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The document provides an overview of the IELTS Reading and Listening tests. It discusses the format, timing, and types of questions in each section. For Reading, it covers skills like surveying, skimming, and strategies for completion questions. For Listening, it discusses form completion questions, name spelling practice, and strategies for predicting context and answers. The document uses examples, instructions, and practice questions to illustrate each component of the Reading and Listening tests.

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Lesson 2.1

The document provides an overview of the IELTS Reading and Listening tests. It discusses the format, timing, and types of questions in each section. For Reading, it covers skills like surveying, skimming, and strategies for completion questions. For Listening, it discusses form completion questions, name spelling practice, and strategies for predicting context and answers. The document uses examples, instructions, and practice questions to illustrate each component of the Reading and Listening tests.

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LESSON 2

READING - LISTENING
IELTS Hieu Minh
AGENDA (READING)

1. Introduction
2. Reading skills
3. Completion questions
4. Practice
INTRODUCTION
Introduction 4

ACADEMIC READING
• The Reading test consists of 3 different texts (800~1000 words/text) with a total of 40
questions
• Time: 60 mins
• The texts are authentic and academic in nature, but written for a non-specialist
audience. They are similar to the types of texts you maybe expected to read as part of
an undergraduate course. They style may be descriptive or argumentative/discursive
and at least one text contains detailed logical argument. Texts may contain
illustrations. If a text contains technical terms, a simple glossary is provided. The 3
texts are graded from easiest to most difficult. Each text will have 12 – 14 questions
Introduction 5

ANSWER THE QUESTIONS


• How many texts does the Reading test consists of? How many questions?
• How much time do you have to complete the test?
• Are the texts written for specialist or non-specialist audience?
• What are the styles of the texts?
• Which text is the easiest (1, 2 or 3)? Which one is the hardest?
• How many questions does each text have?
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WHY WE FAIL?
7

WHY WE FAIL?
8
Task 1 9

DISCUSS THE FOLLOWING SCENARIOS

a) You are casually looking around in a bookshop (or online) looking for
something to read. What do you look at?

b) You are looking at a news website or newspaper and you see an article
that you think might be interesting. What do you do?

c) You are looking at your email inbox for an important email. What do
you look for?
Reading skills 10

MATCH EACH READING SKILLS WITH ITS DESCRIPTION

Surveying a) Reading a text very quickly to get the general


understanding and to get an idea of the organisation
of the text.
Skimming b) Reading a text very quickly to find specific
information such as numbers, names, dates, terms, etc.

Scanning c) Looking at a text very quickly before reading to


get an idea of lay-out: title, pictures, graphs,
headings, glossary etc.
SURVEYING A TEXT
Surveying 12

SURVEYING THE TEXT (20S) THEN ANSWER


THESE QUESTIONS
1. Does the text have a title?
2. sub-headings?
3. diagrams or pictures?
4. a glossary?
5. How long is the text? - ½ page ¾ page 1 page
SKIMMING FOR GIST
Skimming for gist 14

• You have 60 seconds to SKIM the same text by


locating, reading and underlining the topic sentence
in each paragraph.
• As you skim, you can make notes of the paragraph’s
gist.
COMPLETION QUESTIONS
TASK INFORMATION
• Test takers are given a summary of a section of the text, and are
required to complete it with information from the text. The
summary will usually be of only one part of the passage rather
than the whole. The given information may be in the form of:
sentences, a summary, a note, a table, a flow chart. The answers
tend to but do not always occur in the same order as in the text.

• If test takers write more than the number of words asked for, they
will lose the mark.
Completion Questions 17
Completion questions 18

LOOK AT QUESTIONS 1 – 8 (PAGE 5). ANSWER THE


FOLLOWING QUESTIONS BEFORE READING

a) What type of completion question is this (sentence/ summary/


diagram/ note…)?
b)What guidance is provided by the instructions?
c) What clues are there to help you identify what’s missing?
d)What would you look for in the text?
e) Predict possible answers for question 1.
Strategy 19

COMPLETE THE STRATEGY


• Step 1: Familiarize Quickly
Read the question set to get an overall idea.
• Step 2: Check instructions
How many words can be written?
• Step 3: Find clues, identify keywords in the question and match with the text
Read around the blanks. Think of parts of speech/possible answers.
Underline the keywords in the questions
• Step 4: Locate the right part of the text
Read around the right part and choose the answer.
• Step 5: Cross-check and write the answers
Make sure it fits grammatically and is right number of words.
Practice 20

ANSWERS FOR THE LIFE OF THE BEE-EATER

1. flying insects 5. predators


2. poison 6. tunnels
3. river valleys 7. chicks
4. Africa 8. pesticides
Practice 21

ANSWERS FOR THE TOURISM IN NEWZEALAND

1. update 5. season
2. environment 6. accommodation
3. captain 7. blog
4. films
AGENDA (LISTENING)

1. Introduction
2. Listening skills
3. Part 1 Listening questions
4. Practice
ACADEMIC LISTENING
• The Listening test consists of 4 separate parts with a total
of 40 questions
• Time: 30 mins (+10 mins to transfer for your answer)
• Part 1 & 2 are set in social context and Part 3 & 4 are set
in an academic context. There are 10 questions for each
part. You may have between 1 - 3 different tasks/part.
• You will hear the text ONCE ONLY.
Introduction 24

ANSWER THE QUESTIONS


• How many tests does the Listening test consists of? How many questions?
• How much time do you have to complete the test?
• What is the main difference between Part 1-2 and Part 3-4?
• How many tasks does each part have?
• How many questions does each part have?
LISTENING PART 1
In the Listening test Part 1, test takers will hear a
conversation between two people set in an everyday
social context, for example, a conversation about travel
arrangements. There are 10 questions, and they are in
the same order as the audio recording. The recordings
are heard only once.
The question types are usually Form/Table Completion.
Form completion 26
NAME SPELLING
HOW DO YOU PRONOUNCE THESE
COMMON NAME IN ENGLISH?

1. Charles 5. Neil
2. Daniel 6. Stephen
3. Samuel 7. Catherine
4. Rachael 8. Zoe
Name Spelling 29

NAME SPELLING PRACTICE

Turn to page 5. You will hear 10 different names.


Listen and write down what you hear.
Name spelling 30

ANSWERS
1. David Darwin 6. Mr Frank Allenson
2. Mrs Alice Smith 7. A R Beevers
3. Balthazar Jones 8. James Chichester
4. Sara Bartholomew 9. Mary Schooling
5. Sean Bean 10. Sir Paul McKellen
Name Spelling 31

NAME SPELLING PRACTICE

Turn to page 6. You will hear 10 different addresses.


Listen and write down what you hear.
Name spelling 32

ANSWERS
1.150 Church Street 6.Flat 2, 24 Sleet Street
2.68C Bridge Lane 7.63 Green Avenue
3.52 Burlington Road 8.54 Station Road
4.3 West Street 9.102 Seaview Crescent
5.94A Notts Way 10. 41 Drummond Square
PREDICTING CONTEXT
AND ANSWERS
Predicting context

FROM THE INFORMATION ON THE FORM,


ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS

a) What is the conversation about?


b) Who do you think the speakers will be?
Predicting answers 35

Look at the form and questions 1-10. For each of the gaps,
decide what kind of information you need to listen out for.
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STRATEGY FOR COMPLETION QUESTIONS

• Step 1: Familiarize Quickly


Read the question set to get an overall idea of the topic and context.
• Step 2: Check instruction
How many words can be written?
• Step 3: Identify keywords in the question & predict
Read around the blanks. Think of parts of speech/possible answers.
• Step 4: Listen
Listen and choose the answer.
• Step 5: Cross-check and write the answer.
Make sure it fits grammatically and is right number of words.
Practice 37

ANSWERS

1. Leo Blucher 6. 200


2. Blumengasse 7. kitchen
3. 431 211 057 8. (the) sea
4. 1st / 1 9. quiet
5. nine days/ 9 days 10. parking space
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LET’S RECAP
READING LISTENING

• Overview of Reading test • Overview of Listening test

• Surveying • Name spelling

• Skimming for gist • Predicting context and answers

• Strategy for Completion • Strategy for Completion


Questions Questions
THANK YOU!

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