Name: 5 Easy Ways to Improve Cohesion in IELTS Writing Task 2
Uploaded: 2018-07-27T03:14:23.000Z
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My name is Ben Worthington and you've probably heard my voice

at maybe some other English learning website.

And today, we're going to focus entirely on improving cohesion.

And the good thing is, it's relatively easy.

So let's start. Let's get straight to it.

So first of all, I want you to look at collocations. And especially four word collocations.

These are really interesting facets of the English language. Right?

First of all, I'll go over this pretty quickly, alright?

First of all, they make you sound more natural and more cohesive

The listener (probably a native speaker) is expecting this combination

so they don't have to focus that much. It just flows.

So if you can incorporate these into your writing,

it's going to sound much better and most importantly

you're not going to make as many mistakes.

Because you've got a string of words which are perfect together

and therefore there's less chance of making a mistake.

Okay? So you're reducing the error, using grammatically perfect constructions.

This will increase your score for grammatical range and accuracy.

Now, if you have a pen, write these down.

Write these down for a number of reasons.

Secondly, you can use them in your essays when you start writing one.

(Hopefully today. Hopefully this afternoon maybe or this morning... whatever.)

It's good practice for your listening, for associating sounds to words

you'll understand how it's pronounced first, rather than looking at it,

This may be due to the various aspects of the new technology.

There are a number of different sources of pollution.

This is really helpful, actually because not only is it superlative

but it's also... You can use this in the examples which we'll look at in a second.

For example: London is one of the most densely populated cities in the world.

If you're writing these down, I'd recommend you write down

Maybe write a few sentences of you own, using the collocations.

Russia is one of the most important natural energy suppliers in the world.

The United States plays an important role in administering trade contracts,

The results of this study (this is another good one)...

sometimes you will use studies from the IMF and then you can say,

"The results of this study (or these studies) show that

gender inequality is still a dream to be reached."

Now, I'll go over the next ones a little bit faster.

That's just another way to say "because" but you're saying "because" in 5 words.

Then if you really want to go a little bit further, you can say

"This may be due to the fact that 9 out of 10 people in Britain love the weather."

The results of this study... (Like we said before.)

Europe has an important role in the agreement of trade deals, internationally. (For example)

In the case of Italy, conditions were changed drastically. (For example)

Or in the case of the third-world blah, blah, blah. Okay?

Now, these ones... I have a list of the 10... No, I think... Of the 20 most common four

And I extracted the ones I felt most useful for an IELTS essay.

So these ones are very common in academic writing.

So another reason why you should be writing them down.

Now, let's have a look at some of these collocations actually in the introduction

So we're going to look at "is one of the most,"

So we could say, "Economic development is one of the most

critical elements of government policy due to the fact that... blah blah blah.

And here, we can just change that to any topic.

If we have a question about education (public and private for example), we could say

"Public education is one of the most important challenges facing the western world today."

"This may be due to the fact that..." blah blah blah.

And if we are going to use this in our introductory sentence to the essay...

Which I think is a good idea because in that first sentence,

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