Cut and Run

Condensed IELTS Test

Tutor: Zeb Blaidslade (San Francisco)

Students: Tracy, Abeer, Marina, Andriy Ashland, Martin  urricane

This lesson was aimed to improve our scanning skills when reading a text. We received a link that redirected us to BBC news website. The task was to read an article about a new theft that has been happening in South Africa. Apparently some people were mugged on the street of Johannesburg and had their dreadlocks stolen. It is quite bizarre but supposedly there is a growing market for dreadlocks as hairstylists have found a new way of waving dreadlock into the hair of a customer.  Since this way of styling has been quite recent, the hair saloons haven’t managed to build up stockpiles of suitable locks.  The demand is high and some hair saloons don’t care where the locks come from. Therefore some thieves are willing mug people of their locks. I think that it must absolutely terrible experience being mugged of something as personal as anyone’s hair…..

After reading this article we were given questions that we needed to answer and then send them to our tutor. It was an interesting article and good to further improve an understanding of English.