Choosing a title for IELTS reading. This is another question type that appears in the IELTS Reading test which many people overlook because it isn’t a common one. However, it does appear and each answer you get write is a valuable point so it is worth preparing and training for this type of question.
Choosing a Title Tips
- This is about choosing a title, not matching information
- This reading exercise has only one question – to choose a title. However, normally this question would be given as the final question of the reading passage. This means you would already have answers over 10 questions on the passage before you come to this one.
- The best title is the one that matching the whole aim of the passage.
IELTS Reading Choosing a Title Practice Lesson
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.
Question: Which is the best title for the passage above?
Choose the correct letter A – C
A. Coffee – a popular hot drink
B. Coffee – the main consumers
C. Coffee – the main producers
ANSWER
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ANSWERThe correct answer is A
Explanation:
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.
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