IELTS READING – The effects of light on plant and animal species S32AT3

IELTS READING S32AT3 The effects of light on plant and animal species Light is important to organisms for two different reasons. Firstly it Is used as a cue for the timing of daily and seasonal rhythms in both plants and animals, and secondly it is used to assist growth in plants. Breeding in most organisms […]

IELTS REDAING – Flawed Beauty: the problem with toughened glass S32AT2

IELTS READING S32AT2 Flawed Beauty: the problem with toughened glass On 2nd August 1999, a particularly hot day in the town of Cirencester in the UK, a large pane of toughened glass in the roof of a shopping centre at Bishops Walk shattered without warning and fell from its frame. When fragments were analysed by […]

IELTS READING – Disappearing Delta S31AT2

IELTS READING S31AT2 Disappearing Delta A. The fertile land of the Nile delta is being eroded along Egypt’s Mediterranean coast at an astounding rate, in some parts estimated at 100 metres per year. Q18 In the past, land scoured away from the coastline by the currents of the Mediterranean Sea used to be replaced by sediment brought […]

IELTS READING – Early Childhood Education S31AT1

IELTS READING S31AT1 Early Childhood Education New Zealand’s National Party spokesman on education, Dr Lockwood Smith, recently visited the US and Britain. Here he reports on the findings of his trip and what they could mean for New Zealand’s education policy A. ’Education To Be More’ was published last August. It was the report of the […]