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All of Them, or These Ones
An unbounded group and a bounded one.
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The box is the article. Without a box, there is nothing to point at.
Learner writes general statements with no article — the most common article context in Task 2 — and distinguishes them from specific reference.
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Six Task 2 sentences. Four carry an article that should not be there.
Which is correct?
The general/particular test, the same noun both ways, and the five fixed phrases.
Most essay sentences talk about things everywhere, not particular ones.
Plural and uncountable nouns used this way take no article.
✓ Children need education.
✓ Pollution is a serious problem.
This is the most common article situation in the exam.
An unbounded group and a bounded one.
The box is the article. Without a box, there is nothing to point at.
Sixteen items. Every noun appears in both columns.
Sort each item into the correct category
Eight gaps. Five are empty. Three are correctly definite.
education is the strongest tool a country has.
In most countries, children now stay at school until sixteen.
education system in my country was reformed in 2015.
Since then, unemployment among school leavers has fallen.
technology has also changed what employers want.
technology used in most offices did not exist twenty years ago.
governments cannot solve this alone.
government of my city has started a training programme.
Two claims about a social problem, both about all of them.
Write two sentences about a social problem.
crime · unemployment · young people · governments · education · technology
Each sentence should be about all of them, not about particular ones.
Keep both sentences short.
Two sentences, one per line.
Name the noun, then say which.