Board Race. There are 15 questions. All of the questions are from pages 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14. Work as a team to find the answers in your book. Then write the answer on the board. Only one team member may go up to the board at a time. You may not bring this piece of paper or your textbook with you to the board. The first team to get the correct answers to all 15 questions up on the board will get a prize.
1. Do you ever scan in everyday life? Can you give an example?
2. What are 4 different types of questions you may encounter on the reading test?
3. What can help you grasp the general meaning of the text?
4. The total word length of all 3 texts combined is between __________ and __________ words.
5. How many questions are there in total?
6. True or False: All the reading questions will be based on the same task type?
7. The reading passages will be targeted at which audience?
8. How long will the reading test last?
9. Will you have extra time to transfer your answers onto the answer sheet?
10. In the IELTS test, you won’t have time to read the whole passage carefully. Therefore you should find the answers quickly using a combination of __________ and __________ reading.
11. When you skim, you should read _________________ especially closely, because these sentences will give you an overview of the text.
12. When looking for specific information in the reading text to answer questions, you need to __________ the passage to locate relevant keywords.
13. When scanning, you shouldn’t always expect to find an exact match between the reading passage and the exam question. You need to look for __________ as well.
14 How many passages are in the reading test?
15. What involves running your eyes over the text quickly to get a general idea of the text?
Answers:
1. Do you ever scan in everyday life? Can you give an example?
Yes. Example train time table
2. What are 4 different types of questions you may encounter on the reading test?
matching headings to paragraphs, short answer questions, multiple choice and sentence completion
3. What can help you grasp the general meaning of the text?
titles, captions, photos and illustrations
4. The total word length of all 3 texts combined is between __________ and __________ words.
2,000 and 2,750
5. How many questions are there in total?
40
6. True or False: All the reading questions will be based on the same task type?
False
7. The reading passages will be targeted at which audience?
general, non-specialist audience
8. How long will the reading test last?
1 hour
9. Will you have extra time to transfer your answers onto the answer sheet?
no
10. In the IELTS test, you won’t have time to read the whole passage carefully. Therefore you should find the answers quickly using a combination of __________ and __________ reading.
skim and scan
11. When you skim, you should read _________________ especially closely, because these sentences will give you an overview of the text.
topic sentences
12. When looking for specific information in the reading text to answer questions, you need to __________ the passage to locate relevant keywords.
scan
13. When scanning, you shouldn’t always expect to find an exact match between the reading passage and the exam question. You need to look for __________ as well.
synonyms
14 How many passages are in the reading test?
3
15. What involves running your eyes over the text quickly to get a general idea of the text?
skim