Try doing the test on page 50-53 in Cambridge IELTS book 4.
Follow this advice for the 3 question sections:
- Which paragraph contains: Always do these questions last. Do the other question sections first to become familiar with the text.
- Which ideas are mentioned: Remember, you are looking for ideas that are mentioned in the text, not ideas that are true.
- Match the names: This is a perfect task for scanning. Scan quickly to find and underline the names.
Here is the key vocabulary that will help you to find the answers:
Hi Simon
I am going to take the speaking part tomorrow morning. please pray for my success. thank for your good lessons during these months.
Posted by: bahare | October 26, 2010 at 07:18
Hi Simon
In terms of similar words, I must mention a key problem in my essays-repeating the same word too many times.
For example,"think","people","because","nowadays" and etc.
Maybe next time you can give us some examples to show us how to replace a overused word with a fresh one. Thank you in advance!
By the way, wish you good luck in getting your expected mark, bahare!
Posted by: Johnny | October 26, 2010 at 16:16
Good luck Bahare! Let me know how it goes.
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Hi Johnny,
Good question. To get started, here are some words to use instead of "people":
- individuals
- residents / citizens / inhabitants (when talking about people who live in a particular country)
- members of society
- the public
Hope this helps
Posted by: Simon | October 26, 2010 at 17:12
hi simon
I don't have the answer key for ielts practice 4
would you mind to give us the answer key
thank you
Posted by: annisa | March 04, 2011 at 03:52
Hi Annisa,
I'm afraid I don't have it in electronic form.
Posted by: Simon | March 06, 2011 at 21:56
Hi Simon,
I have couple of questions list below.
1. For ideas mentioned part. I chose A,B,C but the answers are A,C,F. There is a word "socialise" in para B (about the end) which I interpreted as B in answer. In addition, I can't find where is the F.
2.In Q.37- Firstly, I thought of G as a corrected answer and then I changed my mind to H because he said "jumping rapidly" to other survival skills and its only one play activity not "wide range." And the word "combined" during play also confused me.
Thx you so much.
Posted by: Sam | April 16, 2012 at 16:45
Hi Sam,
"F" is a bit of a trick. The whole article is about how play helps to build bigger brains - don't forget that the brain is an organ. There is nothing specifically about "peer groups", so it's not "B".
There is nothing about "teaching survival skills", but there is something that gives the idea of "a wide range" - a behavioural kaleidoscope... jumping between activities" (i.e. between more than one activity).
Hope this helps!
Posted by: Simon | April 19, 2012 at 15:08
Hi sir, you site is marvelous, I like it so much. This Reading passage from IELTS 4 was really hard, I don't know whether I should read whole passage or not. I read hte passage completely but I miss the time to answer question 27 to 32. Please help me.
Posted by: saeedeh | May 10, 2012 at 13:01
Hi Saeedeh,
You don't have time to read the whole passage first. Just go straight to the questions, and search for the answers one by one.
Posted by: Simon | May 11, 2012 at 15:08
Hi simon
Thanks for all material there are many openion during wrting easy it should be how many paragraphs and lots of type graphs we have to write name of eachone such as line graphs.
Posted by: simon | November 01, 2014 at 14:29
Hi simon,
Thank you for your help.
Q.32 the classes of animals for which play is important_the correct letter is B. Could you tell me how to make a correct answer?
Best wishes,
Mary
Posted by: Mary | April 23, 2016 at 16:34