Advanced Grammar for Trends

B2 · Upper-intermediate40 minIELTS Test PreparationLesson 4 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: Band 7 grammatical range on demand — nominalisation, participle clauses and passives for describing trends.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Three ways to say one rise

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Grammatical Sophistication

    Read a 137-word text about Grammatical Sophistication

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Nominalization Examples

    6 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Upgrade to Nominalization

    Error-correction exercise, 4 items

  4. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: the transformation drill

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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expansionaccelerationdeteriorationstabilizationrecoverytransformation

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