쉐도잉 연습: Get Better at IELTS Reading in 13 Minutes - 영상으로 영어 말하기 배우기

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There is a way to get better at IELTS reading almost instantly.
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It's not a hack, it really works.
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Building your vocabulary and reading speed will give you the biggest improvements, but those take months.
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What I want to show you today are five things about the test itself that you can understand right now.
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And once you do, you'll manage your time better, feel less overwhelmed and start answering more questions with the English you already have.
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Let's start with the official instructions and one thing written there which you should ignore.
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Let's open an official Cambridge practice test.
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The very first line reads, you should spend about 20 minutes on questions 1 to 13.
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Basically 20 minutes on the first section, 20 on the second and 20 on the third.
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Sounds fair, right?
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Three sections one hour divided equally.
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But here's the thing, it doesn't work.
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One of my students, Maria, followed this advice to the letter.
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She breathed through section 1, felt super confident, still had time left over to double check her answers,
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Section 2 was fine and then she hit section 3,
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the hardest one, packed with tricky vocabulary where you really need to read the most to answer each question.
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And suddenly she was struggling.
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She left several questions blank just because time ran out, which meant she didn't return to a couple of questions she skipped in section 2.
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And all this resulted in a 6.5 from someone with great English skills.
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And that's the story I see again and again.
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The problem is, section 1 is always easier, section 3 is always harder.
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And if you treat them equally, you're actually setting yourself up to run out of time just when you need it most.
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So here is the smarter way to think about it.
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Spend about 15 minutes on section 1, 20 on section 2 and 25 on section 3.
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I call this the 15-20-25 rule.
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And if you're quite advanced and are aiming for band 8 or 9, try this version.
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12 minutes, 18, 23.
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And see if you can handle this pace without making extra mistakes.
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Because this change can potentially free up up to 7 minutes at the end of the test
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so you can go back and fix those I'll come back to this later questions.
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So the real win isn't just speed, it's control.
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And trust me, when the pressure kicks in, those last few minutes can make the difference to your score.
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So once you've sorted your timing with the 15-20-25 rule, there is another decision that can completely change your score.
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Do you actually read the passage first or skip straight to the questions?
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Many students and teachers think there is only one right way, but over the years I've seen top scorers use different strategies.
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Take one of my students, Ahmed.
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For months he was stuck at a band 6.
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And every practice test looked the same.
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He'd start by reading the entire passage carefully,
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word by word, because he was taught he needed to understand the ideas in the passage before touching the questions.
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And by the time he got halfway through he was stressed,
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clock was ticking down, he'd start panicking and one day I told him forget the passage, start with the questions.
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And at first he didn't believe me.
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But after a few practice runs something started happening.
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He started locating answers directly, saving 4 or 5 minutes in every section.
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And within weeks his score jumped from a band 6 to a band 8 in practice tests
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and a 7.5 in his real exam.
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So here's the lesson.
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If you can skim a passage comfortably in 3-4 minutes, reading first can give you useful context.
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If that slows you down or feels overwhelming, skip it, go straight to the questions.
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Plenty of band 8 or even 9 students do.
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And starting with the questions when you know what you're looking for can save you a lot of time for another reason.
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Let me show you something.
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Here is a full passage and my question is
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how much of each IELTS reading passage do you actually need to answer the questions?
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Do you need every sentence?
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Half of them?
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Well, let me show you.
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I've highlighted all the sentences we really need to answer the questions and the rest is just context.
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Sometimes a whole paragraph is context.
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This is part two, in part three there will be more highlighted parts, but the point still stands.
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Not every sentence answers a question.
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And of course you don't know which sentences you need and which you don't unless you know which question you're answering.
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So the next skill I'm gonna teach you is really powerful
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because it helps you spot exactly where the answers are hiding without wasting your time on the sentences
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that don't matter and without jumping from one paragraph to another and back looking for those answers.
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You'll be able to find your answers one after another calmly and in an orderly manner.
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Believe it or not, IELTS test writers aren't trying to trick you.
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In fact, they actually make the answers appear in the most logical order possible.
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And once you understand the logic, the test feels a lot less overwhelming.
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So here is how it works.
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Many question types follow the order of the passage.
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This means you read question one, skim until you hit the answer, lock it in, then you move to question two,
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which will be further down in the text.
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And the simple rhythm, question, skim, answer, repeat, can save you huge amounts of time.
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Now I'm going to show you which questions are going to appear in order briefly
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and if you want to learn more in depth there is a separate video I'll link it below.
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So tasks that usually appear in order are true false not given,
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yes no not given, multiple choice with one or two answers,
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matching sentence endings, and most filling the gaps tasks like notes,
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tables, diagrams or summaries, although occasionally a few answers may be swapped around.
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So not everything is that neat.
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Some question types break this pattern and need a different approach.
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But even here the answers are not random.
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The tasks that are usually not in order are matching headings,
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matching information when you read which section contains,
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and matching features like match names, researchers or professions.
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For these the best strategy is to read the passage section by section
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and try matching each part as you go so instead of reading the first question
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you start with reading the first section you match it you read the next section you match it
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and so on and usually you finish the task
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and then you return to those parts you couldn't match the first time round
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and you go through the task again and finally by the second round you probably match everything.
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And one final catch.
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Near the very end of the reading test questions 38 to 40 can sometimes ignore the rules
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so be prepared that those last few may jump around.
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So the key idea is this.
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If you know which tasks are in order and which aren't you can stop wasting time flipping back and forth
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and start reading with purpose.
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And now, before we move to the last technique which every IELTS student should apply in their preparation,
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let me share with you three seemingly small habits that can really help you in your test.
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First, imagine you're almost done with the text and the question suddenly asks.
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According to Professor Smith, or in 1953, if you haven't marked anything,
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you're forced to scan the whole page from scratch under pressure with the clock ticking.
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But if you've been highlighting as you read, you've already left little signposts in the text and you can jump straight there,
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saving your precious minutes.
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That's why highlighting isn't optional it's one of the best time-saving habits you can build highlight names dates theories
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and places even
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if you take your test on computer you can use highlights
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select the word right click highlight i normally don't highlight much on computer
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because it's quite distracting and it's taking more effort than on paper
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but for these keywords i'd make an exception to illustrate the second habit, let me tell you a short story.
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I still remember it vividly from one of my own exams.
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It was paper-based and when the reading section finished the invigilator announced your time is up, put your pants down.
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But the girl next to me was frantically transferring her answers and the invigilator ran over shouting pants down,
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pants down and crossed out her probably five answers or so right on the spot.
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Can you imagine?
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To find the answers but not get the points.
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So never ever save transferring for the end.
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Do it neatly after each section so you don't lose marks you've already earned.
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And keep an eye on your time.
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On computer there is a time at the top, no problem and no need to transfer any answers anywhere but
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if you take your exam on paper write down
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when your section begins to remember
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when it ends invigilators will only tell you how much time is left two
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or three times throughout the test and in the test i took they only announced
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when we had 10 minutes left and five minutes but it may differ from center to center.
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And the third useful habit concerns your practice tests.
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It's tempting to grab any practice test you find online for free.
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Some even come with the official label.
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But here is the truth.
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The real IELTS exam papers are produced by Cambridge English.
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And that's what you get in Cambridge IELTS books.
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Even the other co-owners of IELTS like IDP or British Council don't write the actual exams, they just deliver them.
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So their practice tests online can be slightly different to the real tests.
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And those three random tests you see online are way off most often.
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Too easy, too hard or sometimes just plain wrong.
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And if you want your practice to pay off on exam day, use Cambridge tests.
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Now what's this last technique every student needs.
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You know, whenever I post a video where we work on a particular type of reading questions and practice together,
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I always get some comments saying this answer is wrong, it should be B.
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I love the energy but there is a missed opportunity here.
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First, you won't win an argument with Cambridge English.
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Second, you're not learning the lesson.
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What you should do after each practice test is go back and analyze your every mistake.
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Figure out why you chose the wrong answer.
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If you didn't know some words, translate them.
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If you didn't read carefully enough, do.
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But get to the point where you understand why a certain answer is correct with every question.
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The next time you won't make the same mistake.
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Oh yes, and learn more about the different types of tasks and how to approach them.
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Remember the questions in order and not in order?
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Here is a video that can help you master this technique and get clarity and confidence taking your reading test.
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Thank you so much for watching me today.
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Good luck with your preparation and your exam.
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Bye!

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  • "If you can skim a passage comfortably, reading first can give...": 조건문과 주절의 구조가 명확하며, "can"을 사용해 가능성을 표현합니다. 일상 대화나 시험에서 조언을 할 때 자연스럽게 사용할 수 있습니다.

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영상에서 주의해야 할 발음 부분이 몇 가지 있어요. "vocabulary"는 [vəˈkæbjələri]로 발음하되, 중간의 "b"가 약하게 들릴 수 있어요. "overwhelmed"는 [ˌoʊvərˈwelmd]로, "over"와 "whelmed"의 연결이 자연스러워야 합니다. 또한 "strategies"는 [ˈstrætədʒiz]로, 마지막 "ies"가 [iz]로 발음됩니다. 영어 발음 교정을 위해 이 단어들을 반복해서 연습하고, shadowspeak 기법을 사용해 화자의 발음을 정확히 모방해보세요.

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현재완료 have/has + 과거분사 — 과거의 일이 지금도 관련이 있을 때you've sorted · I've seen · I've highlighted

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