How Do You Prepare For The IELTS Reading Test?
• How to Read:Many students are unfamiliar with the idea of adapting their reading habits according to the text and the task. They may have been trained (at school, for example) to read every word slowly and carefully, and not to move on until they have understood everything. It is important to break these habits. The paragraphs which follow outline some of the skills that students need to acquire or practice. • Cohesion:It is important to develop in students an awareness of the different ways that the meanings in one sentence in a text are connected with the meanings in other sentences. There are a number of different ways of showing connections between sentences. These include: • the use of reference words such as pronouns (it, he, she, this, those etc.) and the use of articles (first reference may be with ‘a’ and the next references to the same thing with ‘the’) • the use of words referring to the same thing; either the same word repeated or synonyms or class terms used • the use of
