by IELTS Achieve Academy | Mar 21, 2023 | Grammar, Vocabulary
Verbs are an essential part of the English language, and they can be broadly categorized into two types: action verbs and linking verbs. While action verbs express actions, linking verbs connect the subject to additional information about its state or condition. In...
by IELTS Achieve Academy | Mar 20, 2023 | Grammar
Understanding subject-verb agreement is essential for mastering English grammar. Subject-verb agreement refers to the concept that the verb in a sentence must agree in number with the subject. In other words, singular subjects require singular verbs, while plural...
by IELTS Achieve Academy | Dec 11, 2022 | GT Reading Test, IELTS Reading
A. In Thailand, elephants are revered as a national symbol, but even there, the survival of great mammals is at risk. A century ago, more than 100,000 elephants worked in the Thai timber industry or roamed the forests. Today the number of elephants in captivity is...
by IELTS Achieve Academy | Dec 10, 2022 | Academic Reading Test, GT Reading Test, IELTS Reading
A new study conducted for the World Bank by Murdoch University’s Institute for Science and Technology Policy (ISTP) has demonstrated that public transport is more efficient than cars. The study compared the proportion of wealth poured into transport by...
by IELTS Achieve Academy | Dec 6, 2022 | Academic Reading Test, GT Reading Test, IELTS Reading
PASSAGE A. John Franklin (1786-1847) was the most famous vanisher of the Victorian era. He joined the Navy as a midshipman at the age of 14, and fought in the battles of Copenhagen and Trafalgar. When peace with the French broke out, he turned his attention to Arctic...
by IELTS Achieve Academy | Dec 6, 2022 | IELTS Reading
A. The world’s first wild algae biodiesel, produced in New Zealand by Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation, was successfully test-driven in Wellington by the Minister for Energy and Climate Change Issues, David Parker. In front of a crowd of invited guests, media and members...
by IELTS Achieve Academy | Dec 5, 2022 | IELTS Reading
Call us not weeds; we are flowers of the sea. Section A Seaweed is a particularly nutritious food, which absorbs and concentrates traces of a wide variety of minerals necessary to the body’s health. Many elements may occur in seaweed – aluminium, barium, calcium,...
by IELTS Achieve Academy | Dec 4, 2022 | Academic Reading Test, GT Reading Test, IELTS Reading
A. Three striking facts highlight the dramatic shift in recent years in the relative economic balance of “first-world” and “third-world” economies. Last year, according to our estimates, emerging economies produced slightly more than half of world output measured at...
by IELTS Achieve Academy | Dec 4, 2022 | Academic Reading Test, GT Reading Test, IELTS Reading
Mobiles are barred, but passengers can lap away on their laptops to their hearts’ content. Is one really safer than the other? In the US, a Congressional subcommittee grilled airline representatives and regulators about the issue last month. But the committee heard...
by IELTS Achieve Academy | Dec 4, 2022 | Academic Reading Test, IELTS Reading
Today they are everywhere. Production lines controlled by computers and operated by robots. There’s no chatter of assembly workers, just the whirr and click of machines. In the mid-1940s, the workerless factory was still the stuff of science fiction. There were no...
