Fifty years ago, half of all UK deaths were due to cardiovascular disease. Thanks to medical advances and greater understanding of the heart, the prognosis for today's heart disease patients is considerably brighter.
The Beckhams are about to welcome their fourth child into the world, rumoured to be a girl, after three sons. So what it's like to swap muddy football socks and dinosaurs for all things pink?
A detailed look at Rupert Murdoch's global media conglomerate, News Corporation, and its UK newspaper arm, News International, which has been hit by further phone-hacking allegations.
Reading is the most challenging paper for many IELTS candidates and indeed it can be difficult. Some of the texts are really tough and the questions can be tricky, but time is the real problem. How can you read and process 3 texts of 800-900 words in 60 minutes? One answer is skimming, another is scanning and it is this that I am going to look at in this article. Done well it can save you vital time, done badly it may be a waste of time. It is a skill that does need a little learning.
As a recent report made to the UN states that internet access is part of our human right to expression, will this cause governments to re-think their laws on internet access?
Not only is oldstream UK media tearing itself apart right now, previously picked on figures are getting their own back too. For the benefit of non-UK readers, “mincemeat” is also known as “ground beef”, and that is exactly what comic Steve Coogan makes of former deputy features editor for News Of The World, Paul McMullan, on last night’s BBC Newsnight program’s round table discussion concerning the phone-hacking scandal, the closure of NotW by Rupert Murdoch, and his still possible takeover of the BSkyB TV network.
As newspaper bosses decide to close the News of the World amid increasingly damaging allegations of phone hacking and corruption, the BBC takes a look at the key questions it poses.
The focus in this lesson is to give you some practice ideas for one specific reading skill: scanning. It follows my earlier lesson on how to scan more effectively. The focus this time is on how to use scanning as a skill in IELTS and to avoid some common mistakes from scanning ineffectively. The central message is that you need to learn how to combine 3 different reading skills:
the ability to skim a text quickly – to see how it is organised the ability to scan for information – to see where the answer comes the ability to read closely for meaning – to get the right answer
I'm recommending you follow this story because the texts in the IELTS Reading test are often on topics related to the natural world, travel and transport (although they won't refer to current events like the Volcanic ...
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