Online Bootcamp - Meeting 4

How to Improve your Reading for IELTS

Nadya Putri Santoso

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Aspects for Learning English

LISTENING SPEAKING

READING WRITING

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Session 4 Outline

Reading for IELTS

Reading Tips & Tricks

Reading Question Types

How to boost Reading Score

Reading Practice

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IELTS Reading Test
Total questions: 40
60 minutes
3 Reading Passages
Various topics (advanced level)

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Reading Tips & Tricks

Develop Don’t try to

Skim & speed understand
Scan reading the whole
skills passage

Daily practice!
Learn how to
Academic journals,
guess a
articles from BBC News
meaning based
/Harvard Business
on the context
Review / NY Times

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Question Type:
Matching Headings
Skills required:
● understanding the aim of a section
● identifying the difference between a
main idea and supporting points
● understanding the aims of
paragraphs and sections
● Understanding the general content
of paragraphs or sections

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Question Type:
Matching Headings
I. Temperatures on Earth
II. The Greenhouse
III. Creating Global Warming
IV. Use of a Greenhouse
V. Our choices
VI. Greenhouse gases
VII. Earth’s Atmosphere
VIII. Reversing the Damage
IX. Effects of Carbon Dioxide

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Question Type:
Matching Headings

● Read the headings before you read the passage

● There are more headings than you need
● Analyse the headings before trying to match them to sections/paragraphs
● Understand the main point of the paragraph:
○ First sentence
○ Last sentence
○ Scattered
● Differentiate between main points & supporting points
● Trick answer: only explain 1 thing in the paragraph, not the whole meaning. Don’t get fooled!

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Question Type:
True/False/Not Given

● True à the statement matches

the information
● False à the statement contradicts
the information
● Not Given à the specific information
is not found

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Question Type:
True/False/NG

1. The Thames Tunnel was the first

tunnel ever built under a river.

2. The Thames Tunnel was the Eighth

Wonder of the World.

3. People were drawn from all over to

see the Thames Tunnel.

4. The tunnel was used more by

the middle and upper classes.

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Question Type:
Matching
Information

Which section contains the

following info?
1. A way to learn new
methods of
communication

2. A way to socialize

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Question Type: Sentence Completion

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Quick guide to Boost your Score

Read the questions first

It’s all about the keywords

Beware of traps / distractors!

Try to guess the meaning

Types

Mind
Typesthe spelling

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Let’s
Practice!

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William Henry Perkins
link to passage: https://intip.in/b1yq

FALSE

NOT GIVEN
FALSE

TRUE
NOT GIVEN
TRUE
NOT GIVEN

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William Henry Perkins
link to passage: https://intip.in/b1yq

(the) rich
commercial possibilities
mauve

Robert Pullar
France

malaria

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Is There Anybody Out There?
link to passage: https://intip.in/MPgt

iv
vii
i
ii

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Is There Anybody Out There?
link to passage: https://intip.in/MPgt

Several billion years

Radio (waves/signals)

1000

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Is There Anybody Out There?
link to passage: https://intip.in/MPgt

YES

YES

NOT GIVEN

NO

NOT GIVEN

NO

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The History of Tortoise
link to passage: https://intip.in/pThT

plants

breathing, reproduction
gills
dolphins

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The History of Tortoise
link to passage: https://intip.in/pThT

NOT GIVEN

FALSE

TRUE

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The History of Tortoise
link to passage: https://intip.in/pThT

amphibious
3 measurements

half way

Triangular
graph

cluster
dry-land tortoises

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Any
Questions?

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 Thank you
for coming :)
We hope you enjoyed
the class. Good luck!

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