Reading
UNIT 1 Orientating yourself to the text
In the IELTS test you are given texts to read which someone else has chosen for you. So it is
important to skim through each text asking yourself the sort of questions that will help you
understand it quickly.
Re-read the introduction to the Reading module on the previous page and answer
the following questions:
What subject is the text about?
Why was the text written?
Who was it written for?
Why would somebody read this text?
What type of text is it?
These are critical questions that help you to
orientate
yourself to the text.
TITLES
AND SUB-HEADINGS
Nearly all articles that you read in magazines and newspapers will have a title (unless
it has been removed for a particular reason). Many will also have a sub-heading.
Read this title
and sub-heading
which introduce a
magazine article:
The Dynamic Continent
The constantly changing landscape of
Antarctica is a challenge to cartographers*.
6 What is this article about?
7 What kind of person would be interested in this article?
8 What do you expect to read about in the first paragraph?
*people who make maps
Now read the first
paragraph of the
article:
IN MOST AREAS or THE WORLD, certainly in Europe, both the
physical landscape and the maps of it are relatively stable.
Map revision is usually concerned with manmade features,
such as buildings and roads. This is not true о Аntartiса.
The Antarctic ice sheet is a dynamic entity and cartographers
have to contend with big and rapid changes in the physical
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