From the analysis of the above problems, I summarized the following questions:

Fast reading doesn't pass;

Lack of the concept of overall view;

Failing to grasp the key related words;

Dead set skills;

The context of the IELTS article is not clear.

The first problem is mainly because students usually read too little English, and some students still basically stay at the level of intensive reading of textbooks in high schools or universities. The solution to this problem and the improvement of ability have been clearly stated in my previous blog post, so I won't go into details here.

The second and third questions are actually a problem, which shows that students only pay attention to the details and ignore the overall grasp, especially the understanding of some related words and sequential words such as but, previous years, now, then, Hough, despair, not, instead, and future.

For the stereotyped skills, it is basically difficult for IELTS reading test to directly reflect the general idea of the whole paragraph through the first sentence. Readers are generally required to read through all paragraphs. Therefore, students who only read the first sentence, the second sentence and the last sentence are in a hurry to choose a topic, and the risk is still great. If you want to reduce the reading as much as possible and there is no deviation in judgment, I suggest you make more summaries, especially the summaries of typical articles.

The context of IELTS reading test is nothing more than the following:

Social class

the humanities

technology

Environmental class

History lesson

Health category

Architecture class

What is the context of the article? The context of the article is the writing idea and clue of the article, just like a stem net of leaves, which runs through the whole text.

Among these article categories, especially the first four are the main article types.

For example, there is a typical popular science article on page 7 1 of IELTS 4 in Cambridge, which is about volcanic eruption.

The thread of his article is natural phenomenon-introduction theme-formation reason-different results-prediction influence.

From this context, we can find that popular science articles must have factors and links such as introduction, reason, result and influence. Then, once you encounter a similar article in the exam, you can roughly guess the general idea of the paragraph without much deviation.

For another example, IELTS 5 in Cambridge has an article about the disappearing delta, and its context is: putting forward the phenomenon (problem)-analyzing the reason-proving (such as1)-Example 2-leading to the result-the solution is to be determined.

It is also a popular science article, and the context of the article is almost exactly the same as the last one, including phenomena, causes, results and other factors and links.

Therefore, it is not difficult to master the typical context of such articles and do the topic of paragraph effect, and finally overcome this kind of problem.

Explain the five major problems of IELTS reading one by one.

IELTS reading questions can be roughly divided into five types:

1. Title list title correspondence problem

The paragraph title given at the beginning of the article is generally 10 option. It is required to find a matching paragraph title according to the paragraph content given in the title. Although the topic description suggests that one option may be applicable to more than one, generally speaking, one option in the China test can only be used for one paragraph. Candidates should first exclude the options as examples, so as not to interfere with candidates' choice of other options. At the same time, you should also cross out the sample paragraphs in the article to avoid unnecessary intensive reading of the sample paragraphs.

2. True/False/Not given is true or false.

True or false is a difficult point in IELTS reading test, and the number of questions in each test is about 7 to 16. The way to set the questions is to give a number of statement information points according to the content of the article for candidates to judge. If the content of the topic is consistent with the original content, choose true; If the content of the topic conflicts with the content of the article, choose false; If the theme is not mentioned in the original text, the choice is not given. When answering true or false questions, candidates should pay attention to the following points:

First of all, this type of question must not be based on your own feelings. You must go back to the article to find the corresponding information. At present, there are no true or false questions that need to be read through the full text in China test area, which means that candidates can definitely find the information point corresponding to a topic in the article at the back of the article. In addition, questions such as figurative questions, subjunctive mood questions and complex tense questions have disappeared in China examination area for many years, so candidates need not worry.

Second, when answering true or false questions, you must not judge according to your common sense or background knowledge, but should strictly limit your thinking to the scope given in the article. For example, talk about the internet, saying that people who surf the internet have to pay more for telephone calls. For most candidates in China, this is an indisputable fact, so many people choose TRUE, and the correct answer should not be given, because upgrading the Internet anywhere in the full text has nothing to do with telephone charges.

Thirdly, the difficulty of the previous true and false questions is that the questions are jumping, and it is difficult for candidates to judge which part of the article the description in the questions corresponds to. But recently, according to the order of information points in the article, the question of authenticity has been given. If you master this, candidates can quickly locate information, thus saving time for answering questions.

Fourth, when answering the true or false questions, we should pay special attention to the adverbs appearing in the original text and the questions. Adverbs are often the key to solving problems in terms of degree, scope, local integrity, frequency and contingency.

3. Multiple choice multiple choice problem

4. Matching information matching problem

This kind of question is a common question in IELTS academic reading test, and it is also a time-consuming and labor-intensive question. Pairing questions mainly include the following forms: the important concepts in the article and the explanation and pairing of this concept; Scholars match their main viewpoints; The wrong view matches the arguments against the wrong view; The event matches the development process of the event; Cause and result match; Some iconic things are in line with its times; New products match inventors, invention time, etc.

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