Improve Your Skills Reading for Ielts 4.5-6.0 Students Book

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Reading for IELTS

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Sam Mccarter• Norman Whitby

Macmillan Education 4 Crinan Street London N 1 9:XW A division of Macmillan Publishers Limited Companies and representatives throughout the world

ISBN 978-()..2304-6214-4 (with key) ISBN 978-()..2304-6220-5 (without key) ISBN 978-0-230-4-6217-5 (with key+ MPO pack) ISBN 978-()..230-4-6219-9 (without key+ MPO pack)

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Introduction page 4

Unit 1 page 6

Unit2 page 14

Unit3 page 22

Unit4 page 30

Units page 38

Unit6 page 46

Unit7 page 54

Topic

Change and consequences

The importance of the past

Processes and cycles

Education

Youth

Culture

Arts and sciences

Unit 8 Nature page 62

Unit 9 Health page 70

Unit 10 The individual page 78 and society

Answer Key page 86

Reading skills

Scanning Completing sentences (gapped) Answering True/False/Not Given statements

Skimming Answering True/False/Not Given statements Completing sentences (matching endings)

Labelling a diagram (1) Completing tables Completing flow charts

Predicting Answering Yes/No/Not Given statements (writer's claims) Matching headings ( 1)

Completing summaries with wordlists

Selecting statements from a list

Exam practice

Answering True/False/Not Given statements Completing sentences (gapped) Completing multiple-choice questions

Completing sentences (matching endings) Mat.ching names Completing multiple-choice questions

Labelling a diagram Completing multiple-choice questions Completing sentences (matching endings)

Matching headings Answering Yes/No/Not Given …