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3B About Yourself
Unit focus
IELTS Paper: Reading (General Training)
Skills focus: Reading for specific information/scanning
Exam focus: Reading Paper Section 1
Short-answer questions, matching
information tasks
SKILLS FOCUS
1 Read these profiles of some students of English, written by their teacher at a language school in New
Zealand. Write the letter of the correct profile to answer these questions:
1 Which students work in New Zealand? ..........
2 Who is going to take the IELTS exam? ..........
3 Who likes an outdoor activity? ..........
4 Who speaks Mandarin? ..........
5 Who doesn’t speak much in class? ..........
6 Who plays a musical instrument? ..........
7 Who doesn’t like learning grammar? ..........
Monze, Spanish, speaks
Catalan and Castilian.
Learning English to pass
the IELTS exam. Works in
a café; often comes to class
tired. Likes to learn grammar
and to speak with classmates,
needs to improve her writing skills and pronunciation.
A Ming, Chinese, speaks
Cantonese and Mandarin.
Needs to learn English for
his job in a pharmaceutical
lab in New Zealand. Hard-
working and keen student.
Loves reading. Needs to
expand his vocabulary.
B
Miki, Japanese, here on
holiday for two months;
loves mountain climbing.
Has excellent vocabulary;
very good at reading;
worries too much about
her grammar; rather shy
in class; doesn’t like speaking in front of the
class.
C Anis, Lebanese, studying
back home to be a doctor;
needs English for his future
work and his studies;
speaks Arabic and French.
Loves classical music and
playing the guitar. Quite
quiet in class but hard-working and likes to help his
classmates.
D
E
Qu. 1 – you read certain sentences carefully
Qu. 2 – you just looked for the word ‘IELTS’
Qu. 3 – you searched for a word about ‘outdoor
activities’
Qu. 4 – you just looked for the word ‘Mandarin’
Qu. 5 – you read certain sentences carefully
Qu. 6 – you just looked for a word connected with
‘playing a musical instrument’
Qu. 7 – you searched for the words ‘doesn’t like
grammar’
2 To find the answers to the questions in Ex. 1, did
you need to:
a read every word in every profile?
b just look for certain words?
c read certain sentences carefully?
3 You probably read for the answers as follows:
Scanning
Chin, Korean, speaks Korean and Mandarin; working and studying here; often
tired in class; doesn’t always do the homework because of work duties. Likes to
learn by listening and speaking; doesn’t like grammar. Very interested in politics
and wants to learn as much as possible about life in New Zealand.
Units thematically linked to the Speaking and Listening
units of Mission IELTS 1 Academic Student’s Book
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