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Preface
This is a self-study publication with two audio-cassettes for students preparing for
the Academic Module of the International English Language Testing System
(IELTS), which is administered by The British Council, the University of Cambridge
Local Examinations Syndicate (UCLES) and by IELTS Australia.
The book covers the four modules of the IELTS exam: listening, reading, writing and
speaking. Special features of the book are: the reading exercises, the detailed Keys
for these exercises, the wide range of exercises to help you prepare for Writing Task
1, and the detailed Key for the Reading Tests.
The publication may also be used as a course book, or as a supplement to a course
book.
So that you may repeat the exercises in this book, we would advise you to avoid
marking the text.
This new edition incorporates the changes to the speaking module introduced in
July 2001.
Sam McCarter, Julie Easton and Judith Ash
2003
Contents
Page
Preface
iii
Acknowledgements
iv
Listening Module
1
Introduction
2
Listening Test 1
3
Listening Test 2
9
Listening Test 3
15
Listening Test 4
20
Reading Exercises
25
Introduction
26
1. How to read, or how to read efficiently?
28
2. Learning to read organisation
29
3. More about reading organisation
30
4. A summary of functions
31
5. Recognising paragraph types
32
6. Simultaneous functions
34
7. Reading control
35
8. Spot the difference!
36
9. Learning to concentrate
37
10. Predicting organisation 1
38
11. Predicting organisation 2
39
12. Focus on paragraph headings
40
13. Foreground and background information
14. Increasing your reading speed
42
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43
15. More about speed
45
16. Words that slow you down
47
17. Problems with meaning
48
18. An introduction to Yes
50
19. An introduction to No
51
20. Meaning in a text
52
21. Yes, No or Not...