IELTS Advantage: Reading Skills

Published 2017.

IELTS Advantage: Reading Skills is a fully comprehensive resource for passing the IELTS Academic Reading Test with a grade of 6.5-7.0 or higher. Students who are taking the General IELTS Test can also benefit from the book. This book teaches a range of key strategies for reading more effectively and for understanding texts more easily, such as skimming, scanning and speed-reading techniques, helping students to get a better result in the Reading paper.

Each of the ten units provides a variety of long and short texts that cover major topic areas likely to appear in the exam. Each unit is divided into different sections to help students:

get to know the many question types and how to approach them

develop skills to cope with the amount of reading in the test

learn strategies which help in making the most of the time in the exam

develop vocabulary and collocations, with attention paid to synonyms and paraphrases, essential for a good exam result

Key features:

Suitable for classroom study or self-study

Includes answer key

Includes additional sections to help students with core skills needed for IELTS:

Useful websites for hours of IELTS reading practice

Problems to avoid when filling in the answer sheet

Tips for effective vocabulary skills

How to get the most from your dictionary

A summary of IELTS tips

How this book helps prepare for the other IELTS papers