寄托天下
查看: 1781|回复: 1
打印 上一主题 下一主题

[考官分享] 【Nick每日分享】雅思阅读预测技巧,教你快速掌握 [复制链接]

Rank: 3Rank: 3

声望
82
寄托币
376
注册时间
2015-4-10
精华
0
帖子
77

寄托兑换店纪念章

跳转到指定楼层
楼主
发表于 2015-6-22 03:01:50 |只看该作者 |倒序浏览
IELTS READING
To be a good IELTS reader you need to practice your prediction skills. Here's how to do it...

How can I predict what the passage is about?



Aim: This tutorial will show you how to look for clues in the reading passages that will help you to predict what the passages are about.

Problems: Although many candidates are good at academic reading tests because they have good test skills, they generally don’t read a lot in their free-time and so this means that they don’t have very good reading skills. Because the passages are usually academic and on unfamiliar topics, students tend to panic and decide that they can’t understand complete the task before they even start to try.

How can I get a general idea of what the passage is about?

Reading passages are not only text, they also have other things included.

These things can be:

•        Titles
•        Paragraph headings
•        Sub-headings
•        Italicized or bold type
•        Pictures
•        Diagrams & other visual information
•        Tables & charts

You can use these things to help you to intelligently guess or “predict” what the passages are going to be about and what kind of information you might expect to find in them. You can do this even if you don’t really know anything about the topic because you will always find that you have some ideas about the topic and, even if those ideas may not be correct, they will help a lot in predicting.

For example, if you look at any pictures in the text and ask yourself:

- What is happening?

- Who is doing it?

- Where is it taking place?

- Why is it being done?

- What is needed to do it?

- What other things do I think I know about this?  
      
From just asking and answering a few simple questions you can get an idea of what kind of information will be contained in the passage. Even if you never think about mountain climbing and know nothing about it, you can still use your general knowledge to come up with some information that will help you to understand the passage more.

Tip: If you follow this simple procedure, you will become more confident about answering the questions and finding the information in the passage because you are applying your own pre-existing knowledge to the problem to find out more information. This is what we do every day when we read something – although we don’t realize it; for example if we are interested in what is happening with Manchester United, we will look at the sports pages of a newspaper to find an article that will give us more information.

Try the same thing with this title:

The Decline of the Postal Service

- What does the postal service do? send mail, parcels, telegrams ...

- Why might it be in decline? internet, telephone, online working ...  

- What vocabulary do I know related to this topic? stamp, postage, ...
   
Further practice

Do the following exercises and this time think of your own questions:   
      
A) Solar Power Wins Out
   
B) Increased Risk of Heart-Disease


Tip: You can do this kind of exercise everyday using an English language newspaper. It is guaranteed to improve your confidence. You can also write out some questions about a newspaper article after you’ve looked at the headings & pictures, but before you read it; and then look to see if you can find the answers in the passage – it’s all very good practice for the test.

Written by the Worldpath Limited. All Rights Reserved.

关于考官Nick

Nick在British Council 工作了10年,是前雅思高级考官,改过无数的雅思考卷,非常清楚考官判分要求。

关于the worldpath

theworldpath.com 是香港政府重點支持的網上教學機構,由美國、英國、加拿大、澳洲的雅思前考官組成,在香港多間中學及大學舉辦雅思課程,學生成績優秀,曾經接受過香港多個媒體報導。

附件: 你需要登录才可以下载或查看附件。没有帐号?立即注册
回应
0

使用道具 举报

Rank: 14Rank: 14Rank: 14Rank: 14

声望
702
寄托币
2191
注册时间
2012-3-14
精华
0
帖子
19045

香港offer勋章 经济offer勋章 寄托22周年 加拿大offer勋章 英国offer勋章 人文版offer勋章 美国offer勋章 19周年勋章 中秋勋章 寄托兑换店纪念章 23周年庆勋章

沙发
发表于 2015-6-23 11:00:27 |只看该作者
6.23日分享
雅思阅读预测技巧

使用道具 举报

RE: 【Nick每日分享】雅思阅读预测技巧,教你快速掌握 [修改]
您需要登录后才可以回帖 登录 | 立即注册

问答
Offer
投票
面经
最新
精华
转发
转发该帖子
【Nick每日分享】雅思阅读预测技巧,教你快速掌握
https://bbs.gter.net/thread-1849243-1-1.html
复制链接
发送
报offer 祈福 爆照
回顶部