Reading practice for IELTS & TOEFL

Texts and tests

Twenty culturally relevant reading practice texts, with IELTS-style reading tests and language development pages. 

Author: Andrew Rossiter.  Published: 2025

 ISBN-13:  9798346950165 paperback

Publication date: 6th January 2025. 

    There's more to preparing for a language proficiency test than just learning the language, particularly for students who will later be using the language for study or for professional reasons.

    With its twenty culturally-relevant reading texts, "Reading practice for IELTS & TOEFL" is more than just a collection of language texts and tests; it is a book designed to let learners prepare for their language certification, while at the same time discovering some of the background culture that underlies life and mentalities in the Anglosphere, most particularly in the UK.

    This book is for teaching and learning, as much as for testing. Each of the twenty units consists of a culturally relevant text accompanied by IELTS-style reading test questions, as well as a useful glossary, plus a language awareness page relating to one or more language points illustrated in the text.
    While the test papers are based on the format used for IELTS, the general reading skills which they test need to be acquired by students preparing for any proficiency level English reading test, including TOEFL and many other tests around the world.

Each unit thus serves four complementary purposes:

• To broaden students' familiarity with the cultural background to Britain and other English speaking countries.
• To present a range of useful English vocabulary in context.
• To revise and in cases explain useful points of grammar.
• To familiarise students with the nature of the IELTS reading test and other English proficiency tests.

Two thirds of the texts look at life and issues in the United Kingdom, the others cover topics relating to the USA or life in general.

Units include texts on...  Lords aren't what they used to be  –  How United is the Kingdom?  –  Agatha Christie  –   Manchester United  –  The Queen who defined a century  –  The Golden Age of the Cowboy  –  Building houses, building bridges  and fourteen more...



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