Cohesive Device Mastery

B2 · Upper-intermediate47 minIELTS Test PreparationLesson 3 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: command the full connector range — and know when the most sophisticated choice is no connector at all.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Connectors that earn their place

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Advanced Cohesive Devices

    Read a 176-word text about Advanced Cohesive Devices

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Advanced Connectors

    6 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Improve Cohesion

    Error-correction exercise, 4 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Build Connected Sentences

    Word-ordering exercise, 4 items

  5. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: three versions of one paragraph

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.

notwithstandinginsofar aswherebyinasmuch ashithertothereby

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