TOEFL iBT

Cohesive Writing & speaking

Creating cohesion and connecting ideas using
 Repeated and rephrased key words (ideas)

Iam happy you have the opportunity to go there. It pleases me that you have
been given such a chance.

 Reference (using pronouns and determiners (he- she –me- this – that) to refer
back to previous ideas and persons.

A student worked very hard on a project. He did all the work on it by himself
and his professor was very pleased with this work.

 Transition and linking words

Therefore finally
As a result in the end
Thus in conclusion
Consequently

For example in fact

For instance indeed

Cohesion: - Ideas flow or attach together smoothly

 In addition fortunately
Moreover surprisingly
Furthermore interestingly

However as for---------------,
On the other hand regarding------------,

More importantly definitely Surprisingly

Certainly perfectly

 Please don’t forget to

Check
 Grammar
 Spelling
 Punctuation
 cohesion

Make your written and spoken English as clear and cohesive as possible

Cohesion: - Ideas flow or attach together smoothly