Always remember that adjectives that end in -ed are used as ‘the effect’ or a cause and that adjectives that end in –ing are usually ‘the cause‘. For example: The …
Fill in the Blanks is quite different than RW Fill in the Blanks because there is more emphasis on informal language, collocation, parts of speech, and abstract meanings, especially metaphors. …
The True/False/Not Given exercise on the IELTS Reading exam allows you to use the same strategy as in Multiple Choice (scanning for keywords), but it is important the test-taker knows …
Thesis: Exercise and education go hand-in-hand says Bradley Gordon. Students who exercised did academically well in class. Antithesis: Don Epstein said exercise is not part of an academic education …
Top-down compared with Bottom-up approaches to reading Top-down emphasizes the importance of what the reader brings to the text whereas Bottom-up emphasizes the written or printed text itself. Top-down …
RW Fill in the Blanks: Test-takers will be asked to complete 5 or 6 of these tasks on the exam. This is the highest scoring part of the Reading section …
Table completion is a common task on the IELTS Reading exam. You are given a table of information, which usually has blanks in it, and you are required to fill …
Reading for Viewpoints: Read the following article from a website. Visitors walking through Carleton High School are often surprised when they pass Bradley Gordon’s French class and see students …
Run-on Sentence A recurring problem that ESL students, as well as native writers, come up against in their writing is the run-on sentence. Definition: This error occurs when sentences lack stopping …
Reorder Paragraph: This is the 3rd highest-scoring task in the Reading section. The two most common paragraph types/genres are anecdotal (story paragraphs) and topical newspaper and magazine articles. Remember …