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effects, it causes a great loss of water, since the almond trees are very thirsty. And then the rest of the paragraph is about how devastating this is to the environment because they drink so much water. Take a look at the titles. Which of these is about almond milk and its impact on the environment? Well, if you see the number 23, you can see concerns about water consumption. This paragraph deals mainly with the concern over the water consumption of almond trees. Let's do the next one. Soy milk is the oldest alternative to animal milks and is made by dissolving soybeans in water in terms of nutrition, okay, so soy milk and nutrition.

Take a look at the titles. If you look closely at number 19, you will see that soy milk food is a good title for this particular paragraph. Let's do the last one.   In terms of environmental impact, unlike cow's and almond milk, soy uses very little water. And according to Dr. Karim, land use and greenhouse gas emissions are negligible.   The problem with soy milk is its popularity not as milk but as livestock feed.   Hmmm, let's look at the list so far. Well, you can see the number 22 there. The ecological problems of soy milk. Now, similar to matching sentence endings, which we saw earlier, generally, no, generally no.

There are always more sentence endings than subjects. Similarly, in this one, there will be more paragraph headings than paragraphs. So what we're looking at here is a little simplified, but hopefully it gives you a good idea. Well,   before we look at the next type of question, I want to tell you about the mini mock test. One of the ways you can assess whether you are ready to take the IELTS test and will pass first time is to take a mock test, but not

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And most of all, it will give you tons of feedback. One of the interesting things is that you can take an individual oral test with one of E2's expert teachers.   It's a good idea before test day, even if you've taken the IELTS test before and want to know why you didn't pass it. The mock test will provide you with all the feedback you need to find out what your weak areas are.  Okay, let's look at type of question number nine.   We're almost there. This is party information.  Question type number nine matches the information.   Well, this is similar to matching titles, but matching titles involved summarizing the entire paragraph and determining a good title for it.  This deals with specific information within the paragraph.

It's basically asking you in which paragraph you can find this information here, let's take a look at the list. 25 bothers important insects or 26, is very watery 27, contains a variety of vitamins, 28, has the most devastating environmental impact. The passage has five paragraphs labeled A through E, whose paragraphs contain the following information. Choose the correct letter from A to D for questions 25 to 28. Please note that you can use any letter more than once. Okay, let's look at paragraph A. But what I'm going to do is save you time and 25, 26, 27, 28 don't relate to paragraph A. Let's look at paragraph B.

It was about the health benefits of milk. of cow. Take a look at 25 to 28. Which of them is related or which of them has information that is also contained in paragraph B? Hopefully you chose 27 to be B. It contains a variety of vitamins, you can see the detail there, vitamin A, D, B-12.   Take a look at paragraph C. It's about the environmental impact of cow's milk. Now take a look at the information. It bothers important insects, is very watery, contains a variety of vitamins and has the most devastating environmental impact. That, my friends, is where you would write C.

In short, that information about being the most devastating to the environment is mentioned in this particular paragraph. Therefore, we will write C. Paragraph D is about the health benefits of almond milk. Check out the list of information here. Do you remember anything about it being watery? That's because it is number 26. Therefore, we would write D. In short, it is very watery. Almond milk is very watery, it was contained in this particular paragraph. Finally, it was about the impact of almond milk on the environment. And he mentioned something about bees. And you can see the number 25 there.

Annoys important insects. Therefore, you would write E. This is quite complicated, because what you are doing is

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that little piece of information and you think: where was it located? In what paragraph?  Was that detail referring to the bees or the wateriness of a particular dairy product?  Well, that's why you have to read the paragraphs to do that. Okay, let's take a look at question type number 10. Matching features,   matching features of question type number 10. Okay, I don't know if you were paying attention. But within each of those paragraphs, or almost all of the paragraphs, people were mentioned, you remember Dr.

Mary Wilks and Dr. Abdul Karim, etc. Now we're going to have to work with those people to find specific information they said. , Let's take a closer look.   So what we finally need to do is match each of the statements. 29, the math on water consumption or a false scientific claim is milk most harmful, stick with what you know, there is a misconception about diet. These are the statements, we need to match these statements with A, B, C, D or E. In other words, with the person who said it, for example, who said something about mathematics about water consumption?

Who said anything about a false scientific claim? Who said anything about milk being more harmful or sticking with what you know or dietary mistake?   Let's take a closer look at the paragraphs. Well, within this paragraph you can see the name Marcus Adams. And here you can see C Marcus Adams. Now, what did Marcus Adams say?   Marcus Adams says there are many reasons to stick to the more classic type of milk.   In other words, number 32, stick with what you know. That's the answer for 32   C. Look at this paragraph that mentions Dr. Mary Wilks. What does Dr. Mary Wilks say?

Well, she says that it is indisputable that cow's milk is the worst possible option for the planet.   Which of those statements from 29 to 33 says the same thing? If you look closely, 31 says the same thing. So, we're going to write A next to 31, which is Dr. Mary Wilks.   Take a look at this paragraph. Can you see a name there? I can see Peter Jenners. What did he say? Well, he says that while many people turn to almond milk because of its low fat content, most don't

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that its sugar content is actually to blame for weight gain, not the fat.

So from 29 to 33 we have already eliminated a couple. Which of these is or could be attributed to Peter Jenners? And that's number 33. There's a dietary misconception there.   Take a look at this paragraph. This is where Dr. Abdul Karim says something, now he estimates that a single almond seed requires up to 10 liters of water to grow. Take a look at the statements, hopefully he can match Dr. Abdul Karim to the number 29, which is B. Finally, we are looking at Samantha Deubey. What does she say? Well, she said something about soy milk not causing breast cancer, remember that was a misattribution.  Therefore, you may see the number 30, a false scientific claim.

We would write E next to the number 30. Hopefully, you got B A C D for that particular type of question. Holy cow, we've reached the end. We asked 10 of 11 possible types of questions. The only type of question we didn't ask is called diagram labeling completion because, simply put, you couldn't create a diagram about what we're looking at unless you made a cow and pointed to the cow. But that would have been strange. If you want to practice completing diagram labeling, click the link in the description below. Go to E2Language.com and register for an IELTS preparation course.

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