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Active Learning Seminars
Presented by Nigel Veal
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Please take part!
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for the IELTS
Reading Test
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What is in the IELTS reading module?
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Reading passages
Three passages from magazines, books, journals or newspapers
Topics of general interest
At least one passage presents a detailed logical argument
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Time allowed:60 minutes
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Number of Questions:40
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Format of questions
Multiple choice questions
Gap-fill questions
Short answer questions
Matching questions
True/False/Not given questions
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Pine tree
Giant Tortoise
Humans
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Answer Key1. A
2. C
3. organisms
4. conception
5. maximum
6. female
7. 120 years
8. 4000 years
9. female
10. E
11. A
12. C
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Reading Strategies
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What successful candidates do
•SKIM the passage to get a general understanding of the main points in the passage.
• SCAN the passage to locate the specific information needed to answer a question.
• READ this information INTENSIVELY to decide on the answer.
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Skimming
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Scanning
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1.TV schedule scan2.Telephone directory scan3.Magazine skim4.Newspaper skim5.Train timetable scan6.travel brochure skim
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Reading intensively
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The reading skills you need
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1. Understanding the words
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Guessing: A useful strategy
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Computers have been used for most kinds of crime, including fraud, theft, larceny, embezzlement, burglary, sabotage, espionage, murder and forgery, since the first cases were reported in 1958.
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Computers have been used for most kinds of crime, including murder and since the first cases were reported in 1958.
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2. Understanding what writers are doing.
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Writers
describe
argue
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Reading definitions
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The lemming is a rodent that is closely related to the vole and the meadow mouse.
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Tea is the beverage that is made when the processed leaves of the tea plant are infused with boiling water.
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3. Matching information when you read
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Betty
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Betty the crow
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Project Delphis
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Reflection
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Orang-utanLanguage Project
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Text 1: Crows Text 2: Dolphins Text 3: Orang-utans
Organization that carried out the research 1
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City or place where research took place 2
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Main aim of research 3 Test ability to
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Text 1: Crows Text 2: Dolphins Text 3: Orang-utans
Organization
City or place
Main aim
Zoology Department,Oxford University
EarthtrustSmithsonian National Zoological Park
Oxford Hawaii New York
make (simple) tools dolphins are self-aware communicate
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Text 1Method used to conduct testsCrows chose hook or straight wire in order to 1 ……………... container. After male crow took hook, the female bird (Betty) 2 ……………. wire to make another one. Researchers gave Betty more straight wire and in ten tests she managed to make a hook 3 ………….…….. times.
Research findingsCrows able to make an appropriate tool from 4 ……………… that they had not seen or used much, providing new evidence of animal intelligence.
lift/retrieve
bent
nine
materials
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Text 2Method used to conduct testsZinc oxide was put on sides of bottleneck dolphins and their behaviour was filmed through a 1 ……………………. . After seeing 2 ………..………….. The dolphins moved about a lot suggesting they had noticed the 3 ………………………………………….. .
Research findings Dolphins, like 4 …………..………….………. may be self-aware.
one-way mirrortheir reflection
zinc oxide/mark/zinc oxide mark
man/humans and apes
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Text 3Method used to conduct testsObjects were passed into the orang-utans’ cages and as they touched a computer screen a corresponding 1 ……………….. would appear. They then learnt which of these matched which object. If they made the 2 ……………………… choice a bell rang and they received 3……………………………., which could be food or praise.
Research findingsOrang-utans showed the 4…………………………………….. by making connections between abstract symbols and objects.
symbol
right/correcta reward/rewards
ability to communicate
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Scanning
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for the IELTS
Reading Test
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