?>$ the -right brothers completed development of the first airplane that wascapable of sustaining controlled MMMMMM. 3he ke! to their success was a s!stem that

gave the pilot the means to control and MMMMMM the airplane. 3his set them apartfrom other inventors who had focused on building MMMMMM. 3he brothers had

previous e&perience with a wide variet! of MMMMMM but it was their work with MMMMMMthat had the greatest influence on their ideas.


Monday, Januay 1., 2013

IELTS Reading: some suggestions

Beople often ask me for advice about how to improve their reading. Here are some

suggestions:

1.7f !ou want to improve !our reading the first thing to do is read a lot. 3here

are no shortcuts or secret techniques4 !ou will onl! improve with time and

practice.

".%n!thing !ou read in 6nglish is good practice so read about subKects that

interest !ou. 3r! to enKo! reading in 6nglish.

$.6nglish is the most used language on the web. -henever !ou search forinformation on the 7nternet tr! searching in 6nglish first.

(.emember that 2understanding is not the same as using2. eep a notebook

with useful words and phrases that !ou find when !ou're reading and tr!

using them in !our own sentences.

*.%part from reading things that interest !ou !ou also need to read lots of76839 passages. 7f !ou've done all of the tests in the 0ambridge books

read the passages again without doing the questions. Qse a dictionar!take notes and tr! to full! understand each passage.

,.%nother wa! to use the 0ambridge tests is to look at the correct answers to

each question first. )our task is to find out wh! those answers are correctb! anal!sing the passage carefull! and finding the 'ke!words'.
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7'm sure !ou can think of other suggestions.


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Are the following statements true, false or not given?

1.Can! e&perts regard ;arada! as the foremost e&perimentalist of all time.

".;arada! educated himself b! reading books that were recommended to him

b! George iebau.

$.;arada! came to the attention of a famous chemist after he wrote a bookbased on the chemist's lectures.

Posted bySimoninIELTS Reading|Pemalin!| "omments #7)$

Monday, ;eembe 1(, 2012

IELTS Reading: 2 6uestions about e5am te-ni6ue

1. 9hould !ou read the whole passage before looking at the questions

". 9hould !ou go to the questions first then skim=scan to find the answers

C! answer to question 1 is no. )ou don't have time to read the whole passage

unless !our 6nglish is almost 'native speaker' level.

C! answer to question " is &es and no.

)es go to the questions first.No don't skim or scan unless the question contains a name or number.

C! advice is to do the questions one b! one. 7nstead of skimming or scanning readthe passage carefull!. 3he answers to most question sections will be in order in the

passage so &ou will graduall& read the whole %assageas !ou find the answers.


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