Ielts Reading

IELTS READING SKILLS
WHAT IS IELTS
READING?
Reading is the second part of IELTS test, and
takes 60 minutes. It consists of three or
sometimes four reading passages of
increasing diffi cultly, and there is a total of
40 questions to answer on the reading
answer sheets, be aware that no extra time
is given for transferring your answers.
QUESTION TYPE
• Matching Headings • Multiple chioce

• Matching Paragraph • List Selection
Information • Choosing a Title
• Matching Features • Short Answer
• Sentence Completion
• Matching Sentence ending
• True/False/Not Given • Summary Completion
• Yes/No/Not Given • Table Completion
SKILL 1: SKIMMING AND SCANNING
• Skimming the text - give it a quick read to understand its
overall meaning, once you understand what the text is
about, it will be easier to find the specific information you
need to answer the questions.
• Scanning the text by give it a quick read to identify key
information
Most IELTS question types involve using skimming and
scanning, for example:
• Matching Paragraph
• True/False/Not Given / Yes/No/Not Given
• Summary Completion. etc
(C) Even if we cannot be sure that the arrival of
Australian Aboriginals on the continent had
catastrophic eff ects on its native animals, it
seems that the animals had a rather spiritual
eff ect on the humans. The Aboriginal
mythological "Dreamtime" includes a cast of
monstrous creatures, many of which bear a Which paragraph contains the following
information?
close resemblance to some of the real-life
monsters that once stalked Australia's plains.
1.
Are the myths based in fact? Perhaps: after all,
these creatures are far stranger than anything 2.
dreamed up by humans.
(D) For instance, the two-tonnes weighting

Diprotodon comfortably holds the title of
largest marsupial ever. In size and appearance
it looked superficially like a modern rhinoceros,
but the Diprotodon seems to have had a social
lifestyle more like that of an elephant, another
mammal with which it shares anatomical
similarities. What the Diprotodon most
resembles, however, is exactly what it is: an
SKILL 2 - IDENTIFYING KEYWORD
• Keywords are essential to locate and understand
answers.
• These could be names, numbers, unique terms, or
• Keywords
synonyms. you underline are usually nouns, group of
nouns, verbs etc. except articles (a, an, the),
prepositions (for, in, at etc.) and others.
• An extremely important strategy of underlining
keyword is to identify the focus of the question,
especially in Multiple Choice Questions.
One of the most famous works of art in
the world is Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona
Lisa. Nearly everyone who goes to see
the original will already be familiar with
it from reproductions, but they accept
that fine art is more rewardingly viewed
in its original form. However, if the
Mona Lisa was a famous novel, few
people would bother to go to a museum
to read the writer’s actual manuscript
rather than a printed reproduction. This
might be explained by the fact that the
novel has evolved precisely because of
technological developments that made
it possible to print out huge numbers of
texts, whereas oil paintings have always
been produced as unique objects.
SKILLS 3 - PARAPHRASING AND SYNONYMS
• Paraphrasing is when the wording changes but the
same meaning is retained. It can be done with
synonyms, changing the grammatical structure and the
use of set phrases.
• IELTS often paraphrases the text in the questions.
IELTS question types that involve using Paraphrasing and
Synonyms:
• Multiple Choice
• Matching Feature
• Matching Sentence Ending.
• Short Answer
• Summary Completion
Example of paraphrased question
A. ingesting
B. yogurt
C. longevity
D. pickled
products
E. wine
F. food
G. kimchi
H. cheese
I. detoxifying
J. vegetables
SKILL 4 - READING FOR DETAIL
• Detailed understanding is necessary for answering specific
questions.
• After you skim and scan the text, if you find the answer in a
paragraph, read that paragraph in more detail. This means
reading the section, or even the whole paragraph, word for
word to fully understand what it says.
The Thames Tunnel was a tunnel built under the River Thames in London. It was
the first subaqueous tunnel ever built and many people were so amazed that
they exaggerated their description of it calling it the Eight Wonder of the World
at the time it was opened.
True/False/Not given Question: The Thames Tunnel was the first tunnel ever
built under a river.
SKILL 5 - INFERRING MEANING FROM CONTEXT
Understanding unknown words or ideas using surrounding
words or sentences. You can looking at the sentences
before the unknown word and the sentences after it.
In Europe, it was traditional to use dyed and painted chicken eggs at Easter, but
a modern custom is to substitute chocolate eggs, or plastic eggs filled with
confectionery such as jelly beans. Easter eggs are a widely popular symbol of
new life in Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, and other Central
European countries where they are concealed in the garden for children to find.
Short Answer Question: Where are Easter eggs hidden for children to find in
Central Europe?
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• Matching Headings • Multiple chioce

(D) For instance, the two-tonnes weighting

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