IELTS Reading and Video Units
Unit Theme Reading A Reading B Video Vocabulary
Reading Skill Critical Thinking
Building
1 Food and Sweet Love Food for the Space Food Skimming for the Main Idea of Phrasal verbs with
Health Future Paragraphs cut Applying Ideas
Identifying the Purpose of Collocations for Evaluating Items
Paragraphs size adjectives
2 Call of the Wild Song of the The 1,000-Year The Lion’s Identifying Reasons
Humpback Bird Song Roar Prefix inter- Applying Concepts;
Understanding Pronoun Reference
Suffix -tion Synthesizing
Information
3 History Was King Tut Who Killed the Walking with
Scanning for Details
Detectives Murdered? Iceman? Giants
4 Traditions and Living The Changing Dragon Boat Words acting as
Rituals Treasures Face of Kung Fu Festival Creating a Timeline of Events nouns and verbs Justifying Opinions
Distinguishing Facts from (1) Evaluating
Speculation Collocations with Evidence
cruel
5 Finding The Secrets in The Stories in Digging into Dealing with Unfamiliar Vocabulary Applying Ideas
Wonders the Sand the Rocks the Past (1)—Using Context Prefix pro- Relating
Differentiating Between Main Ideas Prefix en- Information;
and Supporting Details Applying Ideas
6 Reef Cities Beneath The Truth Ocean Words acting as
Encounters the Sea about Great Megabuilders Interpreting Infographics nouns and verbs
Analyzing Claims
Whites Dealing with Unfamiliar Vocabulary (2)
Ranking Items
(2)—Affixes Collocations with
access
7 Dollars and The Flower The Power of Flowers from Understanding Cause-and-Effect
Collocations with Evaluating Ideas
Scents Trade Perfume Ecuador Relationships
negative Analyzing Reasons;
Recognizing Contrastive
Prefix in- Evaluating Sources
Relationships
8 Great Explorers An Incredible The Travels of The Legend Summarizing Using a Venn Diagram Suffix -able Applying Ideas
Journey Ibn Battuta of Marco Recognizing and Understanding Collocations with Evaluating Pros and
Polo Synonyms distinctive Cons
9 Identity The Teenage Seeing Double The Global Inferring
Word forms of
Brain Village Taking Notes on a Reading (1) Information
admire and
Taking Notes on a Reading (2)— Applying Ideas;
observe
Using a Concept Map Evaluating
Prefix mis-
Arguments
10 Facing Change The Big Thaw Life on the Edge The Sled Phrasal verbs with
Reflecting
Dogs of Understanding Claims go
Justifying Opinions;
Greenland Making Inferences Collocations with
Reflecting
severe
11 Fact or Fake? The Knowledge The Limits of Smile Trial Evaluating Claims
Collocations with
Illusion Lying Identifying Supporting Information Analyzing
shift
Identifying Arguments For and Arguments;
Phrasal verbs with
Against an Issue Inferring
up
Information
12 Going to The Dream of Dark Descent Sea Caves Collocations with
Dealing with Unfamiliar Vocabulary
Extremes Flight average Evaluating a Claim
(3)—Using a Dictionary
Word forms of Applying Ideas
Understanding a Research Summary
honest
Synonyms for
Understanding Definitions in a Text Ranking Activities
fantastic
Taking Notes on a Reading (3)— Synthesizing
Collocations with
Creating a Visual Summary Information
out of
Reading Skill Vocabulary Building Critical Thinking
Skimming for the Main Idea of
Phrasal verbs with cut Applying Ideas
Paragraphs
Reading Skill Vocabulary Building Critical Thinking
Identifying the Purpose of Collocations for size
Evaluating Items
Paragraphs adjectives
Understanding Pronoun Identifying Reasons
Prefix inter-
Reference
Applying Concepts; Synthesizing
Suffix -tion
Scanning for Details Information
Creating a Timeline of Events Words acting as nouns and
Justifying Opinions
verbs (1)
Distinguishing Facts from
Evaluating Evidence
Speculation Collocations with cruel
Dealing with Unfamiliar
Vocabulary (1)—Using Context Prefix pro- Applying Ideas
Differentiating Between Main Prefix en- Relating Information; Applying Ideas
Ideas and Supporting Details
Interpreting Infographics Words acting as nouns and
Analyzing Claims
verbs (2)
Dealing with Unfamiliar
Ranking Items
Vocabulary (2)—Affixes Collocations with access
Understanding Cause-and-
Effect Relationships Collocations with negative Evaluating Ideas
Recognizing Contrastive Prefix in- Analyzing Reasons; Evaluating Sources
Relationships
Summarizing Using a Venn
Diagram Suffix -able Applying Ideas
Recognizing and Understanding Collocations with distinctive Evaluating Pros and Cons
Synonyms
Reading Skill Vocabulary Building Critical Thinking
Taking Notes on a Reading (1) Word forms of admire and
Inferring Information
observe
Taking Notes on a Reading (2)
Applying Ideas; Evaluating Arguments
—Using a Concept Map Prefix mis-
Understanding Claims Phrasal verbs with go Reflecting
Making Inferences Collocations with severe Justifying Opinions; Reflecting
Identifying Supporting
Evaluating Claims
Information Collocations with shift
Analyzing Arguments; Inferring
Identifying Arguments For and Phrasal verbs with up
Information
Against an Issue
Dealing with Unfamiliar
Vocabulary (3)—Using a
Collocations with average Evaluating a Claim
Dictionary
Word forms of honest Applying Ideas
Understanding a Research
Summary
Understanding Definitions in a
Text Synonyms for fantastic Ranking Activities
Taking Notes on a Reading (3) Collocations with out of Synthesizing Information
—Creating a Visual Summary