IELTS Advantage - Reading Skills : ebook

IELTS Advantage - Reading Skills



The IELTS Reading test
Unit 1 Full of energy
Getting started
Spotlight on language: energy collocations; working from context
Spotlight on exam skills 1: multiple choice
Vocabulary builder 1: building your bank of words and phrases
Spotlight on exam skills 2: paragraph headings;producing a paragraph-heading question
Vocabulary builder 2: energy idioms; modifiers and intensifiers

Unit 2 Health, wealth and happiness
Getting started
Spotlight on language: health and happiness collocations
Spotlight on exam skills 1: skimming and scanning;
sentence completion; word building; dealing with new words
Vocabulary builder: paraphrase practice
Spotlight on exam skills 2: speed reading; paraphrase practice; identifying text types; skimming for style; skimming for content; sentence completion

Unit 3 Communication
Getting started
Vocabulary builder 1: communication vocabulary;working from context
Spotlight on exam skills 1: short-answer questions;matching headings
Spotlight on language: prefixes
Spotlight on exam skills 2: topic sentences;word-building practice; mutiple choice; pick from a list
Vocabulary builder 2: prepositional phrases; organizing words

Unit 4 Work and money
Getting started
Vocabulary builder 1: jobs and professions
Spotlight on exam skills 1: identifying what is required; looking at words in context; dealing with unknown words
Vocabulary builder 2: paraphrase practice; choosing words from a list
Spotlight on exam skills 2: matching names; word building; matching sentences

Unit 5 Society and social issues
Getting started
Vocabulary builder: social issues; word building
Spotlight on exam skills 1: summary completion; exam practice
Spotlight on language: forms with –ing; active and passive infinitives
Spotlight on exam skills 2: note completion

Unit 6 The world around us Getting started 
Spotlight on exam skills 1: table completion
Vocabulary builder: verbs of change; processes
Spotlight on exam skills 2: flow-chart completion
Spotlight on language: conditional practice; sentence completion; useful expressions with if
Spotlight on exam skills 3: table completion; expressions with earth

Unit 7 Sell, sell, sell Getting started 
Vocabulary builder 1: advertising
Spotlight on exam skills 1: True / False / Not Given
Vocabulary builder 2: lifestyle; collocation practice
Spotlight on exam skills 2: True / False / Not Given
Spotlight on language: paraphrase practice
Spotlight on exam skills 3: True / False / Not Given; vocabulary development

Unit 8 The road to success
Getting started
Spotlight on exam skills 1: Yes / No / Not Given
Vocabulary builder: positive and negative expressions; success and failure
Spotlight on language: understanding the author’s point of view; patterns in a text
Spotlight on exam skills 2: what is the author saying?; Yes / No / Not Given

Unit 9 Networks
Getting started
Spotlight on language 1: describing groups
Spotlight on exam skills 1: classifying
Vocabulary builder: words in context
Spotlight on language 2: oppositions and contrasts; comparing and contrasting
Spotlight on exam skills 2: exam practice

Unit 10 Sport, leisure and time
Getting started
Spotlight on exam skills 1: labelling a diagram; question-type review
Vocabulary builder: working with context
Spotlight on language: chronology; paraphrase practice
Spotlight on exam skills 2: exam practice
Answer key

Useful websites for IELTS Reading practice 
How this book will help you with the other IELTS papers
Vocabulary skills
Answer-sheet skills
Dictionary skills