IELTS Reading
Tips and techniques
1. Seven basic tips
2. Read better, not faster
3. Don’t skim or scan
4. Find similar words
5. Similar words exercise
6. Notice the vocabulary
7. Three study tips
8. Paraphrasing
9. Keywords
10. Difficult vocabulary
11. False or not given?
12. How questions are made
13. The keyword technique
14. Easy examples of T, F, NG
15. Scanning made me panic
16. Not given
17. Advice for each part
18. Read the first sentence?
19. Stuck on the same score
20. Get to the end
21. Paragraph headings tips
22. Timing
23. A different way to practise
24. The secret to improvement
25. The time problem
26. Importance of underlining
27. Locate then understand
28. Practise GT Reading too!
29. Go deeper, learn more
30. ‘Match the names’ tips
Practice Exercises
True, false, not given
1. Isaac Newton
2. Travel Industry
3. Prison Study
4. Behaviourism
5. Primal Therapy
6. Green Taxes
7. Marshmallow Experiment
8. Linguistics
9. Green Tourism
10. Oil Spill
11. Orcas
12. Diaries
13. The Suzuki Method
14. Sharks
15. Stradivarius
16. Volcanoes
17. Book Review
18. Coffee Consumption
19. Effects of Television
20. Minority Languages
21. Sitting
22. 19th Century Studies
23. Extinction
24. Arthur Schopenhauer
25. Biometrics
26. Multitasking
27. Collocation
28. The Beaufort scale
29. The paper clip
30. Cities and environment
31. Harry Houdini
32. John Dewey
33. Media
34. Library
35. Children and exercise
36. Animal behaviour
37. Florence cathedral
38. Megacities
39. Mars
40. Benefits of exercise
41. Microplastics
42. Geometry
43. Hermit crabs
44. The printing press
45. Fossil
46. Trait theory
47. Talent
48. Photosynthesis
49. Habits
50. ‘Parentese’
51. The Streisand effect
52. Elephant intelligence
Paragraph headings
Which paragraph?
Multiple choice
1. Doggerland
2. Learning Styles
3. The Eiger
4. Pierre de Coubertin
5. The Thames Tunnel
6. Ecotourism
7. Mindset
8. Maps
9. Intelligence Quotient
10. What is wisdom?
11. Ancient tribe
12. Etymology
13. Ethnography
14. Super-Earth
15. Environmental groups
16. Cultivation theory
17. Happiness
18. Corpus
19. Nobel Peace Prize
20. Times tables
21. Old English
22. Computer art
23. Placebo effect
24. Universities
Fill the gaps
1. Insects
2. Creative Writing
3. Simple is Smart
4. Penicillin
5. The Wright Brothers
6. Healthcare Technologies
7. Telecommuting
8. Universities
9. Children’s intelligence
10. Florence cathedral
11. Bilinguals
12. Environment
13. Collecting
14. Humans and animals
15. Animal migration
16. Nocturnal animals
17. Pedestrian zones