IELTS Live - Reading - Band 9 and Fast

welcome to today's live ielts class my name is adrian i'm streaming to you from beautiful central europe here in budapest capital of hungary i hope everybody is having a fantastic week so far hi anna hi honey hi abhishek welcome members good to see many of our regular students as well hi eldor high faith yeah faith uh i saw that no worries faith i will refund three of your payments i think you were just clicking a few times too many on the purchase button but that's okay don't worry about it we'll refund your extra payments no problem um okay and i got the email so just wait a little bit and we'll take care of that later all right everyone so welcome to this class uh right now we're focusing on ielts reading and we're going to talk about how to get band 9 and how to get it fast and it's going to be kind of interesting because it maybe is not what you think it's not skimming and scanning that's not the path to the band 9. so again this lesson is presented to you by ae help.com for 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case you're looking for materials to study from okay so here we go everyone let's do this together um all right uh so first things first read the title always read the title never skip the title some students make the first and one of the biggest mistakes in their reading by just ignoring the title they think i'll just start reading and i'll figure it out you know don't do that okay so read the title it will give you an idea of the passage so here we have the title let me just get this maximum size so you can really see these letters even if you're on mobile okay so here the title is music and technology are we really hearing the artist it's a question title when you have a question title you can imagine that the author will answer the question yes or no or the question will remain unanswered you have to think about it so music and technology are we really hearing the artist what do you think this title means so the first question you should ask yourself is what is this passage going to be about based on the title okay um so what do you think music and technology are we really hearing the artist what do you think this passage uh will be about sami says can you darken the screen a bit i can do that sammy there and i can even bring up the focus a little bit for us there you go all right um so kashirsha says it's going to be something about audio tune what do you mean about audio tune uh sami says it will be about music and authors uh abhishek says might be something about the fact that they're using software yeah moya very good so maria says technology can alter the voice of the artist yeah artist or the singer okay uh let's get into a little bit of critical thinking um what should we ask next okay so always think critically about the title so you read the title and you think critically about it so you consider some ideas uh what is a good question to ask next okay so that was some good thinking by some students you're saying yeah technology can change or alter the voice of the artist um for dobbs not just how yet okay remember your steps here before you think of how for dubs there's a question that you should ask before that so what's the question sandeep says are we really hearing the musician or the technology alisa's how to modify the sound and i think there's a better question before we ask okay uh abhishek's right on so abhishek says why are they using technology so that would be the next question i would ask myself before reading is why uh would anyone use technology to change the voice of the artist okay and the answer why would somebody do that so why would somebody play around with computer software to change it so the logical set of questions when you're developing ideas as what why how what why how what why how always okay uh ali says to improve it uh deep courses because they have no talent um sami says to make it more attractive for kansas to make a better impression abhishek says to improve the background and vocal tune lauren says editing erkin says to make it sound more perfect bacharach says to add improvisation moria says for better acoustics right so lots of answers right and that's what we want to think about okay so um to improve the pitch and tone of the singer to give it a unique sound to help the acoustics okay yeah so all of those are possible reasons for uh playing around with uh technology and helping the singer okay and how so how do we do it now that's the next question so how can technology be used to improve the voice of the author okay so always students when you're thinking about the title i think of what why how so what then why and then how okay that's logical right okay uh maurya says by using editing software uh divya says by using graphics i don't know how to how that would work uh deep chorus is by using autotune yeah okay so by using [Music] editing software by auto tune sure okay uh taranji says by using uh technological instruments yep computers synthesizers right so um equipment live or recorded right so all kinds of ways that we can do this good all right this is what you want to do so when you're reading and uh when you read the uh title like music and technology are we really hearing the artist and then you think about that and you come up with uh well what is this passage going to be about technology can alter the voice of the artist or the song why would somebody do that so that they improve the pitch the tone make it sound better give it a unique sound okay how can they do that by using editing software live performances using computers that's exactly how fast that has to happen so the way i just did it in like 30 seconds all of this is happening in 30 seconds okay so practice this at home so you can do all of this predicting let's call it like this predicting in 30 seconds okay you don't need to do this in minutes 30 seconds okay um everybody good tb democ no problem in frame rates um it's all good it's uh a super low latency stream that's why i can see your comment almost in real time it's not possible with other latency streams okay so 30 seconds 30 seconds for all of this yeah everybody's clear on that so practice it so that you can do 20 to 30 seconds for title prediction it's not minutes it's seconds that you're doing this and you have to be accurate the bad the better the faster the better you will be amrita vaishnavi for khan surya very good yep yep yep honey good all right okay all right uh hiya your exam is tomorrow uh do practice exams check where you're making mistakes and fix those that's what the last thing that you can do the last second um preparations there's a video uh by the way uh hayat on the channel that's uh focusing on last minute preparations for ielts it's an hd video check it out okay so let's go back next step so we got the title check that's done okay um next step look at the questions questions can help you as long as they're helpful questions there's two kinds of questions helpful questions not helpful questions okay um helpful what's the difference okay so let me kind of uh so and i've never said it this way but it's true two types of questions uh one is helpful questions and it is unhelpful or not helpful instead of saying not helpful i'm actually even gonna say uh bad or uh not bad questions but uh um let's call them misleading questions okay so uh what are helpful questions okay yeah divya you can also say useless questions absolutely divya patel says useless questions yeah there are those useless questions they're not just useless deceptive very good words surya deceptive questions yeah or confusing questions okay um so helpful questions helpful questions are questions that are in the passage somewhere lauren says real questions no there's somewhere in the passage so questions that are in the passage somewhere okay these are like um matching information summary completion [Music] okay um questions so there's a few of them okay and not helpful questions uh or misleading questions are like multiple uh choice question answers uh true false not given okay these are questions that are not in the passage so information that is uh not necessarily in the passage okay so those are the misleading questions all right uh yeah sammy fill in the blanks also okay absolutely so only review the helpful questions before the passage okay yeah absolutely okay that's very important so only review the helpful questions before the passage the only exception is list of headings but i'm not going to get into that right now we don't have a list of headings in this passage so that will be for another time here we go i'll show you what i mean so which paragraph contains the following information write the correct letter a to f in boxes 28 to 34 on your answer sheet this is a helpful type of question because all of these seven questions will be somewhere in the passage okay so an example of an imperfect artist the usage of tone correction software for the aesthetic experience uh again students this is a reading class so make sure you're reading with me okay read aloud if you can okay uh eliminating mistakes is the goal of humanity a key moral difference in the usage of tone correction software a sports analogy lack of clarity about what a concert goer is really hearing and the origins of tone correction software okay good now ideally you want to paraphrase those as well when you're practicing at home to get some more ideas here we have some multiple choice questions so again the answers are not helpful don't read the answers don't focus on the answers they will confuse you okay there's lots of unnecessary extra information just read the question what does tone correction software do and then change it to a statement tone correction software helps to make the voice of the person perfect i don't know we'll finish that statement after we read how did rudimentary usage of the software differ from modern usages the modern use of editing software for audio is different from the early usage of this software in that okay so i'm just kind of thinking of how to make it into a statement how do artists like t-pain and share use the software so share and t-pain use the software in these ways okay and then up we have the true false not given forget about it wait until the end of the passage no point to read that and it's just confusing okay now for band nines you do have to read the passage especially section three so the only place where you can do a little bit of skimming and scanning without necessarily reading i hate even saying this is section one and two of the general ielts but section three in the general ielts and all of the academic passages you should never ever just try to skim and scan for answers it does not work to get scores higher than 5.5 or 6 simply because the questions are made in such a way that you cannot skim read for them it takes too much time or it's virtually impossible because you need to have a complete idea of the paragraph or the passage to answer them okay so ielts examiners aren't stupid they know that students are trying to take shortcuts by skimming and scanning so they make the passage so you can't do that okay it's very simple logic so careful with that to get high band scores you have to read so remember what i said i said this class is about uh reading band nine and fast uh reading band nine and fast means that you're using effective study strategies the same strategies you can use in college and university to understand process information and answer questions effectively okay all right let's do this let's read everyone okay so here we go let's do this together all right um okay so from the top always read the title music and technology are we really hearing the artists let's do this together so uh visualize think about what you're reading okay uh be a part of it you're a musician you are a musician you're singing okay i'm not a big singer but i can imagine that i'm a singer and uh visualize that i'm a part of this okay and i'm using some editing software all right okay uh here we go so uh from the top the pursuit of perfection is one of the driving forces behind humanity but is perfection really the right goal can perfection even be a bad thing some music critics think so through the use of software that automatically corrects incorrect notes today's musical artists are no longer giving us a real version of their voice we hear an idealized or perfect version of their voice driven by the quest for perfection it seems we may have lost some of the soul and humanity of previous musical eras okay now in my mind as i'm reading this i always ask a question what is the question you think that i ask after reading the paragraph what do you think i ask myself and of course i answer the question so after i read a paragraph i always internally ask a very important question and i don't just ask it i always internally ask and answer a very important question yeah very good abhishek i asked the question what is the paragraph about okay um so here i ask myself what is this paragraph about okay and then i answer it okay so the question i always ask myself is what is this paragraph about what is this paragraph about so answer this question for me what is this question what is this paragraph about don't assume lauren mavia originality you're formulating the paragraph it's not exactly what it's about as he's back i'm not sure where you're going with that hossam it's not just about music affordable says perfection is not always good um yeah so there's a bit more in there concise but complete always be concise but complete nowadays musicians pursue perfection but this is not necessarily good all right uh that's what i think it's about nowadays musicians pursue perfection but this is not necessarily good uh would everybody agree that this is the main point of this introduction that nowadays musicians pursue they're after that perfect voice but this is not always good okay nisha definitely don't forget what you read in the paragraph it's hard to get a high band score if you're forgetting what you read actively read always and ask the question okay all right yeah you agree so uh what you're going for always when you read is make sure that your answer to this question uh is complete and concise okay so don't you don't need five sentences just eight nine words all right um all right perch says i don't agree with you okay push let me know what you think this paragraph is about and we can discourse okay all right if you don't agree with me you can always reread the paragraph okay it's not just uh always says it's catching the main idea yes it is catching the main idea in a very concise way but it's also catching the complete idea os okay all right everyone so let's keep going you'll see why this becomes extremely important because i can keep a catalog in my mind of this information as well okay here we go let's do this so uh from the top music from 50 years ago okay so that was present day now i'm jumping into the past music from 50 years ago even by the greatest singers is riddled with small errors flat notes poorly matched harmonies and other imperfections give the work a certain human quality but in the 1990s computer software was developed that could correct these small imperfections it would take a flat note and raise its pitch to where it was supposed to be likewise a sharp note was lowered to its appropriate pitch in its early years this automatic tuning software was rather rudimentary and resulted in an artificial and electronic sounding note it was very obvious to the listener that they were hearing an edited human voice soon however the software was developed to the point a song could be corrected and the audience would not know okay so what is this paragraph about it's about the emergence of uh voice editing software in the 1990s as compared to the past 50 years ago where there were some mistakes even in the best artist's voice all right so now i'm going to keep reading okay so again complete concise see some artists use the tone correction software itself for aesthetic that is to say they believe the resulting sound of rudimentary and electronic sounding corrections is aesthetically pleasing most music critics do not have a problem with this type of usage share the original artist to use correction software successfully used it in this fashion the american hip-hop artist t-pain is notorious for using the software for this aesthetic effect what is this paragraph about it's about using voice correction software to give kind of a unique sound that's maybe appealing okay if any of you heard that song do you believe in um life after love by share you'll know exactly uh what we're talking about here if you have that going on in your head do you believe in life after love that's horrible but you get what i'm saying it's computer software in there all right um so let's keep going okay very visual and if uh you can relate to it then definitely think about it okay all right uh so here we go okay uh d so why is it okay for artists like share and t-pain to use the software but wrong for others the answer is that cher and t-pain are not trying to deceive anyone they are not presenting their songs as the product of their voices alone other artists however do present automatically corrected songs as their own this is morally problematic since they are intentionally deceiving their audience it is this deception that is one of two major points against the usage of this software [Music] okay what is this paragraph about it's about the ethical or moral usage of software it's okay to use software to enhance the sound and make it interesting or different when it's noticeable but it's not okay to trick your audience into thinking they're hearing a perfect song when it's not actually that way so for dob says it's about cheating and cheating is not okay and that's one of two points against this okay okay so that's one point what's the second point then oh here it is the author is doing a good job one point second point the second point against using the software is that it actually has the opposite effect to that intended rather than reaching perfection it has gone too far and become robotic one can compare analogously to a game of football people watching football and other sports love to see great players play and perform incredible athletic feats we love greatness but we do not desire perfection nobody wants to watch a football game played with perfect football playing robots the idea is absurd because it removes the humanity of the sport and so it is with music in making a song sound perfect the singer is turned into something of a robot devoid of all musical soul the small imperfections are what give great songs their individual character mick jagger of the rolling stones for example is notoriously prone to off-key notes but this is part of who he is as a singer and what makes him great and automatically corrected mick jagger would the critics say be inferior to the real thing so this is the second point and the second point is that perfect sounding music is actually not perfect we like to see mistakes we like to see imperfection in some forms like in football and in music as well all right now we're down to yeah so os says people prefer the natural imperfect voices yeah absolutely lois the originality right okay here we go f we have no way of knowing which artists use the software and which ones do not unfortunately this software can now be used instantaneously and as such can be used in live performances the next time you attend a concert you might wonder to yourself if you are really hearing the artist or if you're actually hearing a kind of robot you may lament the fact that if the artist is indeed using the software you may be missing out on what might be an incredibly soulful if imperfect human voice all right so final paragraph conclusion is saying that uh software can be used in real time and this might be a bad thing because we might actually be missing out on a much better performance okay interesting argument let's look at some questions so there we read the passage in roughly 12 minutes with me giving explanations and giving feedback okay sammy says it's about listening to the original or cheating that's nice and concise sammy also sammy remember it's about using software in real time right so real time correction okay okay so here we have to choose the letter of the paragraph reading passage one has six paragraphs a to f uh which paragraph contains the following information write the correct letter a to f all right so here we go everyone um 28 an example of an imperfect artist what's your answer and then we'll choose the paragraph who is it talking about okay after reading visualizing i'm sure most of you are familiar with this singer or many of you are familiar with this singer was it who was that singer it was not sharon t-pain yeah it was mick jagger moira very good mick uh jagger right mick jagger uh what paragraph would did we read about mick jagger so that was the second argument right point number two there's uh abcdef yeah it was mick shettal i agree so all of you who remembered it was mick jagger um it was near the end it was uh d e or f so i'm gonna go right into the middle and just check now because i know that it's mick jagger it's a name so it's very easy to look for a name okay so looking for a name is super simple i can go back and i remember it was near the end of the paragraph boom there it is so fast to find it mick jagger of the rolling stones this is paragraph f so i know that that's paragraph e right very quick and confident do you know how long it would take me to answer that question in the real exam doing or following the correct strategy an example of a perfect artist is mick jagger mick jagger is somewhere near the end i'm going to look for his name i'll find his name very quickly i'm going to put in paragraph e this answer would probably take me no more than 10 seconds okay so i titled this class band 9 and fast for band 9 and fast okay i'm going to go back to that for a second the the topic here all right remember that's the topic of this lesson let's not forget the topic of the lesson uh band nine and fast band nine and fast really doesn't come from reading fast okay so a lot of students think that to get high bands and to do well you have to read fast no you have to answer fast and you have to answer with confidence okay so to get this is a very important tip to get a bend 9 fast in the reading section does not geez does not mean that you have to read fast instead it means that you have to read in about 10 to 12 minutes and comprehend the text clearly then you have to answer fast and with confidence okay make sense does everybody understand what i mean by that okay all right agman i hope it went well for you okay so being able to recall the information and answering fast that's the trick you don't want to spend three minutes on each question okay spend a bit more time on your reading and spend less time on answering okay that's the key okay so they're like yeah okay got it all right very nice okay fantastic all right so let's keep going and uh do this for the rest of them okay here we go okay number 29 the usage of tone correction software for the aesthetic experience okay um who comes to mind there so what's the answer okay the usage of tone correction software for the aesthetic experience immediately as soon as you see that word aesthetic experience you should have some answers coming to mind this is where share and t-pain should come to mind i remember that was c or d so i go back i'm looking for cher and t-pain um okay uh here's cher the original artist the aesthetic value c it is again very fast right so takes a very short amount of time so i put the answer c and i move on okay eliminating mistakes is the goal of humanity i don't need to look for this when i know the answer without looking uh what's the answer for this one who remembers from asking and answering what is the paragraph about i gave a very clear answer for this so it's very quick for me for khan and for dobbs both say yeah that was a that was the introduction perfection is the goal of people so a it is very nice okay this is why remember what i said it's really important for active reading to know what each paragraph is about okay very good all right uh 31 a key moral difference in the usage of tone correction software what's the answer that comes to mind here okay so don't give me the paragraph give me the word there was a word that was very clear for us here it was in the passage if i have to i can look for it i kind of know where it is it's the first point against it what was the word it starts with a d yeah so van newen says deceiving the audience so deception yeah deceiving deception very good then you win boom you get a huge thumbs up for that that's what i'm looking for remember that was also kind of around cd somewhere in the middle where it was talking about share and then it was talking about well some people deceive the audience so here it says this is morally problematic since they are intentionally deceiving uh the audience so this is d right deceiving the audience it's in the same paragraph as share so i go back and uh i answer uh d okay deceiving the audience okay a sports analogy sports analogy immediately robot football okay robot football i think was in there with mick jagger abhishek says e i can check because i know it's robot so i'm not skimming and scanning don't make the mistake thinking i'm skimming and scanning i know what i'm looking for i'm just making sure it's in the right paragraph there's the word sports uh but more importantly because that could be misleading i know i'm looking for robot football and there's my robot football's playing robot so that's my analogy right so e now sure you so some of you might think well i would have just searched for sports yeah but uh you'd be reading through a lot of useless information here i'm going exactly to the location right okay um number 33 lack of clarity about what a concert goer is really hearing again i don't need to search for that because of my q a my active reading i know exactly where that is so number 33 is f very good honey very good student so f yeah am i really hearing the artists at the concert very nice okay okay and the last one the origins of tone correction software the origins where it originates from where it comes from i remember it was something about the 1990s right so again that was near the beginning not quite the introduction but if i remember correctly paragraph b so again very very fast for me here music 50 years ago and then but in the 1990s computer software so b it is okay all right very good and lots of you're answering b very good moria very good cinder singh oh it's nicely done okay so b sure okay so i put in b and off to the races lots of confidence in my answers they're going very very quickly okay all right now i get to multiple choice so multiple choice uh what does tone correction software do okay answer tone correction software changes the notes the pitch of the artist to make it sound perfect i'm not looking for the answer in the choices okay multiple choice questions don't look for the answer think about the answer then match your answer to one of the choices okay so correct imperfect notes turns humans into robots turns poor singers into great singers corrects sharp notes by making them flat the closest answer to mine is a corrects imperfect note so tone correction software changes the notes the pitch the artist to make it sound perfect corrects imperfect notes i have perfect here i have notes here it's my closest match okay hopefully everybody's with me and clear on that all right so very important tip multiple choice i think of the answer and then i match i don't just look okay everybody's good yeah with that hopefully all right next one how did rudimentary usage of the software differ from modern usage what's the answer so how did rudimentary use differ from modern use what's your answer okay uh van newen says it's not noticeable then i think you're on the right track give me a full uh sentence maria says it's evident for the listener yeah so very good morya very nice okay so you want to be able to answer on your own so um early use uh was noticeable uh for the listener but modern use cannot be noticed so you think you're it's deceptive right okay very good so now i'm looking for a match so rudimentary usage corrected imperfect notes modern usage cannot correct live performances both usages correct imperfect notes rudimentary usages were obvious to the listener what's the best answer moria says the best answer is d based on my answer right maurya and you would absolutely get that answer correct okay so rudimentary usages were obvious to the listener d it is okay absolutely all right very nice okay how do artists like t-pain and share use the software okay they use it for original and aesthetic sound okay that's what t-pain and chair use the software for so let me see if anything matches yeah abhishek aesthetically absolutely i can see that okay so to negate aesthetic merit for artistic effect to improve their quality of sound to avoid the immorality of using modern tone correction software what is the correct answer honey it is not a okay sami it's not a maishnabi it's not a negate means to stop to limit okay to limit aesthetic effect no that's the opposite or merit so the correct answer is artistic effect b okay quality of sound not necessarily to avoid immorality it's for artistic aesthetic is synonymous to artistic in this case okay it was a little bit difficult here because the question words themselves are a little bit more challenging but the correct answer here is b it's for artistic effect artistic effect is synonymous here with aesthetic effect okay uh they're not necessarily improving the quality of sound they're doing it for artistic so aesthetic artistic okay b is the correct answer that was a little bit challenging okay true false not given we have three of them i'll go through these show you how it's done so you know for the future number 38 many artists present tone corrected songs as their own work is it important to know whether or not the author talks about this in relation to the topic yes or no because if it is important it's going to be given if it's not important then it's not going to be given so in this case the author definitely includes this information because it's important to the passage that musicians are presenting tone corrected songs as their own work is it true yes absolutely that's the problem with this software is that many artists are saying that hey this is me singing but it's not really because your voice is being corrected so 38 is given it's true 39 a lack of perfection can improve the quality of a song is it important to know whether or not not having perfection uh can make the song better uh yes that's important and is it true yes it is the example was mick jagger right so the answer is true i don't need to search for it these are very very difficult to search for it's much better if you can logically understand them okay the software can be used by those in the crowd to tone correct a live performance all right so is it important to know whether or not people in the crowd or in the audience can use tone correction in a live performance to correct the song uh it's weird it's awkward it's too much detail so it's not going to be given it's a strange concept if you understand what it's saying then it's strange so it's not given okay so true true too much detail not given okay all right um if you're still confused about true false not given questions check out the hd true false not given reading video on our channel okay so on our channel do a search for true false not given and you'll find an hd video where i do an entire lesson on just true false not given questions check that out okay all right everyone so that's reading for today remember those tips the key to band 9 and fast on your ielts exam is good comprehension through active reading and not spending a lot of time on the questions but answering questions fast and with confidence if you take a minute to answer one question at that point you have to be wondering why is it taking me a whole minute to answer the question do i really know the answer or am i just kind of guessing right so you shouldn't be spending that much time for each question you should be spending 20 30 seconds on a question at most okay keep that in mind uh that's it for today for the live streaming i will be back tomorrow with more writing more reading so come back tomorrow and hang out with me for some more english and ielts you're very welcome lynn welcome real diamond good to have you in the class uh bye anna have a great day uh much love to all of you keep up the good studies i'm adrian signing out from central europe for now bye you

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Published: Thu Jan 28 2021