A good practice for IELTS reading:

Hi dear all!

Happy New Year. I hope you enjoy the holidays and have a great time. In this post, I am going to talk about one of the exercises I myself did when trying to prepare myself for the IELTS Reading.

As you may know, the reading test in IELTS is not a mere comprehension test of reading, but a test of understanding the reading structure. In other words, those who know how a text is structured are more likely to have a better score in the reading test of IELTS. Therefore, one of the significant factors in acing the section is to know how a text is structured.

The practice I am talking about is as follows:

Choose an IELTS reading test. Do not waste your time on the questions. What we are going to do is to work with the text only, and not to answer the questions. Take your time reading the text wholly. It doesn’t matter how much time it takes. Only read it. In the next step, try to identify the main topic of the text.

Ask this: what is it all about? Why has the writer written this text?

After you understood the main idea of the text, read each paragraph completely once again, this time, concentrate on the main topic the paragraph is talking about. In order to do so, you have to have a good understanding of the terms theme, and paragraph structure, about both of which Dr.Niazmand has written a great deal. Write the idea you have guessed next to the paragraph.

If you do the practice with a sufficient number of texts, you gradually move into succeeding in the IELTS reading test. The uses for this practice are many. I hope I can talk about the uses later on.

Well, have a nice time reading!