tailieunhanh - The Reading Module

The book is made up of 50 units; a different topic being worked out in each unit. There are 40 questions about each topic. An illustration and a text about which the pupils have to make questions and answers as well as give explanations, complete the unit Couples or groups are made up to discuss, to comment about assertions and to decide whether some things are true or false. | The Reading Module Learn English Online The Reading module When you go to university or college you may be overwhelmed by the amount of reading you are expected to do. You will have to do a lot of this reading on your own and you will need to be able to read discriminatingly. This means you will need to have the skills required to focus in on the information that is important to you and to skim through the information that isn t. The IELTS examination tests your ability to read approximately 2 750 words in a fairly short period of time in order to find out certain information. In both the Academic and the General Training modules you are given 60 minutes to answer a total of 40 questions and each question is worth one mark. Within this time you also have to transfer all your answers onto an answer sheet see page 191 . Academic Reading module The test has three reading passages and each of the passages is accompanied by a set of 13 or 14 questions. The passages will be written in a variety of different styles. Generally. Passage 1 is a more descriptive text while Passages 2 and 3 are discursive and contain some argument. Each passage may have more than one type of question. For example you may be asked to find detailed information in a passage in order to complete sentences you may have to identify views within a passage you may have to understand how something works and complete a diagram or chart. If you can identify the reading skills being tested in each set of questions and if you have a strategy for doing each question type you will have a better chance of completing the Reading test successfully. General Training Reading module The test has three sections. Section 1 contains two or more texts which are based on social situations Section 2 contains two texts based on work- or course-related situations and Section 3 contains one text that tests general reading comprehension. The question types are similar to those in the Academic module. The texts in the first