IELTS
JOURNAL
79
Reading: Note completion
Tip:
Only
write the missing words, and make sure you don't repeat words from
either side of the gap.
Example:
Here is part of a text about the invention of cellophane. In this example answers
should be no more than one word and/or a number.
Cellophane was invented by Jacques Edwin Brandenberger, a Swiss chemist. In
1990, he made a
coating to be applied to cloth, to protect it from being stained.
The cloth was too stiff, but when he saw that the coating easily peeled off it as a
transparent film, he realized the coating could be of value as a material in its
own right. He eventually
perfected the material, mainly by adding glycerin to
soften it, and constructed a machine to make it.
Questions:
Complete the notes below.
Initial experiment:
Aim: to
1 …… cloth from stains
Problem: the cloth became
2 ……
Potential value: the
coating of film was 3 …… and could easily be
separated from the cloth
Development:
Used
4 …… to change the texture of the film
IELTS
JOURNAL
80
Reading: table completion
Tip:
Use the information in the table to help you predict the type of word you need to
find in the text. The answers may not follow the order of the text, but are generally in
the same part of the text.
Example:
One of Japan's major companies
is Sharp Corporation, started by 18-year-old Tokuji
Hayakawa in 1912, in Tokyo. At first the company worked with metal, producing snap
buckles for belts, then, from 1915, the 'Ever-Sharp Pencil' –
a mechanical pencil that
gave the company its present name. The Sharp Group is now a major manufacturer of
electronic goods, from LCD TVs to solar cells. It had expanded into 25 countries or
regions around the world, and has a total of 60,200 employees worldwide, including
32,200
in its home country, where its head office has now moved to Osaka. The
company entered the USA market in 1962, setting up Sharp Electronics Corporation
(SEC), with its headquarters in New Jersey. SEC now employs 2,500 people.
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