Choosing a Title in Ielts Reading

Choosing a Title in Ielts Reading

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• Task:
• Choosing the most appropriate title from a list
• Skills:
  • identifying aims of a passage
  • distinguishing between detail and main aims

Remember you need to think of the whole aim for the passage for this IELTS lesson. Useful for both GT and academic students – the level isn’t too hard.

Here are some tips to help you with how to choose the best title for the reading passage below.

Tips for Choosing a Title

• This question type is usually the last question of the passage.
• You should find the main aim of the passage.
• Analyse all the options for the title and look at the differences between the possible titles.
• Common trap – there will probably be information about all options in the passage – you need to find the main aim / message.
• Always look at the introduction sentence and concluding sentence to see if there is a similar message.

Choosing a Title in Ielts Reading

Sample:

Reading Passage:

Coffee is one of the most popular hot drinks in the world. Almost a third of the world’s population drinks coffee. People often meet at cafes or coffee shops for a coffee break during the middle of the morning or stop work in the afternoon to drink coffee.
About 7 million tons of coffee is produced every year. Brazil is, by far, the world’s largest coffee producer. About a third of the world’s production comes from this South American country. Other coffee producing countries include Vietnam, Indonesia and Colombia.
The United States is the biggest coffee consumer in the world. About 1.2 billion kilograms of coffee are consumed there every year. Drinking coffee is extremely popular in European countries, like Italy, France and Germany, as well as in Brazil.

Choosing a Title in Ielts Reading

Choose the correct letter A – C

Which is the best title for the passage below?

 A.  Coffee – a popular hot drink
 B.  Coffee – the main consumers
 C.  Coffee – the main producers

Answers

The correct answer is A

The opening paragraph and closing line both stress the same point which is about the popularity of coffee. While the first line alone or the last line alone might not themselves indicate aim, to have them both stressing the same point with so much detail in the first paragraph is something you can’t ignore.

There are no fixed rules about choosing a title. But you must remember that information for all options will be given in the passage. So, your aim is not to match information, but to decide what the whole aim of the passage is. You need to ask yourself – Why did this author write the passage? What was the aim of writing the passage? What was the key message that the author wanted to deliver?

So in this lesson, information about the producers and consumers was just extra information given in the passage for interest. But the main aim was to explain the popularity.

Choosing a Title in Ielts Reading

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