- Communicative Objective: Learn to use sophisticated idiomatic, pragmatic, and figurative language flexibly while recognizing connotation, interpersonal effect, and the limits of appropriateness across contexts.
- 5 Core Functional Sentences:
- We may be splitting hairs at this point, but the distinction could have significant consequences later.
- I would take that prediction with a grain of salt until we have independent evidence to support it.
- The proposal looks persuasive on paper, but the real test will be whether it holds up under sustained pressure.
- We should avoid moving the goalposts simply because the original criteria no longer produce the result we expected.
- There is no point in papering over the cracks if the underlying problem is likely to reappear in a more serious form.
- Grammar Focus: Idiomatic clause patterns, figurative verb phrases, modal pragmatics, concessive coordination, complex conditionals, and fixed expressions integrated into syntactically advanced discourse.
- Vocabulary Focus: nuance, connotation, idiomatic, pragmatic, figurative
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