Helpful Hints for ACADEMIC MODULE BY GARRY ADAMS & TERRY PECK Practice Tests and Hints for IELTS Listening • Reading • Writing • Speaking fully updated for new IELTS Speaking Test format www.just2download.blogspot.com 101 Helpful Hints for IELTS PUBLISHER'S ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AUTHORS' ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The publishers are grateful for permission to use copyright material. We would like to acknowledge the original sources of text material listed below. Permission has been sought to reproduce all material whose source could be identified. Information that will enable the publishers to rectify any error or omission in subsequent editions will be welcome. The nine Band Score descriptions on page 12 are reproduced from The IELTS Handbook, a joint publication of the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate, The British Council, and IDP Education Australia: IELTS Australia. The reading passage "Regional Student Survey" on page 97, is adapted from The ELICOS Student Contextualised - Facts & Figures by Ms. CM. Bundesen, with permission of the author. BY THE AUTHORS: '101 Helpful Hints for IELTS - Academic Module' International Edition - Practice Book & Cassette Book: ISBN # 0 9587604 6 2 Cassette: ISBN # 0 9578980 0 2 '101 Helpful Hints for IELTS - General Training Module' International Edition - Practice Book & Cassette Book: ISBN # 0 9587604 9 7 Cassette: ISBN # 0 9578980 0 2 '202 Useful Exercises for IELTS' International Edition - Practice Book & Cassette Book: ISBN # 0 9587604 7 0 Cassette: ISBN # 0 9578980 1 0 '202 Useful Exercises for IELTS' Australasian Edition - Practice Book & Cassette Book: ISBN # 0 9587604 5 4 Cassette: ISBN # 0 9578980 2 9 We would like to acknowledge the support of the following people: Bruce Bell, HelenkaPiotrowski, Laurent Seibert, Andrew Thomas (Sydney English Language Centre), and Soon-Young Yoon. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Terry Peck and Garry Adams have extensive IELTS coaching experience, both having been involved in implementing and designing IELTS coaching programmes. Terry Peck was an IELTS examiner for a number of years in Sydney, Australia. AVAILABLE SOON: '101 Helpful Hints for IELTS - Academic Module' International Edition - Practice CD-ROM and Manual '101 Helpful Hints for IELTS - General Training Module' International Edition - Practice CD-ROM and Manual '303 The Speaking Room for IELTS' Video/CD-ROM/Cassette and Manual '404 Practice Listening Tests for IELTS' Practice Book & Cassettes Book: ISBN # 0 9587604 8 9 Cassettes: ISBN # 0 9578980 4 5 First published in Sydney, Australia 2000 ISBN 0 9587604 6 2 Adams & Austen Press Pty. Ltd. A.B.N. 96 087 873 943 PO Box 509, Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia 1475 Tel/Fax: 612-9568-1768 Email: aap@aapress.com.au www.aapress.com.au Copyright © T. A. Peck 1999 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher. Illustrations by H. Piotrowski and T. Peck Printed and bound in Australia by Southwood Press, Marrickville, NSW. 98765432 1 www.just2download.blogspot.com Contents CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Page How to Use This Book 4 What is IELTS? 5- 10 -An Overview 5 - The IELTS Academic Module Sub-tests 6 - 7 - Myths and Truths about IELTS 8-9 - Some Interesting World Wide WebSites for Teachers and Students 10 101 HELPFUL HINTS Using the Hints 11 IELTS Test - Basic Hints (1 - 15) 12 - 19 Listening Test Hints (16 - 36) 20-31 Reading Test Hints (37 - 58) 32 - 46 Writing Test Hints (59 - 82) 47 - 73 - A Basic Understanding 47 - 54 -Writing Task 1 55 - 61 - Sentence Construction 62 - 63 - Writing Task 2 64 - 73 Speaking Test Hints (83 - 101) 74 - 83 Notes 84 PRACTICE TESTS How to Take the Practice Tests 85 Practice Test One 86 - 106 - Practice Listening Test One 86 - 92 - Practice Reading Test One 93 - 103 - Practice Writing Test One 104 - Practice Speaking Test One 105 - 106 Practice Test Two 107 - 126 - Practice Listening Test Two 107- 112 - Practice