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IELTS Preparation Series 2, Episode 17: Naturopathic Medicine


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Hello. I'm Margot Politis. Welcome to Study English, IELTS preparation.

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Today on Study English, you'll have the chance to practice your reading comprehension skills.

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These are important skills, not just for the IELTS reading test, but for general academic

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studies as well.

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Today, we'll focus on the skills you need to answer the range of question types in the

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IELTS reading test.

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Let's begin by taking a look at the text.

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So there's our comprehension piece.

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It seems quite long. But let's start at the beginning.

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Read the title.

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We know that the passage is about naturopathic medicine.

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Do you know anything about the subject?

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You know the word medicine, but maybe not naturopathic.

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It's OK if you don't. You don't need to understand every word. We can probably figure out the

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meaning by paying attention to the context the word is used in, or by looking closely

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at the parts of the word.

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We know that naturopathic is an adjective, because it qualifies medicine.

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Now, let's break naturopathic down.

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The first part naturo- sounds like nature.

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The ending is the suffix -ic. Do you know other words that end in -ic?

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How about photographic or historic?

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The suffix -ic means relating to or of.

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So we could guess that naturopathic means something like relating to nature.

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Then we can guess that the meaning of naturopathic medicine is something like medicine that heals

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in a natural way.

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Can you think of any words you know that might belong to this subject?

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How about:

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herbs

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plants

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health

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healing or

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disease

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Let's look at the text again. After you've looked at the heading, look for some other

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clues as to what it is about.

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Are there any illustrations or diagrams? What's the layout like? All these things will help

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your understanding of the subject.

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What kind of text do you think this is?

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It doesn't look like a newspaper article or an instruction manual. It's not an advertisement

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or a timetable. It's probably an article from a journal. We

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can tell by the style, the subject and the way it looks.

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Did you notice the asterisk near the end of the text?

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When an asterisk is used like this, extra information or explanation is given at the

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bottom of the page.

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What we've just done is to use the skills of previewing and predicting.

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We put together all the information we could about the text we are reading.

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We looked for a title, a diagram or any other information set apart - like the asterisk

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at the end of the text.

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We also made some educated guesses about what is in the article, by predicting some common

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words we might expect to see.

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Previewing and predicting before you start reading can help you process information quickly,

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because you know what to expect. It can also help you to follow the author's ideas better,