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		<title>IELTS reading &#8211; how to use key words</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 08:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do IELTS candidates make mistakes in the reading paper? Time and the difficulty of the texts are two reasons. Another reason is that they do not read in the right way and they focus on key words only. Key words can help but only if used correctly. Used incorrectly, they can in fact cause [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IELTS reading &#8211; scanning skills 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:26:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IELTS Reading &#8211; 10 top tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 06:04:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many academic IELTS candidates reading is the hardest paper and the one which requires most training. Here I suggest some different ways to make that training as efficient as possible. These pieces of advice are fairly general and are designed to help you think about the best way to train yourself in IELTS reading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IELTS reading practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a brilliant reading resource for IELTS candidates. It is far more than a reading practice test rather it is a complete tutorial on the reading paper. It explains how to approach the reading paper and the different types of question you can expect to find there. It shows examples of  9 different types [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A little but often &#8211; RSS feeds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is in effect a repost from my previous site. I do think, however, it is worth looking at. What I have done here is to organise some RSS feeds from news organisations into the main IELTS categories. These feeds are, if you like, the news as it happens. The basic idea is this. Reading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IELTS Reading Resource &#8211; ESL Bits</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just come across a great reading resource for IELTS candidates &#8211; especially if you are a General Training candidate or are an Academic IELTS candidate at level 4-5. The site is
ESL Bits
Do not be put off by the fact that the readings are not as per the IELTS exam. If you work through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Newspapers for IELTS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newspapers are an excellent free online resource for IELTS students both for reading practice and vocabulary and you will find below a list of links to some newspaper sites. To get the most out of these so that your language actually improve, here are some tips on how to use them.
1. Read regularly
For me, this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IELTS reading &#8211; time management</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 10:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A short time ago I posted a quiz on the format of the IELTS exam. One question which caused a lot of problems was to do with the format of the reading exam. Many people apparently believed that you were given extra time to fill in the answer sheet at the end of the exam. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exam tips for IELTS &#8211; reading the question</title>
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		<comments>http://www.dcielts.com/blog/reading-blog/exam-tips-for-ielts-reading-the-question/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 19:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most important advice you will ever get
This post is about how to improve your IELTS score overnight.  What I say may seem obvious, but often the obvious is what matters. In a way, all other tips for IELTS exams are just explanations of this point. Please do read this post: take a look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IELTS reading &#8211; skimming skills</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dominic Cole</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One standard piece of advice on the reading paper is to read the questions before looking at the reading passage itself. The grounds for this are that few if any of the questions require an understanding of the passage as a whole and, since time is short, you want to concentrate on finding the details [...]]]></description>
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