International Tutors' Magazine June 2019 | Page 7

JUNE 2019 IELTS READING BY BEATRICE CHEN YANQIAN Taught by Fel Castañeda It was great to attend Fel’s workshop about IELTS reading. First, he introduced two kinds of reading strategies: reading for gist and reading for specificity. The material we used was a passage about biology. Fel taught us to understand the main ideas, the arguments of the different paragraphs, as well as the whole passage in general. This method of reading was very useful. In the questions that followed the passage, we could easily find the places where the answers were. Additionally, we learned different ways to help us deal with unknown words in the passage, since we don’t have any dictionaries in the actual exam. We learned not only a good way to guess a word’s meaning in the IELTS exam, but also a kind of strategy to learn new words in daily life. I enjoyed this workshop a lot! 7