My sister is a curious girl,īut she is very kind. Myīrothers are very smart and work hard in school. My father teaches English, and my mother is a nurse at a big hospital. I have two brothers and one sister, and I am the youngest. My Mom alwaysīrings me sweets and candy when they come. I share the house with three other students. My favouriteĬourses are Geometry, French, and History. Please write and tell me about you and your life.
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On the weekends, I go to the movie theater I am good at math, I also like history and geography but I have my lunch at the school cafeteria and I usually leave aroundģ:30 in the afternoon. I go to the 4th grade in Saint Michael Elementary To survive in these frosty, remote waters they have a layer of blubber almost half a metre thick.Hi, my name is Rebecca and I am your new pen pal. In waters further north live bowhead whales. Which marine animals need a thick layer of fat to survive in cold waters?Īs questions follow the order of the text, we can assume that answer should be somewhere in the third paragraph. You can see how a new term from the text is used for question: it's very common for short-answer questions in IELTS Reading. The found word ( blubber) is a valid and correct answer. We'll begin with blubber, the fat rich tissue belonging to marine mammals. Okay, we scan the second passage for the answer. How is called tissue of marine mammals that is rich with fat?Īfter we've read the text, we can see that fatty tissue of marine mammals was mentioned somewhere in the second passage. Thus, we can deduce that correct answer is blue whale. ✓ it's clearly stated in the text that blue whale has the most fat This question is quite simple as the answer lies in the first sentence of the text:Īs the largest animal in the world, the blue whale also has the most fat.Īfter we've found the potential answer (blue whale), it's time to check for its validity: In his studies, Dr Craig George found blubber mass ranged from 43% to 50% of the body mass of yearling whales.Īnswer the questions with NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS: To survive in these frosty, remote waters they have a layer of blubber almost half a metre thick. We’ll begin with blubber, the fat rich tissue belonging to marine mammals that has myriad benefits for streamlining, buoyancy, defence, insulation and energy storage. With the whales weighing in at up to 180 tonnes, that’s easily a record-breaking amount of fat for one animal.īut if we look at things proportionally, you might be surprised by some of the world’s full-fat species. In a 1968 study involving 49 different species of mammal from across the US and Brazil, researchers deduced that the blue whale had the highest percentage of body fat – more than 35%.
Read attentively the paragraph you’ve found, searching for the answer.Read the question and find the paragraph, which is likely to contain the answer.To understand the theory better, see an example below. Note that if you are asked to complete sentence with no more than two words, you can write one or two words, a three-word answer will be automatically wrong. But they keep the initial meaning and contain some key words, so you could find the answers in the text. Questions or statements are not simply copied from the text. Questions follow the order of the text.You should complete statements or answer questions with words taken from the text.Useful information about short-answer questions on IELTS Reading: A lot of IELTS test-takers get caught by the word limit: even if answer is logically correct, but number of words exceeds the limit, it achieves 0 points.
When tackling short-answer questions, you have to pay attention to the word limit. Write your answers in boxes 5–10 on your answer sheet.ĥ. Write NO MORE THAN TWO WORDS from the passage for each answer.
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