few really effective tips for how to

prepare for the IELTS reading test. And

my first tip is to read something

everyday in English even if it's

only for 20 minutes a day. Try and to read

something at least. It will get your

brain thinking in English as it reads in

English. You can read articles from

magazines or from news websites on topics

that interest you

and it's also a good idea to read about

topics that come up regularly in the

IELTS test, such as health, education and

the environment, and this will help you

build your confidence when reading and

it will also help you grow your

vocabulary. What I'm going to do now is

show you some websites, quite a few

websites which are very good sources of

reading material, and links to all these

websites are in the links...the

external links below the video.

Here's one very useful website: the BBC

News Magazine. It features lots of topical

issues, round-ups of UK news and letters,

sometimes it has a quiz as well. And the

Economist. This covers international news and

politics, business, finance, science

as well, technology, so there's loads of

good articles in here. And The Economist

Technology Quarterly is also very good.

They've got lots of technology news,

technology articles too. And The Economist

Magazine, called 1843 (which is the year

that The Economist started) and it's got

lots of lifestyle, culture articles in

here.

Popular Science is a monthly online

magazine about current scientific issues

and technology, and the New Scientist:

again another science website, also has

lots of the latest news and articles

about scientific research. National

Geographic, you may have heard of. This is

a website of course about geography

exploration, the environment.

Science Focus is a web site run by the BBC,

so it's the BBC'S science website and it's

got lots of technology news in here as

well.

Science Daily has lots of the latest

science news and articles, things like

global warming, planets, the natural world

also diseases come up here as well and

cures. And the American Scientist. This

is to do with scientific research, so it

covers some of the latest research in

America. And Australian Geographic covers

things to do, connected with wildlife and

the environment and again science and

adventure. So it's really important to

try and read as much as you can, but it's

also important to try and practice the

IELTS reading test as well at home

because it will give you a better

understanding of what to do in the tests

and it will make you feel a lot more

confident as well and it will help you

time your tests as well. Now there

are a lot of practice materials online

which you can buy and lots of websites

where you can download practice

materials as well so I strongly

recommend you try to find some good

reading practice materials on the

Internet or to buy books like these that

you can get.

Now when you begin to practice tests for

the reading test, make sure that you do

it in a slow way

first of all. Now what I mean by 'slow

practice' is basically you have the

answers near you so that you can check

your answers after you've done each

question. And it will help you understand

how the reading test works. So for

example, here is a part of the general

training IELTS reading test with the

question at the top and the text on the

left.

So what you should try and do is look at

the questions, look at the text. Decide

what you think the answer is and you can

check the answers in the back of the

book. And if you get the answer wrong, what

you need to do is just work out why

you've got it wrong: why is it not A? Why

is the answer D? So think about why the

answer is D. So don't get upset or sad

just try to learn from your mistakes

instead and once you're more confident

with answering the IELTS reading test

questions then you can do some timed

practice and try and complete the test

within the 60-minute time limit.

So those are a my main tips for how to

prepare for the IELTS reading test.