🔗 IELTS Linking Words: Coherence and Cohesion for Band 7 and Above

This free IELTS lesson is for Writing and Speaking candidates at band 5.5 to 7.0 who use plenty of linking words but still get a 6 for Coherence and Cohesion. It explains what examiners actually reward: clear paragraphing, logical progression, accurate referencing and cohesive devices that sound natural rather than mechanical. You get a complete IELTS linking words toolkit with register notes and overuse warnings, a guide to referencing with this, such, the former and the latter, and a method for old-to-new sentence flow. The same body paragraph is shown three ways, over-linked, under-linked and band 8 natural, with a line-by-line analysis, plus a Speaking Part 3 section on discourse markers that sound real versus memorised. Two interactive practice tasks, a sentence-ordering task, a rewrite task with model answer, a ten-question quiz and a checklist let you apply the IELTS cohesive devices band 7 standard to your own essays immediately.