Chapter 5: Paraphrase And Recognition

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1. 01

   Sprint 5.1: Size And Frequency Synonyms

   Recognise the size and frequency synonyms IELTS Reading uses to disguise a match between the question and the passage.

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2. 02

   Sprint 5.2: Nominalisation

   Recognise the verb-to-noun shift IELTS Reading uses to restructure sentences, and perform it in Writing for density.

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3. 03

   Sprint 5.3: Signposting In Listening

   Hear a discourse marker and predict what the speaker will do next — the main mechanism for surviving Listening Section 4.

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4. 04

   Sprint 5.4: Negation And Limitation Traps

   Spot negation buried inside a word rather than carried by not — the mechanism behind most False and Not Given errors.

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5. 05

   Sprint 5.5: Writer Attitude And Tone

   Identify the writer's stance from vocabulary choice — what Matching Features and writer-view questions actually test.

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6. 06

   Chapter 5 Review: Reading What Is Actually There

   Learner retrieves all forty Chapter 5 items, spots buried negation and nominalised actors under time pressure, and demonstrates the recognition skill by reporting what a passage does and does not say.

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