cách làm bài thi reading

Hôm nay, Bear xin nói về cách làm bài thi READING của IELTS. 1. Thời gian thi kỹ năng đọc hiểu trong kỳ thi IELTS là 60 phút. 2. Phải đọc tổng cộng là 3 PASSAGES . 3. Tổng cộng số câu hỏi phải trả lời là 40 câu. 4. Khi làm phải chia thời gian: 19 phút để trả lời các câu hỏi của 1 PASSAGE + 1 phút để chuyển đáp án từ trong đề sang tờ ANSWER SHEET => 1 PASSAGE = 20 phút 5. Cách tính điểm: 3 – 2 – 2: 38, 39, 40 câu 9.0 36, 37 câu 8.5 34, 35 câu 8.0 31, 32, 33 câu 7.5 29, 30 câu 7.0 27, 28 câu 6.5 24, 25, 26 câu 6.0 22, 23 câu 5.5 20, 21 câu 5.0 17, 18, 19 câu 4.5 15, 16 câu 4.0 12, 13, 14 câu 3.5 10, 11 câu 3.0 8 , 9 câu 2.5 5, 6 , 7 câu 2.0 3, 4 câu 1.5 1, 2 câu 1.0 6. Cách làm là: - Đọc hết tất cả các câu hỏi liên quan đến PASSAGE đó trước rồi mới đọc PASSAGE + hiểu khoảng 50% y’ của câu hỏi + trí nhớ tốt. - Gạch dưới từ khóa của câu hỏi => nhớ từ khóa => đọc đọan văn => quay lại đọan văn tìm và gạch dưới từ khóa, từ đồng nghĩa, trái nghĩa [ Hiểu trên 50% nội dung của đoạn văn] Ví dụ: Bước 1: đọc câu hỏi: According to the writer, creative people A. are usually born with their talents B. are born with their talents. C. are not born with their talents. D. a well-trodden path. Bước 2: gạch dưới key words According to the writer, creative people A. are usually born with their talents B. are born with their talents. C. are not born with their talents. D. a well-trodden path Bước 3: Đọc đoạn văn + gạch dưới từ khóa để xác định có thể đáp án nằm trong phần nào của đoạn văn: It is a myth that creative people are born with their talents: gifts from God or nature. Creative genius is, in fact, latent within many of us, without our realising. But how far do we need to travel to find the path to creativity? For many people, long way… Ví dụ: phần tô màu xanh ở trên là phần mình có thể đoán được đáp án chính là nằm ở đó, nhờ vào key words ở câu hỏi: creative people, born with talents Khi đã xác định phạm vi đáp án nằm ở đâu trong đoạn văn, tiếp tục đến bước 4. Bước 4: đọc kỹ nguyên câu đó. Trong ví dụ trên, nếu không đọc kỹ, mình sẽ chọn đáp án là B. Nhưng nếu đọc hết câu, sẽ thấy có chữ ‘myth’. ð It is a myth that creative people are born with their talents: Thật là sai lầm khi nghĩ rằng những con người sáng tạo có tài năng bẩm sinh. Note: myth = a commonly believed but false idea Bước 5: chọn đáp án là câu C According to the writer, creative people A. are usually born with their talents B. are born with their talents. C. are not born with their talents. D. a well-trodden path Lời khuyên: 1. ‘Practice makes perfect’ => Hãy luyện tập giải đề thật nhiều thì mới nhanh nhạy đối phó với vấn đề về thời gian. Nhất định phải luyện tập cho mình thói quen: 19 phút là phải xong 1 PASSAGE. Không nên vì 1 câu tìm không ra đáp án, mà suy nghĩ hoài, mất thời gian. Thay vào đó, hãy làm những câu khác. Nếu tập trung vào 1 câu khó mà bỏ lỡ cơ hội trả lời đúng những câu dễ thì uổng lắm. 2. Học 3 từ vựng IELTS đều đặn mỗi ngày vì trong bài reading, những từ này xuất hiện như ‘cát trên sa mạc’ vậy. Ví von vậy để thấy sự lợi hại của quyển sách 22.000 từ này nhé. 3. Nếu không có thời gian, mọi ngừơi chỉ việc luyện quyển: IELTS Reading Tests : nhà xuất bản trẻ - 15.000VND. Hoặc cũng là 10 reading tests này, nhưng khổ to hơn + phía sau mỗi bài, có phần từ vựng cho riêng bài đó (nhà xuất bản tổng hợp TPHCM) : 44.000VND Phía sau quyển sách, có đáp án rất rõ ràng, giải thích vì sao nên chọn A, mà không phải là B [Mà Bear khuyến khích nên sử dụng cuốn khổ to, vì lúc Bear luyện cuốn sách khổ nhỏ, chữ nhỏ, Bear thấy đọc 1 chút là hết ngay cái passage. Đến lúc đi thi, Bear hơi choáng, vì tờ giấy to, chữ to cảm giác đọc hoài không hết! ] 4. Giai đoạn đầu, chỉ nên làm 1 PASSAGE (20 phút) rồi nghỉ ngơi. Khi nào thoải mái rồi làm tiếp. Không nên làm 1 lèo 60 phút (3 passages). Giải khoảng 5 đề như thế , thì bắt đầu tập làm quen với áp lực thời gian trong phòng thi, tức là giải luôn 3 passages trong vòng 60 phút. Mỗi lần làm xong, phải tổng kết xem mình đúng bao nhiêu trên 40 câu. Tính điểm và ghi chú lại. Để mỗi đề, xem mình tiến bộ thế nào. 5. Làm thế nào mà 1 đề, khi giải xong, check đáp án xong, mình phải hiểu rõ tại sao chọn câu đó. Để khi giải lại, phải được từ 8.0 trở lên mới được. Có nhiều bạn hỏi: Như vậy là học thuộc đáp án à? Câu trả lời là không phải! Mà là: phải ly’ giải được tại sao mình lại chọn đáp án đó (do trong bài, đoạn mấy, dòng mấy ). Cách luyện tập như vậy là để pratice cái mind của mình nhanh nhẹn trong việc xử ly’ dữ liệu thôi. 6. Có nhiều dạng câu hỏi lắm: + Matching the two parts of split sentences + Short answer to open questions + Multiple choice questions + Yes/ No/ Not Given Statements + Gap filling exercises + Matching paragraph headings Mai, Bear sẽ post 1 PASSAGE và nói cách làm của từng dạng trong mỗi lần post nhé. TEST 1 – READING PASSAGE 1: Questions 1 - 5 Reading Passage 1 below has 5 paragraphs (A-E). Which paragraph focuses on the information below? Write the appropriate letters (A-E) in Boxes 1-5 on your answer sheet. 1. The way parameters in the mind help people to be creative. 2. The need to learn rules in order to break them. 3. How habits restrict us and limit creativity. 4. How to train the mind to be creative. 5. How the mind is trapped by the desire for order. THE CREATION MYTH A. It is a myth that creative people are born with their talents: gifts from God or nature. Creative genius is, in fact, latent within many of us, without our realising. But how far do we need to travel to find the path to creativity? For many people, long way. In our everyday lives, we have to perform many acts out of habit to survive, like opening the door, shaving, getting dressed, walking to work, and so on. If this were not the case, we would, in all probability, become mentally unhinged. So strongly ingrained are our habits, though this varies from person to person, that, sometimes, when a conscious effort is made to be creative, automatic response takes over. We may try, for example, to walk to work following a different route, but end up on our usual path. By then it is too late to go back and change our minds. Another day, perhaps. The same applies to all other areas of our lives. When we are solving problems, for example, we may seek different answers, but, often as not, find ourselves walking along the same well-trodden paths. B. So, for many people, their actions and behaviours are set in immovable blocks, their minds clogged with the cholesterol of habitual actions, preventing them from operating freely, and thereby stifling creation. Unfortunately, mankind’s very struggle for survival has become a tyranny – the obsessive desire to give order to the world is a case in point. Witness people’s attitude to time, social customs and the panoply of rules and regulations by which the human mind is now circumscribed. C. The groundwork for keeping creative ability in check begins at school. School, later university and then work teach us to regulate our lives, imposing a continuous process of restriction, which is increasing exponentially with the advancement of technology. Is it surprising then that creative ability appears to be so rare? It is trapped in the prison that we have erected. Yet, even here in this hostile environment, the foundations for creativity are being laid; because setting off on the creative path is also partly about using rules and regulations. Such limitations are needed so that once they are learnt, they can be broken. D. The truly creative mind is often seen as totally free and unfettered. But a better image is of a mind, which can be free when it wants, and one that recognises that rules and regulations are parameters, or barriers, to be raised and dropped again at will. An example of how the human kind can be trained to be creative might help here. People’s mind are just like tense muscles, that need to be freed up and the potential unlocked. One strategy is to erect artifitial barriers or hurdles in solving a problem. In this way, they are obliged to explore unfamiliar territory, which may led to some startling discoveries. Unfortunately, the difficulty in this exercise, and with creation itself, is convincing people that creation is possible, shrouded as it is so much myth and legend. There is also an element of fear involved, however subliminal, as deviating from the safety of one’s own thought patterns is very much akin to madness. But, open Pandora’s box, and a whole new world unfolds before your eyes. E. Lifting barriers into place also plays a major part in helping the mind to control ideas rather than letting them collide at random. Parameterrs act as containers for ideas, and thus help the mind to fix on them. When the mind is thinking laterally, and two ideas from different areas of the brain come or are brought together, they form a new idea, just like atoms floating around and then forming a molecule. Once the idea has been formed, it needs to be contained or it will fly away, so fleeting is its passage. The mind needs to hold it in place for a time so that it can recognise it or call on it again. And then the parameters can act as channels along which the ideas can flow, developing and expanding. When the mind has brought the idea to fruition by thinking it through to its final conclusion, the parameters can be brought down and the idea allowed to float off and come in contact with other ideas. Questions 6 – 10 6. According to the writer, creative people A. are usually born with their talents B. are born with their talents C. are not born with their talents D. are geniuses 7. According to the writer, creativity is A. a gift from God or nature B. an automatic response C. difficult for many people to achieve [...]... in this case 38 Answer: D The answer is in the last paragraph 39 Answer: C The answer is in paragraph 2 The important thing here is to link correctly the names to the themes 40 Answer: A The answer is in paragraph 4 Note how the answers in this section are jumbled; otherwise it would be too easy! TEST 2 – READING PASSAGE 1: You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 – 14, which are based on Reading. .. geographical The answer is in paragraphs 8 and 9: now that location is no longer geographical An example of this is the mobile phone The important thing here is to recognise the link between the paragraphs READING PASSAGE 3: You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 31 – 40, which are based on Reading Passage 3 below NATIONAL CUISINE AND TOURISM 1 To an extent, agriculture dictates that every country... problem with creativity is that people think it is impossible 14.The act of creation is linked to madness 15.Parameters help the mind by holding the ideas and helping them to develop Hôm nay Bear post: answers + phần giải thích: KEY TO TEST 1 – READING PASSAGE 1: Questions 1 – 5: This type of question is a variation of paragraph headings There are no distracters in this section, which makes it much easier... like 15 Answer: Yes The answer is in the latter half of paragraph E READING PASSAGE 2: Nhớ: Khi làm phải chia thời gian: 19 phút để trả lời các câu hỏi của 1 PASSAGE + 1 phút để chuyển đáp án từ trong đề sang tờ ANSWER SHEET => 1 PASSAGE = 20 phút Now enjoy You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 16 – 30, which are based on Reading Passage 2 below LOCKED DOORS, OPEN ACCESS 1 The word, ‘security’,... of techonology The statement is a paraphrase of this section Note B and C are basically the same; it is, therefore, not possible to have either of these two alternatives as your answer Watch out for this feature in multiple choice questions 10 Answer: D The answer is in paragraph C: Is it surprising then that creative ability appears to be so rare? This is question and has the same meaning as the... food from culture This view of culture and food places the ‘home’ as the cultural centre Continental European eating habits may contradict this notion by their general acceptance of eating out as part of family life Following the principle that culture needs behavioural reinforcement, if everyone ‘eats’ out’ on a regular basis, irrespective of social and economic differentiation, then this might constitue... recognises that rules and regulations are parameters 12 Answer: Not Given There is no reference to this statement in the passage 13 Answer: Yes The answer is in paragraph D: The difficulty in this exercise and with creation itself is convincing people that creation is possible The answer is a paraphrase of this part of the text Compare number 7 above 14 Answer: Yes The answer is at the end of paragraph... being no objections The second piece of background information develops this further comparing tea/coffee with alcohol The paragraph then comes back to the central issue of there being few objections, by giving the example of a group who object to tea Use this mechanism to look at the other paragraphs here and elsewhere 6 Answer: xii This paragraph focuses on tea drinking in Africa The answer is not ix,... communicate without ever actually talking to one another If we are unfortunate enough to contact an organization with a sophisticated touch-tone dialling system, we can buy things and pay for them without ever speaking to a human being 8 To combat this closing in on ourselves we have the Internet, which opens out communication channels more widely than anyone could possibly want or need An individual’s electronic... which their food and eating habits have a social and cultural meaning beyond the behaviour itself This argument, however, could be interpreted to imply that the country with the greatest proportion of meals taken outside the home would be the one in which the national cuisine is more embedded in social culture This is a difficult position to maintain because it would bring America, with its fast-food culture