tailieunhanh - Ielts preparationg and practice rading and writing part 3

Instead of trying to answer the Demonstration questions by your¬self, you should follow carefully the steps set out in the How to Answer section. In this way you will develop an understanding of the most efficient test strategies. | Step 2 Read the instructions and the questions make sure you know how you must answer underline the key words in the question and instructions Step 3 Look for the answers scan for key words and synonyms by looking over the text do not read every word numbers and words beginning with capital letters are the easiest to scan for 16 1ELTS Preparation and Practice Section 2 To complete Section 2 of the Reading test successfully you should follow a three-step strategy similar to the one practised in Section 1. Step One Step Two Step Three Survey the text Read the questions Answer the questions by scanning for specific information or Identifying main ideas by skimming In this section you will learn the skill of skimming. Scanning and skimming are used by native speakers to get infonnation from texts more quickly. A common cause of failure in the IELTS Reading test is bad time management resulting in candidates not finishing all the questions. Unless you are a very fast reader you will not have time to read the texts in Sections 2 and 3 carefully from beginning to end. It is however not necessary to do so. You only need to read enough to find the answers to the questions. So for the following demonstration do not read the demonstration text and questions first. Go directly to the How to Answer section on page 20 and refer back to the reading text as instructed. Demonstration Text and Questions THINGS TO EXPECT IN AUSTRALIA A Australia is a relatively safe place something which surveys of overseas students have shown that they value greatly. As in most of the industrialised countries Australia has experienced a serious economic recession making many people unemployed. This has caused a small increase in the amount of petty crime but in comparison with the USA UK Europe or almost anywhere else in the Western world the problem remains limited. B The opportunity to work while studying in order to help cover expenses is one which overseas students welcome. Australia is .