This course
familiarize students with IELTS Academic
Reading test which tests their ability to understand and answer questions at a reasonably high level of difficulty.
Students will practice global reading skills( skills needed to comprehend the
main idea of a text) and micro-skills ( skills to locate and interpret detailed
information in a text) .Students are expected to understand opinion and
attitude and be able to distinguish these from fact. They will also be expected
to distinguish main idea from supporting ideas. The teacher should train them
to adapt their reading habits according to the text and task. Speed is required
to do all reading tasks.
Intended learning outcomes
By the end of
the course students are expected to answer successfully a variety of question
types, chosen from the following: