IELTS READING – Left or right? S12AT3
IELTS READING Left or right? An overview of some research into lateralisation: the dominance of one side of the body over the other A. Creatures across the animal kingdom have a preference for one foot, eye or even antenna. The cause of this trait, called lateralisation, is fairly simple: one side of the brain, which […]
IELTS READING – Domestic robots S13AT1
IELTS READING Domestic robots Machines that look after your home are getting cleverer, but they still need care and attention if they are to perform as intended. Floor-cleaning machines capable of responding to their environment were among the first commercially available domestic products worthy of being called robots. The best known is the Roomba, made […]
IELTS READING – Fatal Attraction S11AT2
IELTS READING Fatal Attraction Evolutionist Charles Darwin first marvelled at flesh-eating plants in the mid-19th century. Today, biologists, using 21st-century tools to study cells and DNA, are beginning to understand how these plants hunt, eat and digest – and how such bizarre adaptations arose in the first place. A. The leaves of the Venus flytrap […]
IELTS READING – Why Are Finland’s Schools Successful? S10AT1
IELTS READING Why Are Finland’s Schools Successful? The country’s achievements in education have other nations doing their homework. A. At Kirkkojarvi Comprehensive School in Espoo, a suburb west of Helsinki, Kari Louhivuori, the school’s principal, decided to try something extreme by Finnish standards. One of his sixth-grade students, a recent immigrant, was falling behind, resisting […]