Read the paragraphs on the left, then click on the most suitable heading from the list on the right for each paragraph. There are more headings than paragraphs, so you will not use them all. Paragraph A One important idea in economics is supply and demand. This means that the price of something is decided…
One of the most intriguing sections of the exam, the Reading question section is all about concentration and time management. It is a tricky one as you have a lot to do in a span of 60 minutes that are available at hand as IELTS reading exam time. There are three different passages of reading…
What makes a good reader? While reading a lot helps, it’s important to develop your learners’ strategies for reading effectively. Cambridge English Qualifications have been designed to help learners develop the different reading skills they need in the real world, progressing step by step from reading short simple texts to understanding complex texts and abstract…
IELTS Reading Answers Part One IT WAS the summer, scientists now realize, when felt. We knew that summer 2003 was remarkable: global warming at last made itself unmistakably Britain experienced its record high temperature and continental Europe saw forest fires raging out of control, great rivers drying of a trickle and thousands of heat- related…
In this tutorial, ex-examiner Robert answers true-false not given questions in the IELTS Reading test. We look at:
Of course, the more you read, the more new vocabulary you see. And when you see a new word or phrase in a text, you’re often motivated to check or work out what it means so that you can understand what you’re reading. This is the principle the advice is based on. What’s missing from…
Getting Band 8 in IELTS reading is a difficult task but not impossible. For achieving 8 Band, you must concentrate a lot and have a prior sound strategy in your mind that could be implemented well on the day of your IELTS exam. If you are giving IELTS Academic exam, you must score 35 out…
Part Four The first written language was the Sumerian cuneiform. Writing mainly consisted of records of numbers of sheep, goats, cattle, and quantities of grain. Eventually, clay tablets were used as a writing surface and were marked with a reed stylus to produce the writing. Thousands of such clay tablets have been found in the…
IELTS Reading Answers Part One Malaria. Bad air. Even the word is Italian, and this horrible disease marked the life of those in the peninsula for thousands of years. Giuseppe Garibaldi’s wife died of the disease, as did the country’s first Prime Minister, Cavour, in 1861. Yet by 1962, Italy was officially declared malaria-free, and…