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Emphasizing Important Information

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  • Communicative Objective: Learn to emphasize important ideas, contrast expectations with reality, and draw attention to specific parts of a message using advanced sentence structures.
  • 5 Core Functional Sentences:
    1. What concerns me most is the lack of a clear long-term strategy.
    2. It was the unexpected increase in costs that caused the greatest difficulty.
    3. What we need is a solution that can be implemented without disrupting normal operations.
    4. The reason I raised the issue was that several people had reported the same problem.
    5. Not only did the new system reduce costs, but it also improved overall efficiency.
  • Grammar Focus: Cleft and pseudo-cleft sentences; emphatic structures; negative inversion with not only; relative clauses.
  • Vocabulary Focus: emphasize, highlight, crucial, significant, priority
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