matching headings

Duration of IELTS Academic Reading exam?

• 40 mins

• 50 mins

• 60 mins

• 70 mins

Purpose of Matching-Heading task in IELTS Reading?

• Test your ability to recognize the paragraph's main idea and identify supporting ideas.

• Checking your understanding main points of text

• Test your ability to identify information assesses

• Test your ability to summarize the main ideas of a given text

Where is the main idea often located in a paragraph?

• First sentence

• Last sentence

• Random sentence in the paragraph

• Whole paragraph

What can be two available strategies to help you match headings more successfully?

• Read the text first

• Read the supporting ideas first

• Read the question first

• Predict the topic first

Marriage is a much-researched topic, and the way married couples communicate in particular has been the subject of many studies. These days, research into marriage often involves hours of recordings, followed by a thorough analysis of data with the help of modern software applications

• The science of marriage

• Technological advances

• The likelihood of marrying again

Tags

Family and relationships

In more recent, larger scale study, people were observed over a fifteen-year period. The researchers recorded the timings of marriages, divorces and remarriages and discovered patterns that helped them estimate how likely divorce was. If participants admitted the possibility of divorce to themselves during the first year of the study, the probability of it actually happening was ten times greater than for those couples who had not thought about it at all. Clearly, once the idea of divorce is in somebody's mind, they are more likely to act on it

• The power of thought

• The likelihood of marrying again

• The benefits of avoiding arguments

Tags

Family and relationships

What do you have to do in a "Matching Headings" exercise in IELTS Reading?

• Match statements (definitions, reasons, examples, etc.) to paragraphs in the reading text

• Match the heading in the question to the correct paragraph or reading section in the text

In Matching Headings, the number of paragraphs and the number of headings given are the same. True or False?

• True

• False

The main idea of a paragraph is always in the first sentence. True or False?

• True

• False

Where can you get the main idea of a paragraph?

• The first sentence

• The pictures

• The middle of the paragraph

• The last sentence of the paragraph