A selection of English ESL ielts reading printables

This exercise helps learners practice identifying types of words.

Instruction: Work in small groups to decide what type of word is necessary in each gap. Then, complete each gap with ONE from the list

IELTS Reading

This is a practice IELTS reading test with answers a well as tips on how to respond to reading tests. This test can be also used in helping others understand how to look at a text and analyse it

IELTS READING PRACTICE TEST

practice T/F/N.G, matching headings, fill in the blank
- Investing in the Future
- Should space be explored by robots or by humans?
- The Tuatara—past and future

IELTS reading- full set

A mock IELTS reading on Advertising impact on children. The questions include Yes, No, Not Given, Sentence completion and Summary style questions. Designed for Intermediate - Upper Intermediate students.



Students should be able to complete the 12 questions in about 15 minutes.



Questions on page 2

Answers highlighted in text on page 3

Answer key on page 4

IELTS Reading: Advertising and children

This is a reading practice test for students learning IELTS or PTE English. You can use this is a practice test or a one on one activity with your students. This is a great resource to use and help your students prepare for the PTE or IELTS English exam.

PTE/IELTS Reading Practice Test

An Intermediate level reading to familiarise students with IELTS sentence completion and True, False, Not Given type questions. Particularly relevant to SE Asian students. Answers are on page 2.

IELTS Reading: KFC in Asia

IELTS style reading based on "How to be Buddhist in Today's World" by the Dalai Lama. The reading has 20 questions - 5 short answer, 6 True, False, Not Given and 9 match headings. 



This can be given to students as a MOCK IELTS READING text with a 15-20 minute time limit.



Also a great topic to introduce discussion about consumerism, materialism and the modern world.



Answers provided and highlighted in text on pages 4-6.

IELTS Reading: How to be Buddhist

This is a list of tips and advice to help learners who are about the take the IELTs reading test. 

They provide a guide on how much time to spend on each question, talk about how skim and scam, as well as basic advice on underlining key information etc.

TIPS FOR PASSING THE IELTS READING TEST

A health related IELTS style reading (504 words) outlining the problems arising from over-prescription and polypharmacy. Students are instructed about identifying keywords and finding the related passages in the text. As per IELTS, students must use a limited number of words in their answers.



Answers have been highlighted in the text on the second page.

IELTS Reading: Short answers: Overuse of Pills

IELTS reading practice:
- matching information
- matching names
- fill in the blanks
Answer:
14-B; 15-G; 16-E; 17-C; 18-A; 19-D; 20-A; 21-C; 22-A; 23-B; 24-AGING; 25-LIFESPAN; 26-CONFLICT

IELTS reading- will eating less makes you live longer?

Description

Bring real-world reading practice into your classroom with this engaging IELTS-style resource!
This lesson is based on a contemporary article about The Conservation Volunteers (TCV), an organisation dedicated to improving green spaces and biodiversity while supporting community wellbeing.

What’s Included:

Authentic reading passage (approx. 1,200 words)

4 IELTS-style task types:

Matching Information

True / False / Not Given

Sentence Completion

Short Answer Questions

Complete Answer Key for easy grading

Skills Covered:

Academic reading comprehension

Vocabulary building (environment, community, wellbeing)

Critical thinking and inference skills

Perfect For:

IELTS preparation (Band 5–7)

Upper-intermediate to advanced ESL/EFL learners

Environmental studies and cross-curricular lessons

IELTS Reading Practice: Environmental Volunteering & Community Action – Comprehension Tasks & Answer Key

For students to practice Reading True/False/Not Given skills

IELTS True/False/Not Given

Culture, intercultural communication, cross-cultural communication

Adjectives to describe feelings, emotions

Adjectives to describe personality and character

Adjectives: Gradable / Non-gradable adjectives

Articles: Definite or indefinite article (a, an or the)

BE + infinitive structures (e.g. he was to become famous)

Clauses of contrast (e.g.  although, while)

Clauses of purpose (e.g. in order to, so that, so as to)

Clauses of reason (e.g. because, because of, due to, as, since)

Cleft sentences (e.g. It's Joey we're looking for)

Comparison: Comparative adjectives and structures

Comparison: Superlative adjectives and structures

Conditional 2 (second conditional) - would

Conditionals: Conditional phrases (e.g. unless, provided that, as long as)

Conjunctions (aka connectives, e.g. and, but, or, so, then)

Contractions (shortened forms, e.g. don't, aren't, etc.)

Determiners (words that can come before nouns)

Formal and informal English (politeness or colloquial language)

Future perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Future perfect simple and continuous (progressive) tense

Future phrases (e.g. be about to, bound to, likely to, due to, set to + INF)

Homonyms (two words with the same pronunciation - homophones and homographs)

It as preparatory subject (e.g. it's raining, it's nice of you to)

Linking verbs (aka copulas, e.g. I am a student)

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Nouns: Collective nouns (team, class, family, committee)

Nouns: Proper nouns (names of people, cities, companies)

Oxymorons (phrases with words of contradictory meaning, e.g. living dead)

Participles: Past participle (e.g. HAVING DONE)

Participles: Present participle (e.g. DOING)

Parts of Speech (aka word classes, e.g. nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Past perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Phonetics (pronunciation, IPA, phonetic symbols)

Plural nouns: regular plurals with S ending

Prefixes (e.g. A, UN, IM, DIS, MIS, EN, etc. )

Prepositions vs adverbs (e.g. before me, saw him before.)

Prepositions: Double prepositions (e.g. out of)

Prepositions: Participle prepositions (e.g. pending, concerning)

Prepositions: Phrase prepositions (e.g. by means of)

Present perfect continuous (progressive) tense

Present perfect simple or present continuous tense

Present simple tense: S for third person singular verbs

Present simple vs continuous (progressive) tense

Pronouns: EACH OTHER, ONE ANOTHER (reciprocal pronouns)

Pronouns: Possessive pronouns (e.g. my, mine)

Pronouns: Reflexive pronouns (e.g. myself, yourself))

Pronouns: SOMEBODY, ANYBODY, EVERYBODY, NO ONE, NOTHING, etc.

Pronouns: THIS, THAT, THESE, THOSE (demonstratives)

Pronouns: YOU and THEY to talk about people in general

Quantifiers (e.g. some, many, much, any, few, little)

Questions: WH questions (open-ended questions)

Reported speech: reported questions (indirect questions)

There is / there are / there was / there were / there will be, etc.

Verbs: Transitive or intransitive verbs (words that can or cannot stand with objects)

Working with Paragraphs: ordering, titling

Role play, miming, drama activity or improv game

Pictionary (picture dictionary) or picture matching

Writing an opinion essay (persuasive essay)

Learners who are Pre-A1 have just begun learning English and will first learn how to:<ul><li>Say the letters in the alphabet and numbers</li><li>Say hello, talk about names and age</li><li>Name the colors and dates, express likes and dislikes</li></ul>

Absolute beginners who have begun to learn the letters and numbers

Learners taking the A1 Elementary exam should be able to:<ul><li>Introduce themselves and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, things he/she has, people he/she knows.</li><li>Communicate using very basic phrases as long as the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: common adjectives & adverbs of frequency, going to, how much/how many, imperatives, I'd like, 's – possessive, common prepositions of place and time, present simple & continuous, there is/are</li></ul>

A very basic tourist level, which is enough for buying food and a bus ticket

Learners taking the A2 Pre-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand sentences and frequently used expressions (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).</li><li>Complete tasks that are routine and exchange information about familiar matters.</li><li>Describe matters of immediate need in simple terms.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: countable/uncountable nouns, adverbs of frequency, future will/going to, much/many, present perfect, past simple, past continuous, common phrasal verbs, common modals: can/should</li></ul>

A tourist who can do basic conversations about the past, present and future

Learners taking the B1 Intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand points regarding family, work, school or leisure-related topics.</li><li>Deal with most travel situations in areas where the language is spoken.</li><li>Create simple texts on topics of personal interest.</li><li>Describe experiences, events, dreams, and ambitions, as well as opinions or plans in brief.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: question tags, intensifiers: too/enough, future tenses, past tenses, modals, conditionals, wh-questions in the past</li></ul>

Learners who can deal with both familiar and routine situations, in friendly and work contexts

Learners taking the B2 Upper-intermediate exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization.</li><li>Interact with fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without difficulty for either party.</li><li>Produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain an opinion on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.</li><li>Main grammar points to know: perfect tenses, mixed conditionals, modals in the present, phrasal verbs, reported speech, wish, relative clauses</li></ul>

The level where you can be a tour guide for your foreign friends and talk about a lot of topics, even abstract ones, with ease and fluency

Learners taking the C1 Advanced exam should be able to: Express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts. Produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, using linking phrases (=words that connect ideas between sentences). Main grammar points to know: inversion, mixed conditionals, modals in the past, all passive forms, phrasal verbs (all patterns), wish/if only for regrets

Learners who can smoothly communicate in every walk of life, read long texts and write well

Learners taking the C2 Proficient exam should be able to:<ul><li>Understand almost everything read or heard with ease.</li><li>Summarize information from a variety of sources into a coherent presentation.</li><li>Express themselves using precise meaning in complex scenarios.</li><li>Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations</li></ul>

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26 IELTS reading English ESL worksheets pdf & doc