IELTS ADVANCED

READING
SKILL LESSON 2
Academic Reading Section 2
 Agenda & Materials
• Homework correction + Review
• Review of the Question Types
• Action Plan for IELTS (p.42-49)
• Practice
• Lead-in
• Academic Reading Section 2 (p.99-101)
 Homework correction
READING 1
1. prolong
2. irrigate
3. civilisation
4. interpretation
5. flourish
6. tremendous
7. excessive
What question types did we cover last meeting?

• Sentence Completion
• Notes/Table/Flow chart completion
• Short answer questions
• Diagram Labelling
• True/False/Not Given
• Global Multiple Choice
Academic Reading Section 2

Theory + Short Practices

 Reading Question Types
1. Matching Features/Classification
2. Matching Information
3. Sentence Completion (with wordlist)
4. Yes/No/Not Given
5. Multiple Choice
Practice: Matching
“Effective Advertising”
Page 43-44
 Answers
1.B
2.A
3.D
4.C
5.A
6. unfortunate= complained; focus of advertising=advertising used to be
about; changed =used to be + now
Practice: Matching Information
“Dawn of Modern man”
Page 44-45
 Answers
7.B
8. B originally located
9. C mollusk(c) scavenger
10. A much like we do today
11. C transported them to the cave
Practice: Completion (with wordlist)
Page 45-46
 Answers
13. B
14
A. is grammatically incorrect because waste is uncountable.
C. is incorrect because it is illogical.

15.D
16.F
17.A
Practice: Yes/No/Not Given
“Blowing in the wind”
Page 47-48
 Answers
19 Most of it is the writer's claims. The information about the pin-tumbler lock is mainly
fact.
20. NO – 21. YES – 22. NOT GIVEN
23 YES it is perhaps not surprising that most people pay little attention to where their
energy comes from or what impact using it is having on the environment.
24 NOT GIVEN greener and cleaner energy sources
25 YES Some two billion people are still without electricity, the majority of whom live in
poor countries.
26 NO emerging energy sources could mean the foundation of new high-tech industries
that employ hundreds of thousands of people.
Practice: Multiple Choice
Page 49
 Answers
28 A
29 B For more than 60 years sounds like a long time but the writer does not say anything
negative about this.
C The writer does not say it was well planned.
D Although birds are mentioned, they are mostly located away from the factory and
town.
Practice Test
Reading Section 2
 (optional) Lead-in
Watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeSuQm7KfaE and
explain in your own words how geckos can stick to walls and ceilings.

AN ANIMAL?
 Reading Section 2
Action Plan, p.99-101
• Spend 20 minutes on questions 1-13
 Answers
14 D
15 B
16 A
17 A
1S C
19 C
20 F
 Homework
• Supplementary Book Advanced - Vocabulary section
* Wordlist 2 - Reading (p.211)
*Vocabulary Review 2 - Reading (p.252)