All the words from this chapter. Test yourself, then write the same idea twice: once for Speaking, once for an essay.
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Five things this chapter taught. Tick only what holds when you are nervous and being recorded.
Twenty items, mixed. Put each one back with the job it does — or the reason to drop it.
Sort each item into the correct category
Ten questions across the chapter. Half of them turn on which paper you are sitting.
Weighted towards the three sprints that cost the most marks: register, naturalness and the avoid list.
Which sentence is correct?
A Task 2 paragraph with the memorised phrases stripped out — fill what should be there instead.
Since 2015, ride-hailing applications have replaced a substantial of licensed taxi journeys in several large cities. Drivers who once a steady income from a licensed vehicle now compete with a far larger pool, and of them earn less per hour than they did a decade ago. The on established operators has been severe: several long-standing firms have closed, and the reason in each case was an inability to match the pricing of an app-based competitor. Whether the change is permanent down to regulation rather than to technology, since the platforms a legal framework written before they existed. Cities that have to grips with this have introduced licensing rules that apply equally to both models. It is worth that the disruption has not been — it has arrived in waves, with each new regulation producing a fresh round of adjustment.
Say the same thing twice — once to a person, once on paper — and find out whether you control register or just formality.
The idea: whether working from home has been good for the people who do it.
First, as you would actually say it in Speaking Part 3 — two or three sentences, spoken register, using at least two naturalness phrases.
Second, as one or two sentences of Task 2 — formal register, no memorised openers.
This is the only task in the course that marks the distance between the two. A candidate who writes both the same way does not control register — they have one setting.
Use at least six Chapter 7 items across the two answers, and no phrase from the avoid list in either.
Two or three sentences. Spoken register, two or more naturalness phrases.
One or two sentences. Formal register, no memorised opener.
Name the two confusable pairs that are yours, and stop checking the other eight.