IELTS Reading SUPER STRATEGY - with Alex

hello my name's Alex I'm one of the expert teachers here at e2 language and today we're talking about IELTS reading in this session I'm gonna give you a quick overview of IELTS reading general and academic I'm gonna share with you a reading strategy and it's a pretty radical but super effective one then we'll do some practice and today I'm going to show you the computer-delivered format for a reading text so let's start with an overview of IELTS reading what do you have to do in this part of the test if you're taking the general training test you have three sections now section one is called social survival there are a couple of short texts related to social situations part two is workplace survival and part three there's a longer reading and this could be anything a magazine article a journal article something of general interest and it's much longer than the texts you get in part one - there are 40 questions all up and you have one hour to do it now for academic you have three sections again but actually you have three long texts in this case and they're between 700 and 1,000 words each again there are 40 questions and you have an hour to do it let's have a quick look at the text we're going to use today it's here it's a little bit shorter than a real academic text or a real general part 3 text but similar in content and here are the questions that were going to deal with I'm gonna start by showing you the questions in the paper delivered format which might be more familiar to you and then I'm going to show you how they look on the computer delivered version of IELTS let's have a look at questions 1 to 7 on the left here I'll make them a little bit bigger the instructions are which section of the text contains the following information choose the correct letter A to E you may choose any letter more than once so in the paper to live a test you would be writing letters for instance might be paragraph a here this one might also come from paragraph a this may also be in paragraph a it says you may choose any letter more than once and that's what it means you might find this these bits of information in the same paragraph but you can't write next to question one a and B for instance so use any letter more than once but only one letter per answer and this question type is called match information on the computer it looks more like this so they've put the questions into a table still one to seven down here but actually it's a bit easier now you just need to tick the paragraph where you find that information so game number one might be from paragraph a number three might be from paragraph a and so on now let's look at questions eight to ten on the top right here the instructions say and look at the following statements and the list of people below match each statement with the correct person a B C or D so in this case for instance for question eight you'll need to say did a Harold Cohen say this did be in Goodfellow say it or C or D this is called match features type of question and by the way if you want extra practice with any of these question types we have heaps of them on our platform just go to e to language comm and sign up for free on the computer this question looks like this it's also in a table like the match information so we've got question eight nine and ten for the moment don't about reading the questions we're going to do that later and then the people down the bottom a b c d and again rather than write the less up you just need to t so if number eight refers to Harold Cohen you'll just click this box here if it was Ian Goodfellow you click B and so on and the last set of questions are down here complete the notes below choose no more than two words from the passage for each answer this is a sentence completion task and it looks basically the same whether you're doing it on computer or on paper IELTS reading super strategy for the moment I want you to forget everything you've ever learned about IELTS reading and strategies we're not going to skim and we're not going to scan this strategy is probably quite different to something you've tried before but I think you'll find it really effective for these types of questions we looked at this type of question before which is information match and when you see this question type you should think about this strategy that I'm going to teach you today and the reason is because if you skim and scan for this type of question you're probably not going to find the answer and you're going to waste a lot of time for instance if we look at question 1 here a contrast between different types of computer generated art so the question is asking me which paragraph talks about this contrast between different types of computer generated art but I'm not looking for the word contrast or between or different and in fact the whole article is about computer generated art so that's not a useful scanning word either so without really understanding what you're reading it's gonna be very difficult to find this answer so rather than go from the question to the text we're going to start with the text and go to the question I'm going to show you what I mean and help you with the first few paragraphs let's do paragraph a together so I've got the text on the left just paragraph a questions 1 to 7 on the right and then we're going to look at question 8 to 10 and 11 to 12 afterwards but for the moment our full attention is on paragraph a I'm going to read it fairly slowly trying to understand if you're doing the paper-based test at this point I would be underlining maybe scribbling notes in the margin if you're taking the test on the computer I would use the highlight function to highlight important parts let's read with AI becoming incorporated into more aspects of everyday living from writing to driving it's only natural that artists would start to expect with artificial intelligence indeed British auction house Christie's just sold its first piece of AI art a blurred face titled portrait of Edmund Bellamy for four hundred and thirty two thousand five hundred dollars the event led many to question whether the final products can truly be considered a piece of ass if artificial intelligence is used to create the images and if so given that the creative process still requires the input of an artist at what point do they relinquish credit to the machine so once we've read the paragraph you need to resist the temptation to go back and start reading it again or to jump around different parts of it we're going to go straight to the questions and try to answer them without rereading paragraph a so here are our information match questions remember that the instruction is which section of the text contains the following information so we're basically asking ourselves for each question was this in paragraph a did I read this let's do it together number one a contrast between different types of computer-generated art so I did see something about art of course and I saw something about AI but a contrast between different types No the paragraph didn't mention that I should mention at this point the paragraph a and B are going to take a bit longer than the other paragraphs because we haven't read the questions yet we haven't got an idea of what the texts about but investing a little bit of extra time here is going to pay off later when you get to paragraph D and E you've almost memorized the questions and you're going to really speed up let's keep going number two a reference to an unintended outcome I don't think we read anything about unintended outcomes examples of factors that create impressive art factors that create impressive art no now before the way a particular artwork was created well I know that the poor it was made with AI but not much detail other than that so probably not this five examples of AI in other areas of daily life right at the beginning of paragraph a it said AI was becoming incorporated into more aspects of daily living of everyday living from writing to driving so yes so yes we did see examples of AI in other areas of daily life so we'll give a tick here so once you've found one piece of information that doesn't mean you should stop reading this is not match headings this is much information so remember there may be two or three answers from this paragraph so let's keep reading number six the reaction of some to the sale of an artwork over here it says the event led many led many people to question whether the final product can truly be considered a piece of art so that is the reaction of some people it led people to question something so we can also give this a tick in column a this information was in paragraph a and the final one a definition of algorithmic art well we haven't seen anything about algorithmic art yet so it's definitely not in paragraph a so from those seven questions we found two answers and we don't stop there we also want to have a look at the other question types and see if we can answer some of those questions before we leave paragraph a so here's the next set of questions questions eight to ten the instructions are look at the following statements in the list of people below match each statement with the correct person a B C or D so I'm focusing here on these four names Harold Ian Pierre and Daniel did we see any of these names in paragraph a no we did it so we don't need to even read questions eight nine or ten at this point the final set of questions are sentence completion and these questions always come in order so I'm just going to read the first question and see if I can answer it if I can't then there's no point reading the second one question 11 in a generative adversarial Network one algorithm has to create images and the other has to them okay so we haven't read anything about a generative adversarial Network yet so I can't answer question 11 I'm going to ignore question 12 as well so that is the end of paragraph a and hopefully if we've read carefully we don't need to come back to it at all instead we move on to paragraph B and go through the same process all over again remember that I said paragraph a and B tend to take a little bit longer than the other paragraph so let's do B together and then I'll give you a chance to practice on your own here's paragraph B let's read it over the last 50 years several artists have written computer programs to generate art also known as algorithmic art it requires the artist to write detailed code with an actual visual outcome in mind one of the earliest practitioners of this form is Harold Cohen who wrote the program Aaron to produce drawings that followed a set of rules Cohen had created so straightaway I've seen the word algorithmic and I've seen the name Harold Cohen so I know that I've got some work to do so let's start with the match information questions and again we're gonna go from top to bottom not jumping around not skimming and scanning number one did we read this in paragraph B a contrast between different types of computer-generated art did it give us a contrast no it didn't a reference to an unintended outcome something a person didn't expect to happen no examples of factors that create impressive art have we got examples of factors there No number four the way a particular artwork was created an important thing here is a particular artwork so we know how Harold Cohen produced his drawings but one particular artwork no the paragraph didn't tell us about that five and six we've already answered but if you're not confident then you should check them again here and number seven a definition of algorithmic art up here at the start it says artists have written computer programs to generate art also known as algorithmic art so algorithmic art is computer programs that generate art that's the definition in the part before it in the sentence so yes this paragraph did contain a definition we give column B a tick on to the next set of questions now and we saw this named Harold Cohen one of the earliest practitioners is Harold Cohen who wrote the program to produce drawings following a set of rules he created so let's go through 8 9 and 10 and see does this reflect Harold Cohen or not so number eight did Harold Cohen develop algorithms used to make most of the recent AI art did he develop algorithms used to make most of the recent art it doesn't say that right number nine did he research the minds reaction to art no number ten did he develop a computer program to create art according to his vision back to the paragraph it said it requires the artist to write code with an actual visual outcome in mind one of the earliest practitioners of this form is Harold Cohen so that's a pretty good representation of ten he developed a computer program to create art according to his vision so let's give that a tick ten a Harold Cohen for questions 11 and 12 just check again have we read about a generative adversarial Network not yet so we can ignore eleven twelve again so we've done paragraph a and paragraph B I want you to have a go now at paragraph C D and E here's paragraph C now because this is a new strategy I don't want to worry about timing so just pause the recording whenever you need to read or to answer the questions here's the paragraph pause and read it and here are questions one to seven again pause the video and try to answer as many questions as you can let's check this together now number one a contrast between different types of computer-generated art this part of paragraph C contains this contrast particularly the second sentence artists create algorithms not to follow a set of rules that's one type of computer-generated art but to learn a specific aesthetic by analyzing thousands of images that's the other type of computer-generated art so we put a tick in column C column C contains this information question to a reference to an unintended outcome and three factors that create impressive art were not included in paragraph C but there was more information about how these artists use technology to produce the portrait of Edmund Bellamy one particular artwork so that was questions for question 4 was in paragraph C now here are questions 8 to 12 pause the recording and see how many you can answer let's check first thing you probably noticed was the name Pierre for trail but when you read eight and nine and this can happen in a question like this there may be a name that doesn't fit any of the statements and in fact in this case there are three statements and four names so you could be certain that one of them will not fit for question is 11 to 12 we haven't reached this section yet so we can't answer we're up to paragraphs D and E these are the final two paragraphs so I'm going to put them on the screen pause the video and take as long as you need to answer all the questions remember to follow the strategy by reading the paragraph first and the questions second pause the video now and here are the rest of the questions pause the video now you let's go through the questions together and by the way if you want to do this in the paper delivered format just jump over onto our blog where you can download it so hopefully you notice that for questions 1 to 7 none of the information came from paragraph D but question 2 a reference to an unintended outcome was mentioned at the start of paragraph ease so we put a tick in the e : and number 3 examples of factors that create impressive art also came from paragraph e for question 8 the person who developed algorithms used to make most of the recent AI art this was Ian good fellow so we took column B for Ian number 9 the person who researched the minds reaction to art was down in paragraph E and that was Daniel Berlin so we tick column D for Daniel and finally we reached questions 11 and 12 question 11 came from paragraph D the final sentence says one generates random images the other has been taught to via the input how to judge these images and deem which best align with the input so question 11 in a generative adversarial Network which we finally were introduced to in paragraph D one algorithm has to create images and the other has to judge them for question 12 this came from paragraph E the question is an algorithm trained on portraits could create a set of and in the text a generative adversarial Network being said portraits could end up producing a series of deformed faces and that is our answer could create a set of deformed faces so how did you go did you get them all correct and did you find that strategy useful let me know in the comment section below let's recap it's important to look at the type of questions first this type of strategy works best when you're dealing with much information like we did today or match headings before you start reading make sure you decide on your strategy and stick to it if you're reading paragraph by paragraph as we did today aim to read the text once and the questions many times some people feel that this type of strategy may be a little slow but it's actually very efficient but the trick is to read the paragraphs once if you read them again and again and again and read the questions again and again and again yes you're not going to have enough time so part of the preparation for IELTS is to read efficiently if you want to boost your topic vocabulary on today's theme which was art jump on our blog follow the link below and download our IELTS topic toolkit we've got 20 years for words with definitions and examples speaking questions essay topics all about art plus a sample essay and extra resources to help you get across this common theme don't forget to subscribe like comment and share this video with your friends so that's it have a go at this strategy on your own and if you want to study with someone come and join us at a to language calm you

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Length: 22min 16sec (1336 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 02 2020