Parts of Speech, especially nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, are extremely important to know. Parts of speech (articles ‘a’, ‘an’, and ‘the’ are not included in this set) Parts of …
Multiple Choice Single Answer: Remember this is a low-scoring task with only 2 or 3 marks. Multiple Choice Single Answer accentuates the test-taker knowledge of a topic sentence and the …
The summary completion task asks you to fill in blanks at the end of a sentence provided, where the blanks may be filled in from a given list of words …
Listening There are only three (3) types of questions: Question type 1: Specific Detail questions These questions ask the test-taker to remember one specific detail from the audio recording. All …
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 …