🧭 IELTS Matching Headings Tips and Matching Information: 3 Passages

A complete strategy lesson for the two IELTS Reading question types that punish keyword matching: matching headings and matching information. It is written for candidates at band 5.5 to 7.0 who understand the passage but keep choosing the wrong heading. You learn the real difference between the two types, why there are always more headings than paragraphs, why the first sentence is often not the topic sentence, and how to read a paragraph for its function (claim, example, contrast, result) before you look at the options. Three original exam-style passages on the history of refrigeration, urban rewilding and sleep research give you two matching-headings sets and one matching-information set, and every answer explains both the paragraph's main idea and the distractor that tempts you. A paraphrase-families table, a timing plan, a common-mistakes table, a write-your-own-heading task, a speaking card and a final quiz complete the lesson.