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This document provides information about the requirements and strategies for the IELTS reading, listening, and writing tests. It discusses topics like key vocabulary words to find, steps in the reading process, required knowledge for listening including sounds and strategies, and criteria evaluated in writing like task response, coherence, lexical resource, and grammatical accuracy. It also gives tips for writing tasks like brainstorming, revising, and the structure of body paragraphs.

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Session 1

This document provides information about the requirements and strategies for the IELTS reading, listening, and writing tests. It discusses topics like key vocabulary words to find, steps in the reading process, required knowledge for listening including sounds and strategies, and criteria evaluated in writing like task response, coherence, lexical resource, and grammatical accuracy. It also gives tips for writing tasks like brainstorming, revising, and the structure of body paragraphs.

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find > found > found

found > founded > founded


she was born in spring
birthday date > day of birth
practiced
essay
speaking:
a way that I tried it yesterday> -it
I tried a way yesterday.
TSV : topic-specific vocabulary
phrasal verb: verb + preposition

option n
opt for : choose
put
put on
band score 7 in lexical resource in one minute: 1-2 TSV
increase n /s/
increase v /s/
hesitation==> read aloud
when
we
vet
wet
The requirements of reading :
• Language ( vocabulary, grammar,…)
• Comprehension
• Time: 1 min= ...150.... words we should read and comprehend to get band
7
• Test-wiseness (rules & strategies)
...........................
How to find the key words:
Key word 1)
 non-linguistic items> numbers, italics , quotations
 proper nouns
 nouns ( big nouns, hard to paraphrase)
 adjectives/ adverbs ( big adjectives/ adverbs, hard to paraphrase)

key word 2)
 verbs
 grammar connecters( what, when, ….)
 x of Y
 anything that helps reconstruct the meaning

………………
steps in reading:
1. read the title and the subtitle + picture
2. read 2 questions + circle the key words
3. read the first paragraph [skim and scan]
4. locate + answer
………………
The required knowledge for IELTS listening test:
 test wiseness ( rubrics, strategies, paraphrasing)
 topic and genre familiarity
 phonetic nature of sounds
 phonological process ( connected speech)
 clusters & blending [ consonants and vowels], e.g
 deletion
 use of contractions (Id , it’ll, that’s, we’ve, there’s)
 Range of English accents
 ……………………….

Writing criteria:
1. TR( task response) : read the question carefully not to miss any part
2. C & C( coherence and cohesion) : have unity ( connections between the
sentences and the paragraphs)
 Cohesive devices:
 linking words
 Reference words > this , that, the ones
 Substitution
 Deletion > not repeating a part of a sentence that was mentioned,
if you do so
3. lR( lexical resource) : a range of vocabulary, collocations, idiomatic
expressions
4. GRA( grammatical range and accuracy): a variety of complex structures +
not having mistakes

A) Read the question carefully


B) Brainstorming
C) Start writing
D) Revising

………….
task 1: analysis / letter
task 2 : essay
4-5 paragraph
introduction
body 2-3
conclusion
............................
one body paragraph:
write one topic sentence which has the main idea.

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