IELTS Essentials Practice Tests (Thomson Exam Essential Practic)

# Paperback: 256 pages
# Publisher: Thomson ELT (August 20, 2006)
# ISBN-10: 1424088429
# ISBN-13: 978-1424088423

Product Description
"IELTS Practice Tests" provides students with an essential combination of exam information, task guidance and realistic exam practice.Six complete practice tests, based on the latest exam specifications, cover every main task type and a wide range of typical IELTS topic areas and situations. Task Guide and Step-by-Step Guide sections in Tests 1 and 2 offer comprehensive guidance for each task type, with important advice and helpful mini-exercises. A clear and highly detailed key provides answers for each Listening and Reading task, with explanatory notes. Sample answers and commentary for the Speaking and Writing tasks include explanations of the assessment guidelines used in the exam. A complete and separate General training module comprises Reading and Writing components for two tests. Audio Tapes and Audio CDs include material for the Listening paper recorded in realistic exam format. ExamView[registered] CD-Rom provides additional question banks that can be easily used to create additional exam practice

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IELTS essay - Are ads making us to buy more?

This task was taken from the book Cambridge IELTS 6 Student's Book with answers: Examination papers from University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations (IELTS Practice Tests) by Cambridge ESOL.


Nowadays millions of companies produce billions of products and the role of advertising is quite obvious. Ads help consumers to find the goods or services of their needs. However, do our needs grow equally fast as the number of products? Some market analysts insist modern commercials are not merely matchmakers of a product and a consumer, but actively interfere with buyer’s desires, developing artificial needs.


Undoubtedly, advertisement guides people through the market, serves those who do not have time to learn differences between goods. These products are probably the same, but loyalty to a particular brand, formed by a commercial helps make a choice. When a person buys one mobile phone out of 50 models, he thinks he made his choice himself. But that was a commercial who told him about the features of this phone.


Nevertheless, ads not only inform us about new goods, but force people to want them. This can be even useful, for example for someone who suffers from back pains and without commercials he would never imagine there are new mattresses which could ease their pains.


Unfortunately, promoters now operate our minds more aggressively. Commercials no longer promote products, but lifestyles. They told us to purchase things just because they are fashionable or up to date with the image of successful person. And we buy new cars, gadgets and clothes in order to match this image and not because old ones are no longer usable.


Personally I think that high sales of popular commodities are the result of new promotional technologies. The best illustration of that is that everyone now is concerned mostly about how a new mobile phone will reflect his personality, a new shirt – his image, or will a new car make colleagues feel jealous.