Spotting Paraphrase In Reading And Listening

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1. 01

   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

   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

   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

   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

   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

   Review: Reading What Is Actually There

   All the paraphrase patterns from this chapter. Test yourself on what a passage really says, and what it does not.

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