آموزش خواندن و درک مفاهیم آزمون IELTS

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Approaching the IELTS Reading test

Many teachers and books talk about skimming and scanning as key techniques for IELTS reading. But, here we refer to the words 'skimming' and 'scanning' as ‘finding’ in my lessons as they may seem confusing to students. In fact, many students get the wrong answers because they 'skim' too quickly and miss the words that they are looking for. So, forget 'skimming' and 'scanning' and focus on 'finding' and intensive reading as referred to 'understanding' here from now on.

  1. Finding that is reading the text to find words from the question.
  2. Understanding that is when you have found some key words from the question, read that part of the text carefully in order to understand it and get the right answer.

In fact, IELTS reading is really a test of 2 things:

  1. Can you find the part of the text that contains the answer?
  2. Do you understand that part of the text?

Finding: Step I (Skimming)

You need to be able to find the right part of the text quickly. You should practice finding a lot and then decide which words in the question you need to search for. Then, you should try to locate those words (or words with the same or similar meaning) in the text.

While finding words, don’t try to understand every word. Jump from paragraph to paragraph, finding the main point in each paragraph before moving on to the next paragraph, like jumping across stepping-stones in a river. The main point of each paragraph is often, though certainly not always, the first sentence in each paragraph. The sentence with the main point is called the ‘topic sentence’ or ‘main idea’.

When you are looking at sentences to understand the main points, try to find the keywords in the sentence, namely the subject, the verb and the object of the main clause. Try to ignore the other words, particularly the relative clauses and adverbial clauses. Say, for example, you are skimming through the following sentence in a passage:

“Whale oil, rendered from the blubber, was used originally for lamp fuel and later as a principal ingredient of soaps, margarine, paint oils and lubricants.”

While finding words or the main idea, it is enough to understand that ‘this oil’ was used for something. Now, let’s find the main idea in this sentence:

“Tea plants are grown on tea plantations, called gardens or estates, in areas that have a great amount of rainfall and rich loamy soil.”

It is enough to understand that tea plants are grown on/in somewhere/somehow. If you later find a question that relates to this sentence, you can come back and read it more intensively.

 

نویسنده: حمیدرضا باقری

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