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Students, today we are looking at an IELTS reading section, and

the topic will be tigers, or better put, varieties of tigers.

First step in reading everybody is to visualize, which means to see the information as you read it.

Again, it's animals of different stripes, and we have this beautiful tiger here.

To make it interesting, engage the material and get your brain really focused on it.

If you see a picture like this on the IELTS exam, you might want to think, hey, maybe I'm doing a show in a circus or something, and

I'm going to my head into the lion's mouth here, grab his little chin there.

But hey, the brain's turned on and it's thinking about tigers.

And once you visualize and you're looking at this and you're thinking about, you know, like, what could this be about?

They live in mostly various parts of Asia, in some parts of northern Russia, Siberia.

So we're thinking about their habitats, their habits.

Well, because they are, first of all, beautiful animals.

Secondly, they've been hunted a lot, so there's not a lot of them.

There's maybe a few thousand left for most tiger species.

And you should be thinking about all this information before you begin reading.

The more information that you can kind of think about in your head before you read, the easier it will be to read the passage and to answer the questions.

Once you've thought about tigers and what they are and why we're interested in them and how we would write about them, then you can look at the questions just to see what kind of information is in this passage.

So when you look at the questions, make sure to read them.

So questions 14 to 18 classify the following facts as applying to A Bengal tigers, B. Siberian tigers.

So right away I know that here there are going to be two types of tigers, Bengal and Siberian, and

So immediately I visualize these two types and read the questions.

Lives further from the equator, so a greater distance from the line that separates the world or cuts it in half.

So when we have the world here, that line that goes through the middle, that's called the equator, has a significantly higher population, So a lot more numbers of either the Bengal or the Siberian.

One of them exhibits large size fluctuations depending on geography.

So it might be fat or skinny, depending, depending on where it lives.

Grows no additional fur during different seasons, so it doesn't grow long body hair in summer, winter times.

Now, what I'm doing here, students, is I'm paraphrasing.

So as I'm looking at all of these questions and in the real ielts, you need to do this in your head at home.

A paraphrase means write down the same idea using different words.

The reason why is in the reading, you're always going to see it differently.

So what you see in the questions is not what you see in the reading passage.

You want to think about different ways Right.

This is one that's usually challenging for a lot of students.

This type of question in the real exam, it's not good to read it before you're reading.

You just don't know what's true, what's not true, what's not given.

A number 14 lives further from the equator.

Remember I said a greater distance from the center meridian of the Earth, the equator.

Is this the Bengal or the Siberian tiger?

Now, if you visualized it, you should have created a chart in your head.

So Tsegeretta says Bengal lives in India.

So here we know that the Bengal is closer to the center meridian and the Siberian is further away.

Okay, next one has a significantly higher population.

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