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IELTS WRITING TIPS IELTS Writing: Task response/Task achievement IELTS Writing: Grammar – improve your English and IELTS writing IELTS Writing – Coherence & Cohesion – Improve your English & IELTS Writing IELTS preparation: Power Writing

Academic Reading Duration: 60 minutes   Downloadable Academic Reading sample tasks Academic Reading – Matching features Academic Reading  – Table completion Academic Reading – Flow-chart completion (selecting words from the text) Academic Reading  – Identifying information (True False

Academic Reading sample task – Matching features [Note: This is an extract from an Academic Reading passage on the development of rockets. The text preceding this extract explored the slow development of the rocket and

Academic Reading sample task – Table completion [Note: This is an extract from an Academic Reading passage on the subject of dung beetles. The text preceding this extract gave some background facts about dung beetles,

Sample Academic Reading Flow-chart Completion (selecting words from the text) [Note: This is an extract from a Part 3 text about the effect of a low-calorie diet on the ageing process.] Adapted from ‘The Serious

Sample Academic Reading Identifying Information (True/False/Not Given) [Note: This is an extract from a Part 1 text about the scientist Marie Curie.] Adapted with permission from Encyclopaedia Britannica, © 2007 by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. The

Sample Academic Reading Matching Headings [Note: This is an extract from a Part 2 text about the physics of traffic behaviour.] © 2000 The Atlantic Media Co., as first published in The Atlantic Magazine. All

Sample Academic Reading Multiple Choice (more than one answer) [Note: This is an extract from a Part 1 text about older people in the workforce.] © The Economist Newspaper Limited, London, 1999 Clearly, when older

Sample Academic Reading Multiple Choice (one answer) [Note: This is an extract from a Part 1 text about older people in the workforce.] © The Economist Newspaper Limited, London, 1999 The general assumption is that

Sample Academic Reading Summary Completion (selecting from a list of words or phrases) [Note: This is an extract from a Part 3 text about language.] © Guy Deutscher, Random House Adult Trade Publishing Group. 2006