IELTSGeneralTrainingReadingOverviewteachersnotes

Description AnactivitytointroducetheGeneralTrainingReadingpaperandfamiliarisestudentswithits mainfeatures Timerequired: Additional materials required: Aims: Procedure 1. Handoutasamplereadingpaperandhandbookpage7toeachpairofstudents. Givethemafewminutestolookthroughthem. 2. Collectthesamplereadingpapersandhandbooksbackin.Putstudentsintonew pairs.Askonestudentineachpairtodescribewhatthereadingpaperconsistsof. Theirpartnerlistensandattheendaddsanyotherinformationtheycanremember. 3. Handouttheworksheet.Askstudentstolookatthe10statementsontheworksheet ontheirownanddecidewhetherthestatementsaretrueorfalse. 4. Oncetheyhavefinished,askthemtocomparetheiranswersinpairsanddiscuss anydifferences.Handoutthereadingpaperandhandbookagainsothattheycan referbacktoitasnecessary. 5. Gothroughthestatementsasagroupanddiscussanyqueries. 6. Putstudentsintogroupsofthreeorfouranddirectstudentsbacktothereading paperforquestionsC)andD).Askthemtodiscussthefollowingquestions: A) HowoftendoyoureadinEnglish? B) WhatkindsoftextdoyoureadinEnglish? C) Whatwillbeeasyordifficultinthispaperandwhy?(Difficultthingsmaybe guessingunknownwordsreadingquicklyunderstandingsynonyms.) D) Willyoureadallthetextsinthesameway?(noyoumustlearnhowtoskim, scanandreadindetail) E) Howcanyouimproveyourperformanceonthispaper?(Practiseusingawide rangeoftextsreadingwithtimelimitsreadingwithdifferentpurposes,e.g.to findthemainpointofeachparagraph,toidentifyfactandopinion,tolookfor cohesivedevicesetcguessthemeaningofwordsfromcontextpractisethinking ofsynonymsandparaphrasing.) 7. Monitorandnoteanyinterestingpointsforlaterdiscussion. 8. Holdawholeclassdiscussioncoveringeachofthequestionsandanyotherpoints thatcameupinthegroupdiscussions. 50minutes samplereadingpaper handbookpage7

TofamiliarisestudentswiththeGeneralTrainingReadingpaper

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IELTSGeneralTrainingReadingOverviewanswerkeys
KeytoClassroomActivity 1. ThetotalnumberofitemsmayvaryFalse.Thetotalnumberofitemsis40. 2. TherearethreesectionsTrue. 3. ThereisonlyonepassageineachsectionFalse.Section1maycontaintwoor threetextsorseveralshortertextssuchasadvertisements.Section2usually comprisestwotexts.Section3istheonlysectionwherethereisjustonetext. 4. Eachitemisworth1markTrue. 5. Section3ismoredifficultthansection1True.Thetextsarelongerandmore complex.Infacteachsectiongetsincreasinglydifficult. 6. EachsectionhasonlyonetasktypeFalse.Avarietyoftasktypesareusedineach section. 7. ThefirstsectioncontainstextsaboutsocialtopicsTrue. 8. ThesecondsectioncontainstextsaboutgeneraltopicsFalse.UntilApril2009,this sectionwillcontaintextsabouttrainingandwelfare:trainingsurvival.FromMay 2009,thissectionwillfocusonworkplacesurvival,aspertheexamplesgivenin tasktypes4and5.Thethirdsectionisgeneralreading. 9. Textsaretakenfromawiderangeofsources:e.g.notices,advertisements,official documents,timetablesetc.True. 10. PoorspellingandgrammararepenalisedTrue.Takecarewhenwritingonthe answersheet. 11. ScoresaregiveninbothhalfandwholebandsTrue. 12. YoumaybeaskedtolabeladiagramTrue.Thisisoneofthetasktypes. 13. YoumustwriteyouranswersonthequestionpaperFalse.Youmustwriteyour answersontheanswersheet. 14. Youhaveextratimeattheendofthe60minutetesttocheckyouranswersFalse. Thetestis60minuteslongbutyouarenotgivenextratimeattheendtocheckyour answersortotransferthemtotheanswersheet. 15. YoucantakeadictionaryinwithyouFalse.YoucantakeNOreferencematerialin withyou.

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IELTSGeneralTrainingReadingOverviewStudentsWorksheet
FindouthowmuchyouknowaboutIELTSGeneralTrainingReading.Lookthroughthe followingstatementsanddecidewhethertheyareTrueorFalse. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Thetotalnumberofitemsmayvary. Therearethreesections. Thereisonlyonepassageineachsection. Eachitemisworth1mark. Section3ismoredifficultthansection1. Eachsectionhasonlyonetasktype. Thefirstsectioncontainstextsaboutsocialtopics. Thesecondsectioncontainstextsaboutgeneraltopics. Textsaretakenfromawiderangeofsources:e.g.notices,advertisements,official documents,timetablesetc. Poorspellingandgrammararepenalised. Scoresaregiveninbothhalfandwholebands. Youmaybeaskedtolabeladiagram. Youmustwriteyouranswersonthequestionpaper. Youhaveextratimeattheendofthe60minutetesttocheckyouranswers. Youcantakeadictionaryinwithyou.

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