Every candidate feels that the IELTS Reading test is tough and they have a very short amount of time to answer a large number of questions on very complicated texts. You need to master the reading skills to get a 7 Band Score or higher and have a range of strategies prepared in order to tackle it. Here are some tips:
1. Read a lot of Academic texts
Develop a habit of reading in your free time! The IELTS texts are “general academic texts”. This implies that they are obtained from sources such as textbooks and specialist magazines and journals. In case you are not familiar with reading such kind of texts in English then you need to start reading them so that you become familiar with the words and language also with the structure used when you meet them in the exam. The three typical sources for IELTS Reading texts are the National Geographic, the New Scientist and the Economist.
2. Focus
Your focus should be on the text first, then on the questions! Only if you have a good understanding of the text, you can answer the questions more precisely and effectively.
3. Be able to Categorize
IELTS exam writers select a range of specific type of texts. You need to learn to recognize the type of text you are reading. It will help you predict its structure and you will be able to understand it more quickly. There are four types of IELTS Reading texts – A) analytic texts that will discuss the reasons why something happened or make recommendations or explain a concept B) descriptive texts that describe a situation, explain how something is done or categorize something C) discursive texts in which different opinions are expressed about an issue and D) narrative texts that explain a chronological sequence of events.
4. Skimming
Develop the ability to skim. Skimming means to read quickly by skipping the unimportant words like prepositions and ignoring the difficult words that you don’t have to understand. You should do this to get a general idea about a text or a paragraph or while intensively searching for the answer of a question.
5. Scanning
You must learn to scan. Scanning is exactly what you do when you look for a price in advertising text or a name in a telephone book. While scanning you do not actually need to read the text but move your eyes quickly over it. You can scan either left to right or right to left, from top to bottom or bottom to top. You should do this to find out the location of answers in the texts looking out for easy to spot words like numbers, dates and words beginning with capital letters such as place names.
6. Structure
Learn to recognize paragraph structure. This involves spotting the relationship between main ideas and supporting ideas in a paragraph. Paragraphs are mostly descending i.e., they start with the main idea somewhere near the start and develop from there, however some, frequently first and the last paragraphs of the texts, are ascending – the main idea is found to be located towards the end. This can prove to be helpful particularly when matching the headings to the paragraphs.
7. Overview
Get the overview of a text before beginning with the questions. Do this by reading the title and the subtitle as well as focusing on the beginnings and ends of paragraphs. This will help you process the information in a text.
8. Similar phrases
Develop the skill to spot similar phrases. There are different ways of expressing the same thing, such as, “I like to ski” and “skiing is enjoyable”. Many questions, for example, YES NO NOT GIVEN questions and gap fills, test your ability to match up a parallel phrase in the task with its equivalent in the text.
9. Stop panicking
Don’t panic when you face an unknown or difficult word. IELTS texts are packed with highly specialized vocabulary and therefore you are advised to read relevant texts beforehand to prepare. Skip over difficult words which are unnecessary for your understanding of the text. For words you need to understand, practice trying to guess their meaning using the overall context of the text.
10. Time management
Manage time in the exam. Most of the IELTS candidates complain about running out of time in the third reading section. Each text should take you about 20 minutes (the examiner will bring it to your notice when 20 minutes have passed). Never spend too long on a single question – either guess the answer if you don’t know the answer exactly or skip the question and return to it later. Also, if you feel you are running out of time, tackle questions like gap fills before attempting “easy-to-guess” tasks.
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Almost everyone is influenced by celebrities and idolize them. Ordinary people try to copy famous personalities and celebrities by seeing them on TV or in the newspapers. They try to behave or look like them. There are multiple reasons for this.
Firstly, celebrities set the trend and then normal public follows that trend blindly to look fashion forward. Today everyone wants to be a fashion icon. So, they copy famous personalities to look good. Also, celebrities make everything look beautiful and people get fooled thinking they might also look good and classy like them. Hence, people end up imitating them. Secondly, people love to be compared with big celebrities. Therefore, be it good or bad, people, specially teenagers try to imitate them in terms of looks, behavior, stunts and materialistic possessions.
It is fine to copy celebrities until it is harmless. Everything works good only in moderation and same goes with imitating famous personalities. Following a trend and trying to copy their fashion styles is completely normal. But, style is something unique for everyone. People should keep in mind their comfort, body type, requirements and life style before blindly copying anything. Moreover, celebrities often set unrealistic beauty standards that become harmful for people to follow. There are cases where young girls starve to get the waist size or the jawline of their favorite celebrities. People need to understand that there is a whole team of experts that make these famous personalities look so flawless all the time. Hence, copying them or comparing yourself with them is unfair.
I would like to conclude by adding that famous personalities have a huge influence in todays world, primarily the new generation. Everyone wants to look like them. We should understand that looking beautiful and being fit it is a part of their job and we should not try to imitate them all the time.
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It has been observed that more people are endeavoring to imitate well-known actors and actresses from the media and other publications such as articles and newspapers. The possible reasons for this are that the masses are huge fans of their favorite stars and get attracted to their lavish lifestyle. However, I believe that it is a negative development as it can only bring the audience temporary happiness and may forget their personality.
Firstly, there are many reasons why people replicate celebrities. One of the primary causes is that the public likes the popular star performances in films and series, appreciates them, gets inspiration, and ultimately becomes their followers. Another reason is that people are captivated by the famous personality's living standard, and they also dream of achieving the same. For example, in India, one man bought the same luxurious car by spending his years of savings just because his favorite star Shahrukh Khan has the same automobile. Sometimes people go beyond limitations to copy celebrities.
Furthermore, duplicating beloved people is very common among the general public; however, it is a negative approach because this can only bring a partial delight to the audience. Moreover, if they want permanent happiness, they have to keep their originality and make a separate recognition in society. For instance, If an individual tries to mimic any celebrity and his lifestyle all the time, he loses his identification. As an example, a young boy who was a follower of Sasha Sobhani on Instagram made an attempt to imitate Sasha's lifestyle. When he was arrested by international police for corruption, his true lifestyle was revealed, and after a few days, the boy committed suicide because of his imitation and acceptance of Sasha as a legend.
In conclusion, I think many people replicate well-known stars because they follow them and are fascinated by their way of life to have a social standing; in respects, it is not a positive development as it brings joy for the time being and they lose their own identity.
Nowadays, in the society,people have tendency to follow professional persons who outstanding sport, film, theatre, music professions. People come to know them from Tv shows, reading journals, articles,, socia media. However their name, fame, popularity, luxiries life style draw others atraction. This essay examines why people follow famous people and attempts to why it is negative aspect.
Firstly there are several reasons for this trend among people to follow celebrities. One main reason is people desire to be famous in the society to live celebrities life. Another reason is people want to grap others attention. For example a person who wears his idol actors t-shirt, he thinks that he would be able to grap attention. On other hand the most of people think if they follow celebrities life, they would be achieve the luxurious lifestyle, wealth.
Actually this passage gives the reality of the world in now days its become a tent the any body follow other famous personality its trend now
Some people like other personal (any famous person ) like the most famous poet of the world 'Dr.ilama Iqbal' a lot of people like to follow they also like the poetry their dreams and wants to make them as like that I'm also the follower of that person I love his poetry people follow and live famous personal even some would lay down their life for that
On the other hand some people follow others only there talent as a person whose singer people like only this songs even they like that person only for his talent
Basically it's not bad to follow a person in my opinion every thing has both positive and negative effect we have to like talents as it
Tv and magazines play an important role in our daily life. These meant to provide information and entertainment to their viewers. With their vast reach nowadays they have evolved into our daily lifestyle and ordinary people generally trend to follow famous people and celebrities being shown through these media.
How is intro
choice of words is good. But this intro is more compatible if one is going to talk about TV and magazines. First line of intro gives impression as essay is about TV and magazines and what impact these have on one's lifestyle.
I am not an expert and keen to know your views about it.
7.5 band answers
Almost everyone is influenced by celebrities and idolize them. Ordinary people try to copy famous personalities and celebrities by seeing them on TV or in the newspapers. They try to behave or look like them. There are multiple reasons for this.
Firstly, celebrities set the trend and then normal public follows that trend blindly to look fashion forward. Today everyone wants to be a fashion icon. So, they copy famous personalities to look good. Also, celebrities make everything look beautiful and people get fooled thinking they might also look good and classy like them. Hence, people end up imitating them. Secondly, people love to be compared with big celebrities. Therefore, be it good or bad, people, specially teenagers try to imitate them in terms of looks, behavior, stunts and materialistic possessions.
It is fine to copy celebrities until it is harmless. Everything works good only in moderation and same goes with imitating famous personalities. Following a trend and trying to copy their fashion styles is completely normal. But, style is something unique for everyone. People should keep in mind their comfort, body type, requirements and life style before blindly copying anything. Moreover, celebrities often set unrealistic beauty standards that become harmful for people to follow. There are cases where young girls starve to get the waist size or the jawline of their favorite celebrities. People need to understand that there is a whole team of experts that make these famous personalities look so flawless all the time. Hence, copying them or comparing yourself with them is unfair.
I would like to conclude by adding that famous personalities have a huge influence in todays world, primarily the new generation. Everyone wants to look like them. We should understand that looking beautiful and being fit it is a part of their job and we should not try to imitate them all the time.
Can anyone check this and provide me a feedback?
Very nice
this model answer was excellent it left me with hope to pass if i had to follow some of the vocabulary used