IELTS by Gurpreet Singh

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🚨 IELTS Reading Tip Alert 🚨 Don't lose marks for not following instructions! 📝 Make sure you read the task instructions carefully and stick to the word limit for each answer. 💡 Maximize your score by paying attention to the details. 🌟

𝐒𝐞𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐬
✪ If we must celebrate a day for women, let us celebrate freedom from stereotypes, from expectations, from idolization, from sacrifice.
✪ Stop congratulating women for being the secret behind a successful man. Start saluting them for being successful.
✪ Stop saying the mother is sacred for all the sacrifices she makes. Try to reduce those sacrifices!
✪ Stop telling women they are beautiful. Try telling them it's not important to be beautiful!
✪ Stop praising her roles as mother, wife, daughter, sister. Celebrate her as an individual, a person, independent of relationships.
✪ Stop justifying her necessity to multi task. Give her a chance not to!
✪ Stop these constructs which are aimed at making her strive for an impossible balance. Let her be inadequate. And happy!
✪ Stop making her look at herself through a conveniently male viewpoint. Let her be imperfect, whimsical, irresponsible, boorish, lazy, fierce, opinionated, loud, flabby, ungroomed, adventurous, unpredictable, unprepared, impractical.
Happy Women's Day!

𝐃𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐞: 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐲𝐦𝐬 𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐎𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬!
Contronyms are words that have two opposite meanings depending on the context. In other words, these are words that can be used to express two completely opposite ideas.
Examples:
✪ "𝐋𝐞𝐟𝐭" can mean both "remaining" and "departed".
✔ Remaining: There are only a few pieces of cake left.
✔ Departed: He left the party early.
✪ "𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧" can mean both "to show" and "to hide".
✔ To show: The theater will screen the new movie next week.
✔ To hide: The bushes will screen the house from view.
✪ "𝐎𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤" can mean both "to miss something" and "to observe something from above".
✔ To miss something: I'm sorry, I overlooked that detail in my report.
✔ To observe something from above: The balcony overlooks the ocean, providing a stunning view.
✪ "𝐂𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦" can mean both "a usual practice" and "a specially-made item".
✔ A usual practice: In some cultures, it is the custom to remove your shoes before entering a house.
✔ A specially-made item: The company specializes in custom-made suits tailored to fit each individual customer.

Attended a very informative and engaging Workshop on "Blended Approach to IELTS Preparation" organized by Cambridge University Press India Pvt. Ltd. in Chandigarh led by Master Trainer Ms. Ruchi Tomar. Her unique and gamified approach was a cherry on the cake.
Here are the key takeaways from the workshop:
✅Engaging with the best master trainers
✅Brainstorming on designing new blended prep courses
✅How to build a blended approach to IELTS Teaching
✅Identifying test-takers' progression and adapting
✅Discovering various Diagnostic and Readiness test options
✅Gaining new skill-specific pedagogical insights and perspectives on IELTS Teaching
✅Familiarization with the new print and digital Cambridge resources

When it comes to the IELTS Reading Test, not much emphasis is given to the art of Speed Reading and that's probably one of the reasons why many test-takers struggle to finish the test in time.
Also, sometimes we, as IELTS Trainers, spend too much time telling students about the techniques of Skimming and Scanning and not enough showing them how to put them into practice.
Chunking, Making Inferences and Working with Context Clues are equally essential and universal skills forming an integral part of any Reading test.
TIP 1: ELIMINATE REGRESSION WHILE READING