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    IELTS Reading for Vocabulary: Essential Practice for High Band Scores
    IELTS Reading for Vocabulary: Essential Practice for High Band Scores
    IELTS Reading for Vocabulary: Essential Practice for High Band Scores
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    IELTS Reading for Vocabulary: Essential Practice for High Band Scores

    By J.P. Williams

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    This book provides essential practice for serious students who are determined to achieve a high IELTS band score in the IELTS Reading paper.

    Achieving a high IELTS band in Reading is not easy! Ignore books that tell you otherwise. It is a difficult job to read demanding texts in a short time span. You need to have already been exposed to different types of texts and have acquired a wide range of vocabulary.

    Books on reading techniques and tips will get you so far but that is no substitute for preparing hard by reading texts from a variety of fields and making a great effort to acquire as much vocabulary as you can before taking the exam.

    This book offers ten texts that accompany detailed Vocabulary Grids that prepare you for the words and phrases you need to fully understand each text. The questions that follow focus sharply on the vocabulary that each text contains. Answers are given and include detailed notes that further your understanding of the meaning and usage of the words. This information is vital in helping you remember words and exploring how they fit together. Your ability to build a wide vocabulary will come through this means, not through trying to commit word lists to memory.

    This book is specifically aimed at those who are serious about their IELTS exams and determined to reach their goal of going on to further academic studies or qualifying for entry to another country.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOnlearn
    Release dateOct 19, 2012
    ISBN9781301629893
    IELTS Reading for Vocabulary: Essential Practice for High Band Scores
    Author

    J.P. Williams

    J.P. Williams is part of a highly qualified team with many years experience in IELTS Exam preparation instruction and resource development. All members of the Onlearn team have Master Degrees in English Language Teaching. Our popular IELTS and ESL websites include: “MyEnglishExam.com”, “esl4free.com”, “youtube.com/esl4free” & “marktask.com”.

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    IELTS Reading for Vocabulary - J.P. Williams

    IELTS Reading for Vocabulary:

    Essential Practice for High Band Scores

    by

    J.P. Williams / Onlearn

    Copyright © 2012 Onlearn

    Smashwords Edition

    This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each reader. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

    Table of Contents

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    Answers & Feedback

    Introduction

    How this book can help increase your score

    The IELTS Reading for Vocabulary book has been created for IELTS Academic Exam candidates who want to achieve a high score in the Reading Paper. Many candidates find that the three texts in the Reading Paper are very demanding for two reasons. Firstly, the texts are drawn from different fields to which they might have had no exposure. Secondly, the type of vocabulary that the texts use is of a wide range and, therefore, requires that the candidates have a very good passive vocabulary.

    This book attempts to address these issues. The texts are varied in their subject matter and focus on helping candidates acquire a wide vocabulary by highlighting key words and phrases. The exercises that follow are based on the vocabulary occurring in the text. The answers include detailed notes indicating the correct answer but also explaining why other answers are wrong.

    Using a dictionary can help you find out the meanings of words but you often need much greater guidance in understanding how words fit together (or collocate) with other words.

    The level of vocabulary is high, providing excellent preparation for those who are looking to achieve high bands in their IELTS.

    Using this book

    You should systematically work your way through the ten demanding texts after looking at the highlighted Vocabulary Grids.

    Part of a Vocabulary Grid

    Initial part of a Reading Text

    After carefully reading and re-reading the text with the help of the Vocabulary Grid, you should attempt the varied vocabulary questions. At the end of questions, you have a link which will take you directly to the Answers page for that particular text. All answers are given with Notes. A link at the end of the answers for each exercise will return you to the reading exercise.

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