Top-down compared with Bottom-up approaches to reading Top-down emphasizes the importance of what the reader brings to the text whereas Bottom-up emphasizes the written or printed text itself. Top-down …
RW Fill in the Blanks: Test-takers will be asked to complete 5 or 6 of these tasks on the exam. This is the highest scoring part of the Reading section …
Table completion is a common task on the IELTS Reading exam. You are given a table of information, which usually has blanks in it, and you are required to fill …
Reading for Viewpoints: Read the following article from a website. Visitors walking through Carleton High School are often surprised when they pass Bradley Gordon’s French class and see students …
Run-on Sentence A recurring problem that ESL students, as well as native writers, come up against in their writing is the run-on sentence. Definition: This error occurs when sentences lack stopping …
Reorder Paragraph: This is the 3rd highest-scoring task in the Reading section. The two most common paragraph types/genres are anecdotal (story paragraphs) and topical newspaper and magazine articles. Remember …
Matching Headings Matching Headings is used in both General Training and Academic Exams and is considered one of the most difficult exam questions. This question type can have you read …
Reading Part 4: Reading for Viewpoints (13 minutes) There are 2 sections to Part 4: The first reading expresses two different views or opinions about a topic. Test-takers will …
1. Capitalize the names of proper nouns. Old Ottawa Ottawa University the Empire State Building Pierre Trudeau Pluto Saint-Michel Street / 7th Avenue 2. Capitalize the first words in lines …
The summary completion task asks you to fill in blanks at the end of a sentence provided, where the blanks may be filled in from a given list of words …