Concise and cohesive formal writing

Last updated: 15/11/2023
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Concise and cohesive formal writing
Main Subject
Exam board
Category
ELT: Society
Resource type
Complete lesson
Skills
Writing

Suitable for anyone who needs to write formal English. Students analyse and practise techniques for combining simple sentences into paragraphs in the context of 'the oldest person in the world'.

Task 3

Rewrite the following groups of sentences to make concise and cohesive paragraphs:

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Cynthia Velazco was issued a passport in the early 1970s.

Cynthia Velazco's passport shows that Cynthia Velazco was born in the Cajamarca region on 27th April 1883.

Now there has been a national census in Peru.

After the national census, she has been 'rediscovered'.

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I will use this lesson with a group of doctors who are non native English speakers practising their English writing skills.

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I will use this lesson with a group of doctors who are non native English speakers practising their English writing skills.

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