IELTS Live - Reading Section - Band 9 Strategy and Practice

days live ielts class my name is adrian and i'm streaming to you live from beautiful victoria the capital city of the province of british columbia here on west coast canada i hope everybody is having a great week so far in this class everyone we are looking at ielts the reading section specifically we're looking at the academic ielts reading section uh it's good to know that the reading section of the general ielts section three is very similar to the academic reading section so this will benefit all of you who are planning to sit your ielts exam and we're going to talk about how to get that high band band 9 strategy the perfect score this is a member's chat class of course everybody is welcome to watch i did see that we had a couple of new members uh joining us welcome rashika welcome jai neil it's good to see our members joining in this class is brought to you by aehelp.com for academic ielts success uh definitely visit us there for the general ielts visit us at g ieltshelp.com that's general ieltshelp.com on both of our websites we have lots and lots of videos in hd uh we have practice exams and we have interactive courses to help you improve your communication your english this is a reading class so make sure to read uh while i'm reading as well so go with my flow uh welcome nico hi saga all right uh saga woke up nice and early you know what they say saga the early bird catches the worm so good on you for getting up at 6 a.m to join the class i'll quickly show you what our websites look like as we get into this lesson and wait for a few more of our members to join in this is our academic ielts website here with the blue background you can click that big red button to join our premium package it is a one-time payment for lifetime access it's not a lot of money definitely worth the investment if you're planning to sit your ielts test and for the general ielts it's the green background you can click that big red button to join us there we are an ielts uh 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first exam i thought i'd start with this since i'm situated again back in victoria as many of you know i just transitioned back from our european office in budapest to our office in victoria and so we're starting with reading passage one from our test number one and this passage is titled mountains of ice and sometimes uh especially in the paper-based version of the test you'll have a picture that will accompany uh the passage all right so saga says i remember this text which is great uh saga a really important tip and this is for everyone don't always look at new ielts materials you should review materials that you've gone through once or twice before in the past this is true for reading passages for speaking questions to see how you have improved to see if you can comprehend understand the passage better a second or third time that you read it so repetition of ielts practice materials is a really good practice strategy before your test too many students keep looking at new passages every day all the time without revisiting checking their mistakes and improving on past materials so saga if you've seen this text before that's a good thing okay all right so mountains of ice here we go we have our title we have our picture when you get to the reading section of your ielts exam and you look at the title of the passage what is the first step that you should take so when you're in your paper-based or computer-based exam and you're in the reading section can anybody tell me from our members what is the very very first step that you should take okay let's see if anybody remembers this from some of the past videos or classes meanwhile alphys saying um i got overall seven five and individual scores seven five eight five seven and seven that's fantastic alpha really great score congratulations i wish you the best in your next steps so uh nico alpha sega what should you do so saga says read the title ask questions and ask what why and how um yes that is uh good to do saga even before you do that so i would say the second step is to read the title and and ask questions what why how before you do that a really good step and i did this when i did my official outs exam a couple weeks ago is look at all of the passages okay so i'm going to give you some tips on how to get a really high band score and i know you only have 60 minutes for this so i keep that in mind step number one is look at all of the titles of all reading passages and start with the one that is the most familiar for you okay so different people have different majors different specialties uh some of you study biology some of you study physics mathematics um and uh there's a chance that reading passage two or three will have a topic that's more familiar for you usually passage one is the easiest passage two gets more difficult passage three is even more difficult but that's not always true for every candidate it also depends on your base knowledge so let's say that you're majoring in mathematics and one of the reading passages passage three is something about learning math then you might want to start with that passage it could be easier does everybody get that so start with the topic that you feel is the closest to what you have been learning or experiencing in your life because that will give you more confidence it will give you more comprehension is that clear jay neil says yeah thumbs up that's good all right so it just takes a quick second but always start with that now of course here we're doing this passage mountains of ice so we're only doing one passage but in the actual test start with the one that you feel is the most familiar okay and then step two is to read the title look at the picture if there is one and predict the information by asking what why how about the passage so we'll do that right now okay and if you've done this before great it's going to be good practice right now so let's say that you open up your reading section you see this uh picture of this big piece of ice floating in the water and then you read the title mountains of ice so the first question that you ask is what is a mountain of ice in the water and what would be your answer to that so practice your critical thinking here practice your english hi natalie good to see you in the class it's nice to see so many members joining in at this time that's fantastic so if you look at this and you go okay what is a mountain of ice alpha says it's an iceberg and alpha what is that so if you looked up when you think about the what question think about it like if i looked this up in a dictionary what would it tell me okay so it is an iceberg okay what is an iceberg okay so it is an iceberg and what's an iceberg so how would you describe that and keep yourself in english this is really important so don't start thinking in your own language but stay in english throughout the whole test super important um okay alpha says it's part of a broken glacier okay it's uh let's phrase that a little bit clearer alpha so it's a piece of ice that's broken off from a glacier right so a part of ice that's broken off from a glacier where okay so give as complete of an answer as possible okay so saga says it's a piece of ice derived from a continent not quite saga because uh on in the north pole where we have uh a large piece of ice shield if you will or from greenland uh those aren't actually continents okay uh and natalie says in the ocean right so uh if we take alpha's answer we take saga's answer and we take natalie's answer we put them all together we start to get a good definition right so it is an iceberg it is a large a piece of ice which has broken off a glacier in the north or south pole usually right so in the north or south poles of the planet floating in the ocean okay so in the ielts it's especially important to be as complete as possible with your answers okay uh does everybody agree that this would be most likely uh the definition that we would read in the dictionary if we looked up what is an iceberg or what is a mountain of ice it's a large piece of ice which has broken off a glacier in the north or south pole floating in the ocean okay uh victor thanks for coming on board thanks for the props i appreciate that yeah so there we go that's what it is okay so now you have clarity okay so you've formed the idea of what you're reading about what's the next question so asking the right question is just as important actually i would argue it's more important than giving the right answer so what's the next question that i would ask about this topic so now we know what a mountain of ice is it's a glacier or sorry it's a iceberg it's a large chunk of ice that's broken off from a glacier what's the next question what should i ask for myself and this is happening very fast okay so here we're taking time to dissect to express and explain this in detail but in the official house this is happening in your brain very very quickly and i did the same steps when i did my ielts a few weeks ago and i got a band 9 in my reading so so natalie says why does it exist or alpha is saying why did it break off yeah sag is saying why do icebergs emerge so you're asking the right questions okay so sure why do icebergs come into existence okay good question uh give me a nice full sentence answer for this one okay so why does an iceberg come into existence why does this phenomenon happen so why do we see icebergs floating in the ocean and again really focus on giving detailed answers taking time to do this and giving a good detailed answer we're really help you to understand the passage and answer questions quickly and efficiently getting high band scores okay sometimes students think ah this is wasting so much time i should just skim or scan for answers but that's not effective you have to have comprehension to get those high band scores band seven to nine okay it's not enough just to skim read or to just quickly go through the passage and the questions and try to match up information it's not going to work especially on the academic aisles it's not going to work okay general maybe for some of the section one and two passages but not for uh the academic or for section three okay so why do they exist what does an iceberg exist give me a nice detailed answer it should be one or two sentences okay so saga says the density between water and ice has a difference uh that's why this piece splits from the larger great glacier it okay saga you the first part is correct so yes there's a difference in density between ice and water so frozen water and and liquid water but it's not why it splits i don't think that's why glaciers break apart um it's more the reason of why they float right so the difference in density is the reason that ice floats in water doesn't just sink to the bottom of the ocean okay alpha says the most common reason icebergs exists is because of global warming global warming raises the temperature of the earth in recent years causing glaciers to melt and break apart okay alpha force i agree so global warming is definitely a good reason maybe we don't go into that much detail and we just say warmer weather uh causes uh glaciers to break apart okay i agree and now we can add saga's answer so and the difference in the density of ice and water allows the ice to float okay um so this is why they exist okay so again think about being specific with why and how and this is where sometimes students say oh so ielts isn't just testing my english it's also testing my knowledge of science and other information the answer that question is yes ielts does test your school knowledge aside from simply your knowledge of english especially the academic ielts that's why there's the academic ielts and the general ielts academic ielts is testing not only your english but it's testing your base knowledge and your communication that's the reality so it's a good idea to read up and make sure that you have a lot of this kind of base high school knowledge of science and facts okay sarab good morning to you as well okay all right so the next question is what what would you ask next so we've asked the what are icebergs we've asked the why do icebergs exist and what would you ask next so thinking about this topic this passage thinking about the author the writer of this passage what would be the most sensible how question here what how question would mostly uh help you to understand the passage so what's the how question here what do you think so again what i said just a moment ago often the question asking the right question is more important than thinking about the right answer and in this case it's very very true so what would be the right how question here uh so saga says how they continue to exist uh no i don't think so saga i think there's a better how question think about humans think about people humans are egocentric we think about ourselves primarily so what do you think would be the best how question yeah very good gineal so danielle says how do they affect human beings other creatures okay um natalie says the same the effect of this phenomenon so yeah natalie the um the question is the how yeah humans are egocentric right so how does this affect us so how do icebergs affect people uh we're very egocentric as humans this is partly to our benefit this is partly to our deficit certainly but we do view the world from our own eyes from our own uh experience so asking the how question because this is the reason this author is giving you this information so how do they affect us so how do icebergs affect humans it's a good question what's the answer to that so how do icebergs affect people what would be a good answer to that so how do icebergs what what are the main impacts that icebergs have on humanity i mean the planet doesn't really care it's had warmer and colder periods through the millions of years but we care as humans so how does it affect us what would be a good answer to that okay so alpha says it raises the sea level or the water level of the oceans okay yeah absolutely and as we know most of our major cities are situated near uh the ocean of course we're highly dependent on water yeah alpha forest good correction on the spelling so oceans so the water levels in the oceans increase what else do they do so how do icebergs affect people well the melting of icebergs uh raise sea levels and yeah so saga says icebergs float without orders or without restriction so people need to think about that because ships can be affected they can sink ships right so and they can be dangerous for ships right they can sink ships absolutely okay good so that's what you need to think about all right now students um this information that we have so far so we asked the what are icebergs why do they exist how does it affect people and we came up with some answers you have to train yourself for this kind of thinking when you read the title and you have to think about this what why how in no more than two to three minutes okay so you don't have a lot of time and you need to be accurate and you need to be detailed is that clear so you have to think of good questions and answers after reading the title in two minutes okay so you don't have as much time as what we just did of course you have to do this fast and it takes training so you have to practice this at home okay all right so now yeah and it has an impact on climate absolutely nico it changes the actual temperature of the atmosphere as well good yeah so transportation danger for ships very good okay next step step three is you look at the questions okay now we look at the questions and the first set of questions that we have are yes no not given this is kind of like a true false not given this type of question you should not read before you read the passage because there is false and not given information that is confusing so don't read this if you're taking the computer-based exam it's easy to ignore these types of questions because you have a drop-down menu okay has anybody taken the computer-based exam from our members with these true false or yes no not given you actually have drop down menus so you have to click on them for the options to drop down so it's really easy to ignore them because they're very very short so you just kind of go over them and don't pay attention okay you realize oh it's yes not given no point in reading these if you're doing the paper-based you have to be a little bit more um active in ignoring them because you do see the full questions and everything there but if you're doing the computer-based it's really easy to ignore them because they're drop down menus okay all right so then you go to the next one and the next one says complete the summary below so this is a summary completion type question summary completion type questions they're great to read because they're taken directly from the passage and they're usually paraphrased so they use different words to describe the same information that's in the passage so they're really good to read quickly but just read them quickly don't read these questions slowly and you don't have to try to understand these questions a hundred percent just read them fast don't try to think about the answers so here we go everyone read this question with me so let's do this from the top the sinking of the titanic okay so some of you might realize oh that's a ship and that's what i was thinking about with the how question they're dangerous for ships and one of the really famous examples of that is the titanic the titanic sank after hitting an iceberg so here we go read with me this is about the speed that you need to read because there was no international group which monitored icebergs in 1912 it was the sole responsibility of the something to make sure there were no icebergs in the ship's path the chief reason the iceberg wasn't detected was the something of the sea that night because of this there were no waves crashing against the iceberg making it difficult to spot the captain swerved but the iceberg scraped the side of the ship ripping the something of the ship things should have been fine nevertheless but the water tight compartments were poorly designed and once the water was in a few compartments it was able to something into all the others this was a major engineering defect that resulted in the eventual sinking okay so when we're reading this um we're getting some ideas we know there's going to be information about the sinking of the titanic while i'm reading this i should be reminded of a key strategy to incorporate into my reading okay uh saga take the paper-based exam if you're not comfortable touch typing if you're comfortable touch typing i recommend doing the computer-based exam okay so while i'm reading this summary what should that remind me of there should be a strategy that should be like a red light in your head going okay i gotta do this i gotta do this so what should you do what should you do you're reading about the titanic you're reading this information about the titanic hitting an iceberg and sinking what should you be doing while you're reading this there's a very important strategy okay so a key strategy that you should implore throughout the reading is what what is it students that do this get higher band scores every time guaranteed okay and what is that strategy daniel says reminding me that during the reading passage i pay attention to understanding not necessarily okay saga says read the passage first before answering yeah you should read the passage skimming and scanning the passage only will not really help you to get high band scores especially for people who have good english okay it's not going to be effective but there's something else that it should be reminding you to do um alpha says looking for paraphrasing rahul says thinking of probable answers and not really rahul thinking of probable answers can actually get you into trouble they kind of think about that when they make the test and they often will be the opposite of what you might think is the probable answer so you got to be really careful with probable answers rahul it's not bad to do that but just be careful okay natalie says see the main idea natalie the word that i like the most in your response is c okay so reading is visualize okay so here you should have seen yourself as the captain capitan of the titanic and you hit an iceberg okay so that's what you should be uh reminded of is that you need to visualize you need to see what's going on okay and be active so you're not just watching a tv while you read but you're a part of that information so you're a passenger on the titanic you're the captain of the titanic you see that iceberg oh there it is i have to do something oh no i hit the iceberg i'm sinking okay all right so visualize the passage always visualize the passage i know i say that every time but it's so very important okay people forget to do that right so visualize the passage all right and then here for the last uh few questions 10 11 12 13 we have fill in the blanks okay so complete the sentences uh choose no more than two words from the passage so you're using words from the passage and we read these because they're included in the passage okay so here we go number ten to avoid a titanic like disaster in the future something form the international ice patrol ipp the ipp's goal is to track the relevant data and something of the iceberg the canadian space agency bounces something off the water to measure iceberg movement this data renders large-scale maritime disasters something okay all right good so we read the questions that were valuable we ignored the questions like true false not given or multiple choice answers that are invaluable and then we read the passage itself all right so when you master this when you're practicing this at home and you use the correct strategy you're going to have really nice flow during the reading section and you're going to get those high band scores okay all right so the next step is to actually read the passage and to visualize especially when it's a very physical passage like an iceberg so here we go everyone let's read this together and visualize now pay attention to picturing the information because i'm going to ask you what you see okay so here we go mountains of ice the word iceberg derives from the dutch word isbach meaning ice mountain icebergs are sections of glaciers that have broken off during the warmer summer months and float freely in open water icebergs are typically found in open water predominantly around greenland and antarctica the characteristics of icebergs their historical impact and the methods we employ today to monitor them are important topics the reason icebergs exist is because of the difference between the density of ice and the density of salt water the density of ice is approximately 920 kilograms per cubic meter while the density of salt water is approximately 1025 kilograms per cubic meter because ice is less dense than water it floats however because the difference in densities is so small only about 10 of the iceberg is visible above the ocean surface the rest of the iceberg hides below the water this is the origin of the familiar expression tip of the iceberg used to describe a situation where only part of the problem is noticeable so when you read this paragraph describing why icebergs exist what do you see okay answer this question for me in one or two sentences so what do you see while reading this information about the existence of icebergs now for effective visualization see the picture clearly include yourself in the image and make it interesting that way your brain will catalog the information it will keep the order of the information clear and it will allow you to use the information effectively when you're answering questions so what do you see when you read this kind of scientific information about why icebergs exist why this phenomenon happens what do you see okay i have a couple of clear images when you practice visual reading you'll eventually become very very you'll really start enjoying reading as well you'll become very visual when you read information okay so natalie says i see the top of the iceberg and under the surface there's a huge part below yeah and how do you include yourself natalie into that image so i agree with you that's part of it you see that there's a small part above and there's a big part below okay rashika says there's a small part of the iceberg floating in the ocean yeah okay i'll tell you what i see so when i'm seeing that i also see that small part and then i see this big huge part below the water and i see myself okay swimming under the ocean uh with uh some scuba gear okay there's some fishes around me or fish i should say there's no such word as fishes of course it's not countable so fish so there's some fish around me i'm scuba diving and i'm like wow that's a big chunk of ice under the ocean there's probably a small piece that's above the ocean as well okay natalie says i'm sitting on top of it and i'm looking down good natalie yeah so you want to be in there somewhere okay i'm scuba diving and i'm like whoa look at that huge piece of ice under the water okay absolutely so see it be a part of it take part in the information that you read it will be much easier okay jenelle says i'm a researcher i'm in a ship and i see uh 50 feet of iceberg above and 150 feet below in fact you would see 450 feet of ice below gineel but it's a great start yeah absolutely okay all right so that's what you want to do you want to visualize let's keep going here icebergs range in height from one meter all the way up to over 75 meters above sea level the height measures the visible portion of the iceberg the tallest icebergs may have a total height of over 650 meters including their underwater portion the largest ever recorded was 168 meters above the water meaning the entire height of this floater was likely greater than 1500 meters for reference that is twice the height of most skyscrapers different sized icebergs have different name classifications the smallest icebergs are called brash ice the next category up in size is called growlers and the ones after that are called bergie bits for whatever reason after those three classes the people in charge of naming the icebergs got a little less creative the next classes simply range from small to very large icebergs can be massive objects very large icebergs can weigh more than 200 000 tons the largest iceberg ever recorded was over 30 000 square kilometers in area again for reference that is the approximate size of the country of belgium okay so we're reading we're continuing to visualize we see this big iceberg that's as big as a country now my speed of reading okay when you're doing the reading section don't rush okay focus on comprehension you have 20 minutes for each passage it's enough time to read and answer accurately so the speed that i'm reading is absolutely okay in the official ielts to read at that speed i am paying attention to one important detail while i'm reading did anybody catch what that is so while i'm reading these paragraphs and these sentences i'm not really reading super fast so if i were reading super fast i would be reading like different size i perk up different meaning classifications the small size burger called brass ice the next category up in sizes called growlers and the ones after that are called burgundy bits for whatever reason after those three causes the people in charge of naming the icebergs got a little less creative the next class simply ranges from small to very large i supposed to be massive very large so i'd be reading like that okay if i were rushing but i'm not doing that i'm reading at a fairly comfortable pace but i'm paying attention to one really important detail what am i paying attention to did anybody catch that while you're following with me and i hope that you're reading with me everyone what am i really paying attention to while reading and it's very important to do this okay can anybody tell me what that is so what detail or what element of my reading is there that has to be there that i have to be really careful about what is that rahul says names and numbers coming in the passage uh good good try rahul not quite saga says comprehension absolutely saga comprehension but that's not what i'm thinking about however this is helping my comprehension a lot okay so what is it what's helping my comprehension okay and a lot of students do not do this and they i think they definitely lose scores because of it okay because it affects comprehension so other than just the information victor says it's the visualization i'm definitely visualizing victor i mean that's yeah we're talking about that certainly i'm doing that but it's not just that that i'm thinking about here okay saga says slow flow um saga you're on the right track because you can feel it but you haven't put your thumb on it yet nico says to understand the passage note important key information yes but how am i doing that okay it's a little bit of a tricky question and it's one a lot of students don't pay attention to even native speakers when they're doing exams often will forget to do this and it's not good okay so in order to increase your comprehension while reading it is very important to observe and follow the rules of punctuation commas semicolons periods and paragraph breaks okay you have to be especially careful to do this when reading silently okay so um really pay attention to punctuation what a lot of students do and not only [Music] non-native english speakers but also native english speakers tend to do this as well is they carelessly ignore commas periods and they just read through them they just it's like they're just kind of line reading the information that's a really bad idea because it melts together okay so natalie says i notice pauses yeah okay it's very important to do that okay those pauses are a very important part of literature and they help your comprehension so don't just skim through those pauses that's really bad okay definitely stop for commas stop for periods because they complete ideas okay a comma says that an idea has completed there's additional information a period says that there's a complete idea a new idea is coming and a paragraph break says that you've completed an entire concept and we're moving on to another concept okay so really important yeah victor says it's true even in my mother tongue yeah absolutely victor so uh one sure way to lose marks is just to read mechanically through everything so don't do that okay all right so observe punctuation even if you read fast stop for periods and commas and paragraph breaks okay all right here we go so um let's continue the most famous iceberg in history is undoubtedly the one which eventually sunk the english sip ship titanic off the coast of newfoundland in 1912. at that point in time there was no central group which monitored iceberg activity ships relied on lookouts to spot the icebergs for the titanic the unfortunate attitude was that any iceberg big enough to do damage to the ship would be seen in time this attitude was of course catastrophically wrong the main reason it failed was the remarkable calmness of the water that ill-fated night the easiest way to spot an iceberg from afar is to see waves crashing up against it but on the night of the titan on the night the titanic sank there were no such helpful waves for all intents and purposes the iceberg was invisible until it was too late the captain swerved at the last minute but as the side of the ship scraped across the iceberg the hull of the ocean liner tore open things still may have been fine had it not been for the poorly designed watertight compartments it turns out that when too many compartments were affected the water was simply able to spill over to all the other compartments this was an engineering defect that contributed to the titanic's sinking okay now one way to practice your punctuation is of course to read out loud so okay so i highly highly recommend doing that i'm not sure how often you do that but uh if somebody were to ask me i would say that roughly 20 to 30 percent of your reading practice at home should be done aloud how many of you are doing that members so how many of you are reading aloud 30 of the time that you're reading english text and you're practicing and just be honest with yourselves it's you know i'm just curious also as a teacher how much students know about this and how much they do it so how many of you let's say let's meet in the middle a quarter of the time so if you read an hour then you're reading 15 minutes allowed so that you can actually hear yourself and hear yourself pausing for all those commas and periods so danielle says me saga says i always read aloud at home that's very good sage yeah so more frequently reading aloud is better than less frequently absolutely okay all right good um great great so here we go after the disaster of the titanic maritime authorities realized that a system needed to be put into place to monitor icebergs so that such a catastrophe would not be repeated by 1914 the international ice patrol ipp was formed their purpose was to track all of the relevant meteorological and oceanographical data and to chart the movement of all major icebergs today technology is used to track iceberg data the canadian space agency has multiple radar satellites which send microwaves off the ocean surface and record the reflection to track the movement of the icebergs maritime vessels have access to this information in real time which allows them to know exactly where any local icebergs are at any moment meaning that a repeat of the titanic disaster is virtually impossible okay good all right so that's the end of the passage now we're ready to answer some questions okay oh one more quick tip notice that here we had a couple of words that are these are difficult to pronounce uh for anyone native or non-native english speakers meteorological and oceanographical uh when you're reading these silently or allowed don't try to pronounce them too much okay just read through them so don't lose your comprehension because you get stuck on a word that's a really bad idea okay so do not get stuck on difficult words just go through them okay very important right okay so now we get to yes no not given number one icebergs are sections of glaciers that have broken off in the winter months what do we need to figure out first when we see a true false not given or yes no not given what do we need to think about or figure out first when we read one of these questions can anybody tell me okay don't give me the answer yet sagam so hold your answer for a moment uh before we so we don't want to be too quick with these okay with true false not given we want to figure something out so janil says we want to figure out if they're important or not why do we want to know that janil yeah so rahul says we want to figure out whether the sentence is important for this passage or not why do we want to figure that out so why do we want to figure out if it's important or not what does that allow us to do okay and i agree with you so important or not sure because that allows us to figure out what yeah sago says it allows us to figure out if it's given or not given right so it's kind of a two-step process first we want to figure out if it's given or if it's not given so here the question says icebergs are sections of glaciers that have broken off in the winter months so this is telling us what icebergs are clearly that is important for the passage so that tells me that it's given so now that i know that it's given i can figure out if it's yes or no so there are sections of glaciers that have broken off in the winter months yeah exactly so danielle says no it's not okay now saga this is where you want to be really careful because you said false but this is a yes no not given question so you have to say no okay in the computer-based exam you cannot make a mistake because all you do is you choose no from the drop down menu but in the paper-based exam sometimes students will write false instead of no and they'll get that wrong okay so make sure if you're doing the paper-based saga don't write false but write no otherwise you're otherwise you'll get it wrong okay so that's a no all right number two icebergs exist because of the different densities of ice and salt water is it important to know for this passage why icebergs exist is that important i think so right it answers the question of why do icebergs exist we just read about that so yes so it's given and so the answer here do icebergs exist because there's a difference in densities and the answer is yes otherwise they would just sink to the bottom of the ocean and we wouldn't really think about them because they just would melt in the ocean right so we wouldn't see them all right number three ninety percent of the iceberg is hidden below the water again is it important to know uh how much of an iceberg we can see or not see and now this is of course connected to the how is it important for humans the danger to boats so this is a yes as well it's important and is it true that 90 of the iceberg is hidden below the water yes absolutely now here the passage is interesting because instead of saying this the passage says 10 percent is visible above the water so you have to use critical thinking if 10 percent is visible above the water that means 90 percent is hidden under the water so clearly this is a yes okay we're talking about 100 percent of the iceberg if we can see 10 percent above the water then 90 is hidden under the water right okay so careful the ielts exam is a thinking exam it's not enough to just use english but you have to think in english okay all right the name classifications of icebergs derive from the dutch language is it important to know what the name classifications of icebergs come from is this important to know what's the answer that so getting a little bit trickier you should know that these questions become more and more difficult as you move down so i noticed that when i did my ielts exam in february as well is that definitely it's very true that one and two for true false not given yes or no given it's kind of easier but then for four and five i remember for the last couple questions in my exam i really had to think i was like oh did the passage talk about that was it real or not so there they get quite tricky in the last couple so you have to be careful is it important to know where the name classifications of icebergs come from janelle says not rashika says yes this is a tricky one the answer is no it's not important it's too much detail so this is not given the name iceberg comes from dutch isperg but the name classification like bergy bits and so on they don't and if you remember the name okay so remember one of them was bergy bits i can't remember how to spell it that doesn't sound like a dutch word at all anyway right so if you're really thinking about it critically you realize that ah it's too much detail it's not important okay uh some icebergs can be the size of a country so size important yes can they be as big as a country it said the country of belgium so definitely yes if you were visualizing this that was quite easy okay so no because winter months okay no yes yes not given and yes those are the correct answers all right so again for this type of question figure out whether it's given first or not given and then figure out whether it agrees or disagrees with the passage then you can get the right answers and it's a sure way to get correct answers and be confident in your answers okay true false not given yes or no given they're not that bad as long as you practice this strategy and uh you might have to look at the passage for one or two but for yes no not given questions you should be able to answer three or four of the questions without reading okay so just from uh reading the passage once without going back i should say without going back and reading again all right okay all right members so i'm going to go through this we don't have a ton of time so give me answers quickly here um the sinking of the titanic because there was no international group which not monitored icebergs in 1912 it was the sole responsibility of the so the something to make sure there were no icebergs in the ship's path what's number six anybody tell me it's quite visual not the captain gineal good try though it's not really the captain that's looking for icebergs okay if you were visualizing this you should have seen the boat and at the top of the boat there's a kind of a perch it's called a crow's nest and in that crow's nest there's a person probably not standing that's looking okay good try with captain but it's not quite the captain the captain somewhere here captain is uh steering the ship okay so the captain's got the wheel another person up there looking at what's in the water yeah very good where she gets the lookout okay look out one word it's the lookout okay to make sure there were no icebergs in the ship's path the chief reason the iceberg wasn't detected was the calmness of the sea that night okay because of this there were no waves crashing against the iceberg making it difficult to spot the captain swerved but the iceberg scraped the side of the ship ripping the hall of the ship so think about hall this is hall this is the hall of the ship so this part the body of the boat is called the hull of the ship okay things should have been fine nevertheless but the water tight compartments were poorly designed and once the water was in a few compartments it was able to something into all the others now number nine i know that it's a verb and if i know the english word i can figure out that it's spill into the others this was a major engineering defect which resulted in the eventual sinking okay all right students unfortunately i'm out of time i spent a bit more time today talking about strategy like visualization critical thinking paying attention to punctuation and reading aloud so uh the last few questions these ones you'll have to do on your own but if you send me the answers to this i will send you back the answer key i'll let you know whether you got them right or wrong for all of our viewers you can review the passage try to answer these on your own and then you can send me your answers to adrian aehelp.com and i'll give you a special discount code for our premium package at aehelp.com and glshelp.com that's where you can find all of our exams videos uh strategies few dollars one-time payment lifetime access definitely worth to join that's it for now but i will be back in 30 minutes and we're going to start a task to reading passage where everybody can join the chat so definitely hang around in half an hour i will be back with task two writing we're going to talk about planning strategy the introduction natalie you're very very welcome thank you everyone for being here with me and hopefully i will see you soon i'm adrian i'm signing out for now and i'll catch you shortly good to see you rashika saga bye for now you

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