101 Helpful Hints for IELTS
Notice how you can think of the sentence as being made up of 3 main parts:
1.
Britain has been a popular choice (What and where?)
2. ...
for thousands of international students (Who for?)
3. ...
over many years. (When?)
Note also, that in this case (and many others) all the phrases answer
wh/how questions. It may be
helpful at first to think of wh/how questions when trying to read in phrases.
If you read each word in a sentence one at a time, you will read very slowly and most likely
misunderstand the meaning of much of what you read. So read your sentences in phrases by
considering all the words of a phrase as a single unit.
Notice how much quicker it is to read the sentence, and how the meaning of what you say is more
clear. Practise reading in phrases everyday. Look ahead on the page as you read, and always aim
to find logical places in the sentences where phrases begin and end. Note also that there is often more
than one solution as to where the logical breaks between phrases occur within sentences.
Read faster by reading words in groups that form logical units of thought
DEVELOP A MEMORY FOR ENGLISH
In the Reading Test, it pays to remember as much as you can of what you have just read, but at least
the words can be read again. However, in the Listening Test you cannot go back, and the tape is only
played once. If the answer comes before the keyword/phrase, your memory of what you have just
heard is even more important. Nevertheless, the answer usually follows the keywords/phrases that
you hear, and is close in time to the main keyword/phrase you are listening for. (See also IELTS Test
- Basic Hint 9.)
To improve your "English memory", try the following exercise. Using the pause button on the tape
recorder, repeat the sentences spoken in the passages on the audio cassette tape that comes with this
book,
gradually increasing the length of what you repeat. Do not worry about repeating the exact
words. Simply aim to remember more of what you have heard.
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