Achieving Coherence and Cohesion

B2 · Upper-intermediate54 minIELTS Test PreparationLesson 7 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: a Task 1 report that flows without linking-word soup — referencing, participles and implicit contrast.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Invisible joins

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Coherence and Cohesion in Task 1

    Read a 250-word text about Coherence and Cohesion in Task 1

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Cohesion Devices

    6 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Improve the Cohesion

    Error-correction exercise, 4 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Reference Words

    Matching exercise, 6 items

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Build Cohesive Sentences

    Word-ordering exercise, 4 items

  6. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: de-robotise the paragraph

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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by comparisoncorrespondinglynotablyconverselythe former... the latterwhereby

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