All the topic words from this chapter. Test yourself, then write a paragraph specific enough that someone could disagree with it.
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Five things this chapter taught. Tick only what changes what your sentences actually claim.
Twenty terms, mixed. Put each one back with the topic it belongs to.
Sort each item into the correct category
Ten questions across the chapter. Several options are real words used to say nothing.
Weighted towards the three sprints that appear most often in Task 2 and Speaking Part 3: environment, technology and education and work.
Which sentence names a mechanism rather than gesturing at technology?
A Task 2 paragraph that crosses all five topics — because real prompts usually do.
Cities that expand outward rather than upward generate a particular set of problems. sprawl lengthens journeys, which raises transport and increases the road space each household consumes. The resulting is not solved by building more roads, since new capacity fills within a few years. Outward growth also pushes such as clinics, libraries and parks further from the households that rely on them most, which strains cohesion in exactly the neighbourhoods where it is already weakest. Households without reliable are doubly disadvantaged, because services that move online become unreachable for them — the divide is a geographic problem as much as an economic one. The workforce affected too: long commutes are strongly associated with a lifestyle, and the health costs of that fall on provision rather than on the employers whose location decisions created them.
Write a paragraph someone could disagree with — then find out which band your lexis is sitting at.
Prompt: Some people believe that governments should invest in public transport rather than in road building. Others argue the money is better spent on digital infrastructure so that fewer journeys are needed at all. Discuss both views.
The prompt deliberately crosses two topics. Use terms from at least three of the five clusters:
The bar is not vocabulary, it is disputability. Every sentence you write should be one an informed person could disagree with on factual grounds. Before you submit, pick your longest word and ask whether the plain word would have done the same job.
Around five sentences. Six or more chapter terms, from three or more clusters.
One sentence. If you cannot name one, that is the finding.
Name the topic you write most vaguely about, and get those terms back first.