- Communicative Objective: Learn to communicate formally in academic, professional, and institutional contexts by using passive structures, impersonal expressions, and cautious claims.
- 5 Core Functional Sentences:
- It is widely believed that the policy will have a significant long-term impact.
- The organization is expected to publish its findings later this year.
- It has been suggested that additional research may be required before a final conclusion is reached.
- Several improvements are believed to have resulted from the changes introduced last year.
- Further consideration should be given to the potential consequences of the proposal.
- Grammar Focus: Impersonal passive structures; passive reporting verbs; perfect passive infinitives; modal passive; cautious academic language.
- Vocabulary Focus: formal, findings, consideration, objective, institutional
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