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Cause / Effect / Solution Essay revision

Criteria: · Content and ideas · Organisation · Language

65 minutes writing 300 words minimum

Useful language: Cause & effect – verb and adverb phrases Solutions – need/must/have to/should/could Discourage / encourage / promote / enforce / limit / restrict / ban Passive verbs – try to avoid “I/we/they” Conditionals Zero: When cities grow, pollution increases. First: If the air becomes polluted, we will suffer from illnesses. Second: If there was no pollution, people wouldn’t suffer disease.

Here are the sentences you corrected in class today! It's a good habit to check your own work carefully after writing - anything that you can fix will improve your score in the exam. Problems in these sentences included subject/verb agreement, prepositions, word forms, articles, noun phrases, relative clauses, etc.

Here are the cause/effect diagrams you drew in groups on Thurs 28Oct: Analysing a topic like this is a very useful process. It helps you to look more carefully at a situation or problem and see the relationships between various factors.

Here are the cause and effect stories you wrote on Fri 29Oct Nice work! There was love, revenge, frustration, bad weather, illness, and death. I hope you found this to be useful English practice! Here are some of the skills you used: Reading, writing, listening, speaking, discussion, debate, suggestion, clarification, assessing and comparing alternative ideas, ....