snanoi6 IELTS reacing 2: "ese! and not give’ explanation | Onestopendish + Welcome Mahmoud] + My account| + Subseribe now] + Logout Number one for English language teachers IELTS reading 2: 'false' and ‘not given' explanation By Sam McCarter Help students to prepare for the academic reading component of the IELTS exam. Students generally find this type of exercise in the IELTS rather difficult. One reason is that they are used to doing true and false exercises where the false covers false and not given. Then when they come to do true, false ornot given, they cannot make the distinction between the three different types of contradiction and not given. Itis therefore important that students are able to understand what false means in true, false and not given. ‘There are three types of contradictions: statements which are the opposite of the original text. statements which are the opposite of the original text, because they are negative. statements where the information is not the opposite or negative, but the information in the statement contradicts that given in the text. ope Look at the examples below relating to the text and exercises: Example 1 ‘There are plans to increase slightly the space for displaying art at the Uffizi. You can see that the statement is False, because a slight increase contradicts an increase of 100%. Example 2 From the author's point of view, the plan to increase the space for displaying art at the Uffizi gallery is not at all ambitious, You can see that the statement is False, because the negative contradicts the text, which says it is ambitious. Example 3 collection of pictures by Caravaggio now in a small room on the second floor will soon be transferred to larger premises on the first. You can see that the statement is False, because the text states that the paintings are by Caravaggio and his school not by Caravaggio alone. Note that the statement is contrasting one basic piece of information [by Caravaggio], where the original text contains two [by Caravaggio and his school]. Compare this with: ‘The Palazzo degli Uffizi was designed by Giorgio Vasari, who was an artist. ‘The statement is checking one piece of information. It is easy for students to become confused here, because the text states that Vasari was an historian and an artist, but the statement here is only asking if he was an artist [not an artist only excluding the idea of his being an historian]. Readers’ comments (6) Inipihwwwanestapenglsh com Jexamsietsreadngllis-reading-2-flse-and-not given-oxplanation 184782.aricle 12syrarots IELTS reading 2 "se! aetna vert exglanetion | Onestoperdish Web Editor | Fri, 10 Oct 2014 6:09 pm Hi TaniaCME, ‘The reading text is below ‘Related resources’. + TaniaCME | Tue, 7 Oct 2014 7:33 pm ‘Where is the text? + iang13 | Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:39 pm. ‘Where is the text from which these examples originate? + Web Editor | Fri, 27 Jul 2012 5: pm ‘To make this section easier to navigate, we have linked all the related pages under ‘Related resources’. Best wishes, ‘The onestopenglish team + juliette | Sat, 21 Apr 2012 6:35 pm Yes I agree - especially if your computer is slow - I had to print it all out in the end so I could link it together - Think it could be useful to my students - higher level that is + Malvern House | Wed, 5 Oct 2011 7:08 pm Right, so is that last one false or Not Given? (Please link these to the piece for this part of the exam extremely difficult to navigate to the article from here. Not helpful.) Powered by Webstructure. NET Inipihwwwanestapenglsh com Jexamsietsreadngllis-reading-2-flse-and-not given-oxplanation 184782.aricle