IELTS Reading: Saving bugs to find new drugs 🐞💊

06/29/20 • 30 min

IELTS with Fiona: a comprehensive guide to IELTS

A long and difficult but FASCINATING text with SO MUCH useful vocabulary which I list at the end.

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It's a KEY TOPIC (see similar texts on my website - https://ieltsetc.com/2019/01/ielts-reading-doctoring-sales/ and https://ieltsetc.com/2018/10/ielts-gt-reading-snake-oil/) and I also talk about how parts of the text help us with Writing.

A long and difficult but FASCINATING text with SO MUCH useful vocabulary which I list at the end.

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IELTS Reading: An unusual Academic Passage 1 - The concept of intelligence.

This passage has an academic, theoretical structure rather than a factual, chronological one.

Watch the video on YouTube to see how it looks:

https://youtu.be/7JHQdVkENMU

This video will show you how to use the structure to get answers even when the content doesn't make much sense!

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IELTS Listening - Cities built by the sea 🌊🏙️

This is a Section 3 (dialogue between 2 students) with lots of vocab related to the environment: - urban planning - coastal cities - pollutants are discharged into rivers - to protect against flooding - global warming - sea levels are rising - they need to consider the whole ecosystem - environmentalists https://ieltsetc.com/2019/09/ielts-listening-how-to-recognise-signals-and-signposts/