IELTS Live - Reading Section - Practice and Strategy for Band 9

hi students and welcome to today's live ielts class my name is adrian and i'm streaming to you from beautiful budapest here in the carpathian basin of europe hi amarjeet welcome members this is a members chat class everybody is welcome to watch and we are focusing on ielts reading using uh reading passages from our academic exams but of course for the general version of the test your reading section 3 is very very similar to the academic reading passages so it's great to study and if you can do a great job in the academic reading you will certainly do a good job in your general version of the test as well hi parmar hi beg john good to see you in class for doves today of course we have a new passage for you as well presented by our websites aehelp.com for academic ielts check us out there we're always expanding adding new materials we have lots and lots of materials to help you giltshelp.com for the general ielts we have six practice exams on each of those websites over 100 hours of video lessons in a fully interactive course with strategies and tips this is the academic web portal here ae help dot com click that big red button to join and this is the general site here again green background click that big red button to join us there of course we have apps that are supported and connected to the websites academic ielts help app connects to a help.com and general alice help connects to geilshelp.com so definitely check those out as well and if you have questions uh students about our courses or about the exam and just send me an email adrian aehelp.com i will gladly answer your questions to the best of my capacities uh lots of reading today everyone so today i kind of made it a reading day so we have reading in this class and then we'll have a 30-minute break and then another passage where everybody can join the chat so lots and lots of reading of course with reading you're always practicing your listening skills as well in these classes and when you read with me you're practicing your speaking skills also so make sure to read and enunciate okay so read and whenever possible read aloud okay reading aloud is a really important practice skill to improve your learning okay it's in a very effective mode of learning hearing yourself moving the muscles of your mouth your tongue so make sure to do that often hi carolina hi hassan hi boomi hi umar jeet again good to see many more members in the class let's get cracking let's get right into this so this is the reading passage for today this is coming from our ninth exam we are adding four more new uh practice exams uh based on the cambridge book 1415 so the latest exam standards and this is going to be our academic uh reading section for exam nine and we are into passage two today so we're looking at passage to and of course we always start by reading the title and then doing a bit of thinking about the title okay so read with me here uh students steve wozniak the visionary you've never heard of it's kind of interesting okay many members are probably realizing that the title to an essay once you get to university is kind of like your super hook it should uh summarize your whole essay and make the reader interested about what you're writing so uh steve wozniak the visionary you've never heard of what could that be so what do you think this passage will be about um just based on this title so you can always get some ideas and definitely i got a few ideas when i read this title uh what comes to mind when you read this steve wozniak the visionary you've never heard of of course it helps to know the word visionary here if you think of vision visionary you might come up with what that word means so what does what does the title mean here so what kind of information do you think of and visualize when you read this title okay give me your answers i'd love to hear what you come up with okay all right so parmar says the ceo of the apple company okay maybe if you know that information parmar uh mustafa says maybe some kind of an inventor musafir says somebody who invented something great definitely so a person who invented something great sure uh hassan says some kind of a pioneer in a specific field yeah absolutely uh perhaps a pioneer in a specific field yeah students the word pioneer that hassan is using here very well it's an explorer okay another way to say pioneer is explorer somebody who explores and is the first to do it so if you go to a part of the world where nobody has gone to and you discover what is there you are a pioneer and you can do that physically by pioneering it's a verb as well pioneering new places or you can pioneer ideas and inventions as well okay all right um good so i think a lot of you have thought about the word uh visionary but again don't forget that the title is a bit more detailed it says you've never heard of why does it say you've never heard of why do you think it would say you've never heard of so think about that as well okay so what does this mean you've never heard of why would the author write that okay so think of each uh element of the title okay because that will help you to better understand yeah so they're maybe less famous they're not so popular okay okay not in the limelight okay uh the limelight is that spotlight that you see on uh singers and actors when they're on the stage okay that's called the limelight uh beck john says somebody who is behind other inventors a person behind other inventors or overshadowed by other people yeah exactly so maybe there's some reason that we don't know about this person why they don't appear to be so famous good so that's great that's what you want to think about before you begin reading this okay so some inventor made some big contribution to pioneer but for some reason not very famous okay so we have some paragraphs here all the way to g and then we look at the questions so here it says reading passage 2 has seven paragraphs this is a very popular question type so we include it into these exams so reading passage two has seven paragraphs a to g which paragraph contains the following information so you see more and more of these kinds of question students that are created where simply skimming and scanning is just not possible it wastes too much time okay so we can read this all of this information is somewhere in the passage okay so information about vosniak's youth paraphrase it so background to vosniak's childhood years so many of the members who are in these classes regularly now uh you should be getting quite familiar and fluent uh with this kind of paraphrasing a stock price skyrockets okay so a stock value increases very quickly learning from another company's technology gaining information from a different businesses development okay the origins of apple in telephone technology so the start of apple's mobile technologies steve jobs steals from vosniak uh steve jobs loots from bosniak okay so there is some information there again paraphrasing uh now here we have complete the notes below so this is uh sentence completion again we read this type of question because it's all in the passage okay so uh here we go steve wozniak's beginnings apple is one of the biggest companies in the world though steve something has been the face of the company it is actually vosniak who provided a lot of the engineering and something ability bosniak was born at a time decades before the boom in san jose an area which would come to be nicknamed something bosniak got his start in technology in the 1970s by making a device called something that would allow for free long distance calls the profit from these devices was necessary so he could start something the company that would change the world soon after okay all right interesting and then we have a little bit of multiple choice here number 24 how much money did steve jobs unfairly take from steve wozniak two thousand one hundred fifty dollars seven hundred dollars twenty five hundred dollars or three hundred fifty dollars the choices you don't need to really read that might confuse you just focus on the question okay and again you might want to change this into a statement so uh steve jobs uh cheated wozniak out of this amount of money okay so that's how i would paraphrase this in my mind okay yeah i'm glad you're going to find this reading interesting carolina okay here we go um so let's keep going here's a sentence completion so complete each sentence with the correct ending so we have two sentence beginnings and we have five endings which means three of those are wrong so let's leave those answers and let's just look at the questions in just a few years after the time of its founding bosniaks something there may not be an exact link from bosniak's contributions to apple to the company today okay so definitely apple is involved here and that's it and then passage three the city of a thousand windows will be next class after this one in about an hour a little bit more so um we have some good ideas now we know that steve wozniak was probably a key person in the world of computers computer technology and in the making of the world's most valuable company known as apple did everybody get that so beck john parmar carolina for dobbs did you get that from looking at the questions that vosniak is a person who got cheated from fame and fortune but was likely very important in the apple company's creation and also probably a very brilliant person when it came to computers okay so that's about the information that you want to pick up from quickly going over these questions and then paraphrasing so carolina says yes vrdav says yeah i sure got that boomi too hassan fantastic so that's what you need to get from the questions okay not confusion not too much detail you're not searching for answers but you're getting a good idea of the passage okay all right so now we read when we read what should we do especially when we're practicing at home so while we're reading what do we really want to make sure that we're paying attention to what is key while you read i i want you to be very aware of this okay so let me ask you this another way um another way i can ask you this is what must you do to engage the information and practice active reading so you remember the information and the order of information okay so what must you do yeah visualize very good so picture it in your mind okay so picture the information in your mind okay and let's be specific so in this case what would be a good point of view for you the reader to visualize from okay so uh what would be a good point of view for you here so when you read this title when you go over these questions and you go okay i'm gonna make sure that i visualize what would be a good perspective what would be the right perspective to help you remember this so palmer says read loudly at home that's good too okay sure what would be a good perspective here so how should you visualize this okay you want to do more than just imagine a tv show because that's not very good for us to remember so hassan says sequence events with visual markers becjon says include yourself how can you include yourself here beck john good so use visual markers to sequence absolutely and include yourself okay right so how can you include yourself here you become yeah very good carolina um so carolina bang on uh right on carolina double super huge thumbs up oh um become the man become steve wozniak yeah okay so if you imagine that you are steve wozniak and you're reading your life story here i bet you're going to do a much better job remembering of what's happening so think about it not just like you're reading about some person but you're reading about yourself cool okay that makes sense right very good uh good critical thinking carolina all right so let's do that as we read visualize become steve wozniak here we go so read with me students read with me here we go so founded in 1976 apple computer now apple inc is one of the world's biggest companies whatever way biggest is measured sales market capitalization cultural impact or otherwise apple is top of the chart or very near the top for decades steve jobs was the face of apple he was the person on stage promoting the ipod iphone ipad etc profoundly intelligent though he undoubtedly was jobs was not the brains behind apple's technological accomplishments in the early years instead it was job's friend steve wozniak affectionately known as vaz who provided much of the intellectual and technological ability that made apple into an overnight success all right so we are vaz steve jobs steve bosniak all right so far so good so we're the brains of the apple company especially in the early years here we go steve wozniak was born in 1950 in san jose california usa though his brilliance was clear from a young age his geographic place of birth was a significant factor in his impact on the computing world in 1950 san jose was a small suburb of san francisco with a population of under a hundred thousand over the next seven decades san jose's population would balloon by a factor of 10 and by over 20 when taking into account the metro population this extreme growth was not an accident led by companies like apple san jose became the epicenter of what came to be known as silicon valley the beating heart of global technological advances in the late 20th and early 21st centuries wozniak was gifted both intellectually and geographically he had the intellectual ability to create and develop the devices he did but he was also born into the exact location on the entire planet in which their development was taking hold and was valued okay so again we're visualizing right so i'm vaz i'm the brains and hey lucky me i am born in san jose the beating heart of the technological advancement of the 20th 21st century how lucky for me all right so those visual cues and hassan was absolutely right we're setting these visual cues to create that systematic logical order of information so that we can be much more efficient and much faster when we're answering the questions okay here we go c uh vosniak's a beginning in the world of technology was his development of what he called a blue box which enabled a user to make long distance calls at no cost in the early 1970s this was an incredible accomplishment wozniak already together with his friend and business partner jobs sold over 200 of these blue boxes at a cost of 150 dollars each nine hundred and twenty eight dollars in 2020 without the profit from the blue boxes jobs admitted decades later there would have been no apple so thanks to the blue box we have an app blue box apple okay again very visual right so you can imagine the blue box and the blue box becomes the apple there you go okay and of course as we know apple has that little bite out of it okay so there we go so again very visual okay even though the information is somewhat abstract about technology it's quite visual okay so far so good here we go and the more you practice this kind of active reading and visual reading the better the faster you will become okay all right here we go um d the relationship between jobs and wozniak was complicated when the video game manufacturer atari offered 100 that's 612 in 2020 for every chip that was eliminated from the circuit board job who worked at atari at the time offered to split the income with wozniak if he could reduce the number of chips used in the circuit board wozniack did by 50. but jobs told wozniak atari only awarded him 700 instead of 5 000 and gave vosniak 350 dollars instead of 2 500 pocketing the difference bosniak found out a decade later but for gabe jobs well that jobs eh it's quite the character all right so here again visual there's a bit of math it's clear hopefully e in the early to mid 1970s vosniak and jobs worked out of jobs parents garage on the first apple computer bosniak was in charge of the technical end while jobs was tasked with marketing bosniak had gained computer development experience and expertise through the homebrew computer club a silicon valley group that used the altair 8800 micro computer do-it-yourself kit based on intel's 8080 microprocessor one of the world's first oh sorry students i got so carried away with my reading i forgot to boot the camera right anyway i'll give you a little bit of time to think while i restart the camera there for us and just one shake of a lamb's tail there we go that's so excited with this reading hope everybody's still with me i saw the kind of chat kind of stopped there as well so i'm guessing that many of you are finding this somewhat interesting maybe for some of you it's familiar okay uh so let's keep going um so based on 8080 processor one of the world's first this framework would become the foundation of apple's first computer with money from the blue boxes wozniak's previous work at hewlett packard and the sale of jobs's car the two young men started apple computer thanks carolina all right let's keep going so this is obviously the start of apple the company and what it took to get there and the technology that was behind apple computer okay all right within four years the blink of an eye in the time of an investor apple's value exceeded a billion dollars that would have been a good investment at the time it was the fastest rise to that mark in history in that short time bosniak had become a multi-millionaire and it was largely due to his development of the cutting edge and paradigm shifting apple ii computer the apple ii broke the barrier between those people who played around with computers as a hobby and the general public it had color graphics an integrated programming language basic and an optional five point two five five and a quarter inch external floppy drive every family in the early 1980s wanted an apple computer and the value of apple reflected this cultural value all right so rise of apple to become a powerful company here we go a g though apple would go on to become one of the world's biggest companies in the coming decades the journey was not smooth and both vosniak and jobs would leave the company in the 1980s though jobs would return to apple with much fanfare amidst the production of his 21st century marvels such as the iphone wozniack would not return except in a so-called ceremonial capacity apple has changed markedly since wozniak left the company in 1985. while it is difficult to draw a direct line between wozniak's contributions to the company and for example the modern iphone it is clear that apple would not exist in its current form without the technological brilliance that steve wozniak brought to the jobs family garage so many decades ago all right so there is a conclusion a summary of course uh to this now let's see how well we kept that visual image and how well uh we can answer these questions without necessarily having to jump back to the text here we go uh question number 15 information about vosniak's youth which paragraph do we get that from number 14. i have a pretty good idea i don't think i need to go back at all uh i know that it was in the introduction it was in the beginning hassan says a i don't think it was a hassan remember hassan a was about the brains of the company okay yeah just a sec i'll move the screen let me see okay all right yeah so the popular vote here is b i agree b uh remember that in paragraph b that's where we read about uh f a i thought that i'm the um brains of uh okay so it's a brain um and then in paragraph b the additional information that i got is that i landed dab center in san jose okay as a little kid yay all right so yeah musafir that's right b because waz was born in the place of technological boom right in the 1950s remember we got that information 1950s okay so uh at the least you'll know which part of the passage it's coming from which will help you if you have to look okay number 15 a stock price skyrockets so the value of the stock price increases dramatically uh which is that okay where did that come from so there apple was established mustafa says i'm pretty sure i remember seeing that in f okay yeah very nice so musafir says prophet of apple um they become millionaires and you visualize that very well mr fear and good for you it is f okay so the correct answer there is f very good profits of apple becoming a billion dollar company it was f very nice good oh well you can do this now um in the official exam so let's say you're like 99 sure okay what you can do uh because if you're doing this um like the turtle where you're slow and steady and you're taking the steps you can say okay i'm like 1995 sure that it's f uh if you're right it only okay within four years the blink of an eye in the time of an investor apple's value exceeded a billion dollars was the fastest rise to that mark in history okay so okay cool i know it's right now you're a hundred percent sure okay so when you're 90 sure you can check to close that 10 it will only take you a couple of seconds is that clear does that make sense to everyone yeah okay so that one is f um number 16 learning from another company's technology uh boomi you say my voice is cracking i think my connection seems okay on my side if anybody else is experiencing that let me know okay all right um so 16 learning from another company's technology uh we talked that was very clear um it was intel right so it was around c or d maybe maybe a little bit after it was um i remember intel it was the intel 8080 chip okay that kind of stuck in my mind uh so let's intel 8080 is that's really easy to look for right up there it is look at that can almost match up my writing with the text there so intel 8080 microprocessor right the alta ear 8080 micro computer let me see if i can fix my voice crackling just give me a second okay um let if my voice is still crackling let me know it's uh something that i might not have power over so here it's e okay so uh with these matching um the question the statement to the paragraph you want to think about what area in the passage beginning middle or end and you also want to think about the information because sometimes you might not remember the exact paragraph but if you remember the information like intel 8080 it's very very clear okay all right hang in there hang with me uh hopefully that will fix it and then switch batteries after this class maybe that might be it as well okay um so okay number 17 the origins of apple in telephone technology okay let's see if that helps um i kind of felt like that came um somewhere the beginning it was a little bit tricky okay uh beck john says that was c for dob says that was c as well um blue box yeah we visualized blue box very clearly so yeah remember what the blue box was used for it was huge innovation at that time blue box anybody remember i thought it was really easy to remember it that way the blue box was for what was it used for the blue box just for fun let's see was really yeah long distance calls for free right can you imagine at that time it cost a fortune okay i'm here mismatching 18 steve jobs steals from bosniak yeah very good and steve jobs steals from bosniak i kind of remember how much as well so steve jobs steals from bosniak uh where was that from this last one here yes around again super easy to check uh because it's all those numbers right where he didn't pay his fair share for those chips um so uh there yeah you can see it so the relationship between jobs and then it gives all these numbers so i remember that that's d okay so again when you're 90 percent sure it only takes a second to 100. apple is one of the biggest companies in the world though steve something has been the face of the company steve what i bet all of you can get this i'm gonna have to shrink the screen a little bit so that it all fits here we go okay uh jobs very good and uh mustafa make sure that j is big right i know it sounds like a word but it's a name jobs uh so steve jobs has been the face of the company it is actually vosniak who provided a lot of the engineering and something ability does anybody remember without searching what the other word was i clearly remember that engineering and something ability yeah very good beck john intellectual uh it's two l's so he has the right spelling okay intellectual ability okay into luck jewel ability okay now if you don't remember the spelling does anybody remember where that comes from so where does this information come from if i have to check the spelling of intellectual where do i need to look which paragraph this is what that matching paragraph really helps me with okay so which paragraph yeah very good boomi that was the first paragraph absolutely remember that was the thesis okay always pay attention to the thesis uh instead it was jobs friend steve wozniak affectionately known as waz who provided much of the intellectual and technological ability that made apple into an overnight success so that's the thesis always pay special attention uh to the thesis okay all right okay let's keep going vosniak was born at a time decades before the boom in san jose an area which would come to be nicknamed what so what became the name of this place came to be known as yeah very good beck john silicon valley and again you can check that spelling if you remember that was paraguay right so click valley valley is the area between two mountain ranges okay silicon is spelled s-i-l-i-c-o-n again it's a name so big s big v very important uh vosnia got his start in technology in the 1970s by making a device called a something that would allow for free long distance calls i bet everybody is going to get that now and remember here students when you hear see this word called uh uh it's safe to write yeah uh not black blue and here i would write it as blue box because it's the name of a product so again capitals on the b's okay so blue box the name of a product just like apple so big b big b okay carolina careful with that when you see called okay you're safe to write capital letters because it's going to be the name of the product okay this is where if you're writing all capitals like musafir is doing then you're on the safe side okay all right that would allow for free long distance calls the profit from these devices was necessary so he could start something the company that would change the world soon after so what is 23 i think all of you can get that again what's that number 23 yeah very good for doves apple and of course big a right for the same reason that uh blue box so apple so one of you know these uh answers they look kind of simple but where you have to be really careful is notice all the capitals so capital j capital s capital capital b capital a so only one answer here can be all lowercase which is this intellectual uh ability okay so this one doesn't need to be capital because it's a con but these other ones here are all capitals okay so you have to be super duper careful musafir i think that's a tomato but it looks similar okay all right um zahab that's probably because many of the students in the class have been doing this practice a little bit longer but when you do it more as a hub you will remember like everyone okay all right um so we're in the final stretch here for our questions 24 how much money did steve jobs unfairly take from steve wozniak hey 1150 b 700 c 2500 or d uh 350 hassan says 2500 no hassan i no no it's not right boomi says it's a why is it a boomi so boomi says a is the correct answer why is it a tell me that okay so y is a correct bring that down a bit so a is correct why is that correct yeah everybody looking at boomi's math there so boomi says jobs should have given 2500 to bosniak but he only gave bosnia 350 which means that he cheated wozniak out of 2150 okay simple math um again yeah carolina it's a math question that's right um so sometimes in the listening and in the reading section you have to do this kind of simple math question okay everybody clear on how boomy got that correct answer i beg john got that correct answer okay so the company paid them 5 000 right split between two each one should have gotten 2 500 for jobs and for was okay but jobs only gave was 350 lied about the rest okay all right um so good good good so a make sure that in the answer sheet you write a and not twenty one hundred years not two thousand one hundred fifty okay so careful with that complete each sentence with the correct ending below uh in just a few years after the time of this founding vosniaks something how can you finish the sentence without looking at choices so in just a few years after the time of its founding vosniaks something how would you finish that bosniak's what according to this information that you read um after the time of its founding probably apple is what we're talking about here how bosniaks left the company something like that yeah i think carolina left the company vosniaks uh resigned or wozniak's work no longer or wozniak contributions were no longer thing like that okay uh which one so those contributions were plentiful in the 1980s but the company could not have existed without him bosniak's net worth was over a million dollars had created the basic programming language had gone from a garage to multi-million dollar success uh left the company is not there so which one of these is grammatically and um information-wise the best answer yeah see okay because that would be the other way in just a few years after the time it was founding vosniak's bank account was a million dollars so c correct okay right good and number 26 uh there may not be an exact link from vosniak's contributions to apple to the company today so there may not be an exact link from vosniak's contributions to apple to the company today how would you finish that one on your own before looking at the choices i would finish it with but apple wouldn't exist without him okay so that's that's how i would finish that i think uh so let's see anything there those contributions were plentiful in the 1980s but the company could not have existed without him oh that's an exact match so when you have an exact match just pick it yeah beck john very good so bechten says apple would not exist okay so just remember students uh this is a review for some of you and for some of our newer members this is new information uh when you're doing this kind of multiple choice because this is a type of multiple choice the trick is the same as with all multiple choice questions think about the answers on your own first then choose the correct one okay so is that clear everybody so it doesn't matter there are lots of different kinds of multiple choice questions in the ielts and if some of you take the toefl exam toefl has the same so toefl is all multiple choice but there are many kinds of multiple choice questions in toefl as well not just one kind so any time you do a multiple choice exam read the question think about it carefully think about the answer and then search for the answer not the other way okay don't look at the answers first all right um so uh members just one last question for me how's my voice now can you hear me okay i reset the audio there uh in the blink of an eye did you hear crackling in the last 10 minutes or was it clear because i'm not going to play around with it in the 30 minutes so in the last 10 minutes did my voice crack or was it okay okay carolina says it was better for dove says it was okay all right so no that means no crackling carolina or just kind of better okay perfect super glad to hear it okay um let's keep this energy going everyone so take a 30 minute break uh eat a sandwich have a cup of tea or as the british say take a cup of tea and come back in 30 minutes and we'll do another reading which will have different kinds of questions it will be the third passage from exam 9 which will of course be the more challenging one so come back for it zahab fantastic to have you in the class to keep it going alright everyone remember for lots more practice use our websites aehelp.com for academic ielts and gltshelp.com for general hopefully uh you've checked that out um and i will be back in 30 minutes and everybody will be able to join the chat for this next reading uh thanks so much see you soon bye for now you you

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Published: Thu Aug 06 2020