Chapter 7: Register, Naturalness And The Avoid List

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   Sprint 7.1: Formal And Informal Registers

   Match register to task, understanding that over-formality in Speaking costs marks just as informality in Writing does.

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2. 02

   Sprint 7.2: Speaking Naturalness

   Acquire the small connective phrases that make spoken English sound unrehearsed, and buy thinking time without silence.

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3. 03

   Sprint 7.3: Safe Idiomatic Language

   Use the ordinary phrasal language Band 7 calls less common lexical items, while avoiding the decorative proverbs candidates mistake for idiom.

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4. 04

   Sprint 7.4: The Avoid List

   Identify the memorised phrases examiners discount, and replace each with content that carries meaning.

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5. 05

   Sprint 7.5: Precision Under Pressure

   Separate the word pairs Band 6.5 candidates confuse under time pressure, closing the last common source of lexical inaccuracy.

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6. 06

   Course Review: Everything You Now Control

   Consolidate all seven chapters, identify the learner's weakest cluster, and set what to revise before the exam.

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7. 07

   Chapter 7 Review: Sounding Like Yourself

   Learner retrieves all forty Chapter 7 items, sets register by task rather than by ambition, removes memorised phrases, and demonstrates control by writing the same idea twice — once for Speaking and once for Task 2.

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