Review: Holding A Position — IELTS Collocation: Use The Words That Belong Together

What You Should Now Control

Five things this chapter taught. Tick only what you could do without a phrase bank in front of you.

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Tick what you can do right now

Two tests worth carrying into the exam

Sort the Whole Chapter

Twenty items, mixed. Put each one back with the job it does in an argument.

Sort each item into the correct category

Weakens a claim

Concedes or pivots

Ranks or narrows

Judges an argument

Proposes a mechanism

Unassigned

arguably

may well

to some extent

appear to

albeit

notwithstanding

nevertheless

granted

above all

not least

take precedence over

crucially

unwarranted

compelling

misleading

plausible

phase out

incentivise

enforce

subsidise

Mixed Recall

Ten questions across the chapter. Several options are grammatical and claim the wrong thing.

Weighted towards the three sprints that decide most Task 2 marks: hedging, concession and recommending.

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Which sentence hedges once, correctly?

One Paragraph, Five Clusters

A discuss-both-views paragraph needing an item from every part of this chapter.

Fill each gap with ONE word unless the hint says otherwise. Watch what has to follow each item — a clause, a noun phrase, or a bare adjective.

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that congestion charging places a heavier burden on lower-income drivers, and this objection deserves a serious answer rather than a dismissal. , the evidence from cities that have adopted such schemes to show a clear fall in traffic volumes within two years. Opponents that the fall is temporary, but that claim rests on a single early study and is therefore on its own. , the strongest argument for the policy is not congestion at all but air quality, which affects the same low-income neighbourhoods most heavily. A charge is effective, blunt, and its weaknesses can be corrected: cities could discounted rates for residents, or the oldest and most polluting vehicles gradually rather than charging everyone equally from the first day. What matters is that authorities the revenue toward the bus network, since a charge that funds nothing simply taxes movement.

Chapter Production Task

Concede, pivot and propose in one paragraph — then find out which band your lexis is sitting at.

Write one Task 2 body paragraph — around five sentences — using at least six items from this chapter.

Prompt: Some people believe that governments should ban private cars from city centres. Discuss this view and give your own opinion.

The paragraph must do three things in order:

concede something that genuinely troubles your position
pivot away from it
propose one mechanism, named precisely

Use at least six Chapter 3 items from at least three of the five clusters:

hedging · concession · emphasis · evaluation · recommending

Before you submit, apply the two tests: does your concession concede anything an opponent would actually claim, and would anything be physically different the day after your proposal began?

Your body paragraph*

Around five sentences. Concede, pivot, propose.

Which chapter items did you use?*

Just the items, separated by commas.

Your Weakest Cluster

Name the cluster you trust least, and get those items back first.

Learners can ask follow-up questions and keep the thread going.

Five clusters in this chapter:

hedging · concession · emphasis · evaluation · recommending

Which one did you get wrong most often today?

Name it, and say what goes wrong in one sentence. In this chapter the failure is usually one of two things: the grammar pattern after the item, or the strength of the claim it makes. They need different practice.

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