雅思考試分爲聽、說、讀、寫四個部分，從聽、說、讀、寫四個方面考查雅思考生的英語語言能力。大部分考生認爲這四部分是各自爲營，互無關聯的，而實際上並非如此。其中，閱讀和寫作的關係最爲密切的，因此也就有了"閱寫不分家"的說法。考生們如果在準備雅思考試的過程中能夠把閱讀和寫作結合起來，雙管齊下，就可以收到一箭雙鵰的效果。
話題的結合
很多考生在寫作文的過程中，通常抱怨沒有思路，無話可說；而在做閱讀的過程中，考生又常常抱怨文章看不懂，不知所云。實際上很多雅思閱讀文章和雅思大作文話題類似，考生如果在準備雅思的過程中能把兩者很好地結合，就不會出現作文沒有思路，閱讀不知所云的`情況了，因爲考生可以運用寫作中所積累的知識，猜出類似話題的閱讀文章中的內容，同樣也可以運用雅思閱讀文章中的內容來構思大作文。
在劍4 test2 passage 1 Lost for Words 這篇文章中就涉及了語言消亡的原因、影響及拯救辦法：
The critically endangered languages are those that are only spoken by the elderly. （原因）
Why do people reject the language of their parents It begins with a crisis of confidence, when a small community find itself along a larger, wealthier society. People lose faith in their own culture. （原因）
Quite often, governments try to kill off a minority language by banning its use in public or discouraging its use in schools, all to promote national unity. （原因）
The deadliest weapon is not government policy but economic globalization. （原因）
When an unwritten and unrecorded language disappears, it is lost to science. (影響)
Language is intimately bound up with culture, so it may be difficult to preserve one without the other. (影響)
The loss of diversity may also deprive us of different ways of looking at the world. (影響)
The key to fostering diversity is for people to learn their ancestral tongue, as well as the dominant language. （拯救措施）