Reading Skills

Book excerpt: IELTS Advantage: Reading Skills is a fully comprehensive resource for passing the IELTS Academic Reading Test with a grade of 6.5–7.0 or higher. Students who are taking the General IELTS Test can also benefit from the book. This book teaches a range of key strategies for reading more effectivelyand for understanding texts more easily, such as skimming, scanning and speed-reading techniques , helping students to get a better result in the Reading paper.Each of the ten units provides a variety of long and short texts that cover major topic areas likely to appear in the exam. Each unit is divided into different sections to help students:• get to know the many question types and how to approach them• develop skills to cope with the amount of reading in the test• learn strategies which help in making the most of the time in the exam• develop vocabulary and collocations, with particular attention paid to synonyms and paraphrases, essential for a good exam result