"I can't even finish the IELTS reading articles (bitter), is it possible to get a high score?”
Many of my classmates wailed!Because the IELTS reading articles are indeed too difficult!(sighs).
Especially to be:Read 3 articles of about 1000 words in 1 hour, and complete 40 questionsThe point is that the article will also be filled with a lot of difficult words and long difficult sentences, which is really tricky.
Isn't that the only way to improve the accuracy rate is to understand the words of each article?Of course not!Today, the senior sister will take you to see what is the way to improve the accuracy rate and get a high score in IELTS reading!Without further ado, let's get into the text!
Learn to get to the point of the article
When doing IELTS Reading,The most "taboo" thing is to blindly try to understand every word of the articleIELTS Reading is more than just a question of the meaning of each wordA skillful way to read the textIn order to make everyone can make the question smoothly even if they can't finish reading it (referring to you). When reading the article, you should pay attention to a few key aspects that can quickly make a question:
Vocabulary
Vocabulary has always been the foundation of English learning Xi, and the vocabulary mastery requirements for IELTS Reading will be a little different from other tests. If you want to help yourself make a question even when you can't finish reading, you have to focus on the following words:
The first is that you need to memorize moreRead high-frequency vocabulary,It can be accumulated by different topics. And unlike listening vocabulary, for reading, what we need to do is to know what a word looks like and associate its meaning and the different parts of speech as much as possible. In this way, new words can also be guessed through the root and affix to guess the meaning of the word, increasing the probability of correct answers.
Meanwhile, in IELTS Reading,Synonymous substitutionIt is a very important point to investigate, and students need to accumulate a lot in normal times. For example:
shelter = provide shade.However, it does not mean that if you have mastered all of these words, you will have no problem at allStudents may still encounter situations where they do not know words in the process of XiAt this time, don't panic, you can better understand the meaning of the sentence by following the following method:tourist flock = frequent visitors.
goal = objective.
Unknown nouns are directly translated into"What".Names of people you don't know translate directly"There is a person".Verbs that you don't know are translated directly"Whole".
Unknown adjectives translate into:"Something".
Unknown adverbs translated"How".
Long and difficult sentences
And long and difficult sentences are also particularly easy to slow down everyone's reading speed, because the long and difficult sentences in reading are often subordinate sentences with subordinate clauses, and with a few new words, they are basically no different from reading heavenly books, soThe ability to quickly deconstruct long and difficult sentencesIt's also very important.
the possibility that critical analysis, empathy and other deep reading processes could become the unintended 'collateral damage' of our digital culture is not a straightforward binary issue about print versus digital reading.After extracting the main components of the sentence according to this method, you can quickly grasp the gist of the sentence even if you can't finish reading a long and difficult sentence. Students are Xi, encounter long and difficult sentences to analyze the main structure of "subject + predicate + object".to improve the efficiency of reading.In this sentence, the main ingredient (subject-verb-object) is actually only the possibility is not an issue
For those who can't finish the article at present, it is recommended not to use other original materials to increase the burden on themselves, but directly take the IELTS reading articles that are more difficult to read, mark the main structure of long and difficult sentences with different colored pens, and use less time to cross each long and difficult sentence in the examination room.
Read positioning tips
If you can't finish reading, you want to do a few more questions correctly, and it is also important to find the ability to locate the original text according to the keywords. The first step in positioning is to mark out the keywords in the questionFor example, the names of people, places, numbers, times, and professional terms, etc., these words are not easy to replace, which is very suitable for students to locate.
Another category of keywords is the synonymous substitutions mentioned above, which tend to be hidden in the details of the sentence and are difficult to spot when you skim through the text. Therefore, students have to use a combination of skimming and scanning skills to find the sentence or paragraph in which the answer is