hi there it's asiya you know that in ielts reading you need to read a lot
right? so if you take ielts academic you'll be expected to read three
passages like that in ielts general training the passages will
be shorter but you'll get five of them and obviously you don't have enough time
to read all that and answer 40 questions
do you actually need to read all this well the answer is yes and no let me
show you something here i've highlighted
all the lines that contain answers so that's what you really need to read
carefully to answer all the questions to this
passage correctly the rest is the background information
but of course you have to read through all the text to find the key
moments that matter so i'm gonna show you some techniques that
will help you to read faster and answer questions in
less time ready let's get started
are you familiar with the concept of intensive and extensive
reading when you learn english at school typically you're taught to read
intensively it means you read slowly and carefully
trying to understand everything if you don't know a word you
stop and you look up the word in the
dictionary and that is very slow but
for most people it becomes a habit and you always
read like that in english but there is another type of reading
extensive reading that's how you read newspapers in your own language you read
very quickly not paying too much attention to any particular word
if you don't understand something you don't stop
you just keep on reading and by the end of the article
you still get the general meaning even if you couldn't understand
some of the words or some of the information
and that's how you should read for about 70 percent of the time in ielts reading
because most of the information there is just the background information
and you can skim over in order to find the lines
that contain answers and then you slow down
and you read intensively thoughtfully to understand and find your answer
so let me show you how you can start reading extensively in english
and some exercises that will help you read phrases not words
do you read each word one by one carefully following them or maybe even
following them with a pencil then you pay as much attention to an
article as you do to a keyword and that wastes your time train your
eyes to read in chunks in word groups because you can see
several words at the same time for example this question move your eyes
just three times do you read
each word and why by one once you get used to it
it will be much quicker next stop hearing words in your head when we
hear words we are reading in our minds it
slows us down because we can't move on to the next
word until we finished hearing the previous
one and there is a fun way to get rid of
this habit just say and start reading and then
you won't hear words anymore don't take me
wrong hearing words is handy for intensive reading
sometimes i will move my lips to really get to the meaning of a certain phrase
but when you want to read fast you should be able to switch off this habit
don't reread yes when you are reading you should always
be looking for a certain answer and if you don't understand something
but you still don't think that that is the answer don't stop to reread
keep on moving it doesn't matter if you don't understand
everything and most likely you won't accelerate first then slow down
this is a good exercise to learn how to read fast
do you drive imagine if you're driving on a highway
at 120 kilometers per hour and then you slow down to 16.
it will feel so slow but if you are driving at 30 and then you
accelerate to 60 it will feel fast even though the speed
is the same so what i want you to do is i want you to take a book in english
or an article and start reading fast too fast
and then after a couple of paragraphs slow down
and your new speed will be faster than your regular reading speed
now i want to share with you the technique i use to improve my reading
speed after i graduated from the uk university
i was looking for a job in london and many uk corporations make you take
verbal reasoning tests because it's such an easy way to assess you
so i was competing against native speakers and i
felt that i was at a disadvantage because i just couldn't
read as fast so that's what i did i'm going to tell you the adapted to
ielts version first of all you need to read
texts which are similar to what you're going to
have during your exam you can find them on the guardian
science section read at least one article a day
so first i want you to read the whole article extensively read it quickly
don't stop don't translate words don't pronounce
words in your head say um if you need don't reread anything and probably
you won't be able to understand everything and i want you to get used to
this feeling too that you should be able to retrieve the
information you can get without getting too confused
about some bits you can't understand once you
finish reading read the same article again
this time intensively slowly carefully translating words thinking
about difficult sentences and difficult phrases and really trying to understand
everything next day take the next article and repeat and i promise you if
you be doing it regularly you will see results
apart from reading articles similar to ielts reading
i just want you to read as much in english
as possible if you're thinking about reading a book
buy it in english if you're searching for instructions how to do something
search in english the more information you consume in english
the faster your brain will be able to process it
okay let's go back to ielts reading you should always read to find the
answer i mean you shouldn't just read the whole
passage and then start reading questions hoping
to answer them that will be a huge time waster
you should always know what you're looking for many questions
come in order it means you can read the first question
find your answer read the next question continue reading the text until you
find the answer and so on some questions don't come on order for example matching
headings in this case you should read the first
paragraph find the answer read the second
paragraph find the answer and so on so you always know what you're
looking for and some tips help you concentrate
you should highlight keywords in questions
to know what you're looking for you should
highlight keywords in the passage such as names dates
names of places names of theories there are often questions about them
and it's just great if you can go back to the correct
place straight away without searching for it again
one more thing when you're looking for your answers you should look for
synonyms you should look for paraphrasing because
you will never find the same words in your question
and in the correct answer those will always be
paraphrased okay and you should practice using their facial ielts
reading tests because they are exactly like the real thing
and several of them are available for free you can find them
in my ielts study plan and you should also know which questions common order
and which don't which question types because it's
a huge time saver and i've done my
research you can see it in this video thank you
for watching me today good luck with your preparation
and your exam bye