Reading tips for IELTS

Reading Tips Tip 1 Background Strategies Tip 2 Read the text first Tip 3 Overview read The heading => Summary => key words (signposts, organizing words, conjunctions, ) Tip 4 Read Beginnings and Ends.

Reading Tips Tip 1: Background Strategies Tip 2: Read the text first Tip 3: Overview read The heading => Summary => key words (signposts, organizing words, conjunctions, …) Tip 4: Read Beginnings and Ends *transition sentence: getting you ready for the topic sentence following Tip 5: Check for Signposts (sequencers, transition sentences,…) Tip 6: The quick read approach (Top down/ Overview read) Tip 7: Know about Conjunctions Tip 8:Guess the meaning of words Question answering tips Tip 9:Read the instructions Tip 10: Use common sense: use real world knowledge and experience to predict the answers Tip 11: The scanning Process Identify the scanning words Tip 12: Scanning techniques The scanning word is not always an obvious features such as dates, numbers Sometimes it is “normal word” Tip 13:Think of synonyms and concepts Tip 14: Think about answering order Tip 15: Know the Question Types Multiple-choice Matching information Short answers Table completion Labeling diagrams Gap-fill Sentence completion Tip 16: Eliminate choices Tip 17: Think of type Tip 18: Think of grammar Tip 19: Think of Translation Tip 20: Reading procedure ... Reading Tips Tip 1: Background Strategies Tip 2: Read the text first Tip 3: Overview read The heading... Tip 4: Read Beginnings and Ends *transition sentence: getting you ready for the topic sentence following Tip 5: Check for Signposts (sequencers, transition sentences,…) Tip 6: The quick read... Overview read) Tip 7: Know about Conjunctions Tip 8:Guess the meaning of words Question answering tips Tip 9:Read the instructions Tip 10: Use common sense: use real world knowledge and experience