IELTS ADVANCED

READING
SKILL LESSON 3
Academic Reading Section 3
 Agenda & Materials
• Homework correction + Review
• Review of the Question Types
• Action Plan for IELTS (p.50-57)
• Practice
• Lead-in
• Academic Reading Section 2 (p.102-103)
 Homework correction
READING 1
• 1. municipal
• 2. glamorous
• 3. accommodate
• 4. internalise
• 5. emerge

READING 2
What question types did we cover last meeting?

1. Matching Features/Classification
2. Matching Information
3. Sentence Completion (with wordlist)
4. Yes/No/Not Given
5. Multiple Choice
Academic Reading Section 3

Theory + Short Practices

 Reading Question Types
• Matching Headings
• Summary Completion
• Summary Completion with a Box (wordlist)
• Classification/Matching Features
• Pick from a List/Multiple Choice type 2
Practice: Matching Headings
“The Old Library of Alexandria”
Page 51
 Answers
1 iii
2 global matches world's; times ahead matches the future.
3 There are many present continuous verb forms with future meaning.

4
i. The reference is to population figures in the whole world, not just in China.
ii. The reference to farmland in the paragraph is worldwide, not just in China.
 Answers
• 5. iv
• 6. v
• 7. ii

8.
• i. This is mentioned briefly but is not a key idea.
• iii. Found books are mentioned, but not lost books.
Practice: Summary Completion
with & without a box
“Gold Bugs”
Page 53-54
 Answers

• 9 It will be a noun (countable or singular).

• 10 Noun / singular- could be a place
• 11 Noun /plural - something valuable from the past
• 12 Noun / plural - people, perhaps swimmers or divers
 Answers

• 13 biochemical
• 14 energy
• 15 iron and manganese (not uranium)
• 16 gold chloride
• 17 colour

• 18.
a find it hard to understand
b natural gold deposits form
 Answers

• 19 important algae / expelled / occurs / turns

• 20 important algae being expelled
• 21 coral bleaching
 Answers

• 22 F (in the right place)

• 23 B (number or size of the rooms)
• 24 C (furniture)
• 25 G (in the same way)
• 26 D (number of nurses and doctors)
Practice: Classification
(Matching Features)
“What’s the Difference?”
Page 55-56
Answers
Practice: Multiple Choice type 2
(Pick from a List)
Page 57
 Answers
• 33 & 34 D, E (in any order)
• 35
• D no longer just for kids / it is becoming popular among adults
• E to fight cavities
 Practice Test
Reading Section 3 (p.101-103)
 (optional) Lead-in

Name a scientific experiment you know

Some popular experiments
Some popular experiments
 Controlled experiment
An experiment in which an observer tests a hypothesis by looking for changes
brought on by alterations to a variable.
In a controlled experiment, an independent variable is the only factor that
is allowed to be adjusted, with the dependent variable as the factor that
the independent variable will affect.
 Reading Section 3
Action Plan, p.101-103
Vocabulary
• in lieu of (expression)
• rigorous
• placebo
• randomised control trial
• an arm of a study
• chance
• reassemble
• restorative
• sneer
• wane
 Reading Section 3
Action Plan, p.101-103
• Spend 20 minutes on questions 27-40
 Answers

• 27 vii
• 28 v
• 29 ix
• 30 i
• 31 iv
• 32 iii
• 33 re-offending
 Homework
• Supplementary Book Advanced - Vocabulary section
*Wordlist 3 - Reading (p.214)
*Vocabulary Review 3- Reading (p.258)