- Communicative Objective: Learn to explain why situations occur, describe immediate and long-term consequences, and connect causes and effects logically.
- 5 Core Functional Sentences:
- The decline was largely caused by changes in consumer behavior.
- As a result of the new policy, operating costs have decreased considerably.
- One significant consequence of the delay is that the entire schedule may have to be revised.
- The problem became more serious because several warning signs had been ignored.
- Unless the underlying cause is addressed, the same issue is likely to occur again.
- Grammar Focus: Passive voice for causes; cause-and-effect connectors; present perfect and past perfect passive; first conditional; likelihood expressions.
- Vocabulary Focus: consequence, underlying, decline, trigger, impact
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Describing Causes, Effects, and Consequences
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