IELTS Reading: 🏥Back to the future of skyscraper design.

<p>This passage 2 Academic IELTS Reading is a <strong>problem-solution</strong> structure.</p> <ul> <li><strong>The problem</strong>: air-conditioning units generate <em>'spectacular and largely unnecessary energy use and carbon emissions'.</em></li> <li><strong>The solution:</strong> use natural ventilation, as they did in 19th-century hospitals.</li> </ul> <p>This IELTS Reading is packed full of useful vocab like <em>'to squander energy'</em> (= to waste) and <em>'it uses a FRACTION of the electricity/at a FRACTION of the energy cost'</em> (=a small or tiny part, amount, or proportion of something).</p> <p>There were also some interesting uses of <strong>nouns as adjectives</strong> <em>(wards in hospitals = hospital wards)</em> - see my blog about this useful IELTS topic <a href="https://ieltsetc.com/2021/06/nouns-as-adjectives/">here:</a></p> <p>https://ieltsetc.com/2021/06/nouns-as-adjectives/</p> <p>and <strong>adjectives as nouns</strong> <em>('the prosperous' = the people who are prosperous and 'the public').</em></p> <p>Get all my <a href="https://ieltsetc.com/ielts-reading/">reading tips and advice</a> on my website:</p> <p>https://ieltsetc.com/ielts-reading/</p> --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ieltsetc/message