Narration: In the IELTS reading test, you will need to be very careful of reference words. That is, words like this, that, he, she, it and they. They refer back to previous parts of the reading passage and tell you exactly what the current sentence is talking about....
Spend some time looking at the text below and try to work out what the missing words could be. NB You are not looking for an exact word, just an approximate idea of what the word would be. There are, of course, climatic reasons to explain why many areas of the earth...
Narration: A common difficulty in the IELTS reading test is when you find a word that you do not recognise. Many candidates make the mistake of spending some considerable time reading the word and the sentence it is in trying to understand what it means. This, of...
If you find a word you don’t know during the IELTS test, what you would do? Ignore it? Keep reading and hope you can work it out? Finding vocabulary that you don’t know in the middle of your reading test can be a significant problem, so you need a plan for...
