English · Exam Skills and Methodology
Sentence-level toolkit — connectors, sentence combining, question formation, reported-speech transformation
Combine, question and report using the exact words of the text
6 minutes
The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.
What the syllabus expects from you
- Combining two given sentences with a specified connector (unlike/because/although/so ...), making necessary changes
- Forming a WH-question whose answer is a given underlined phrase
- Transforming a direct sentence into reported speech and vice versa
The method
- For sentence-combining, identify the logical relation (contrast/cause/condition) before picking the connector's required structure
The common mistakes
- Combining two sentences without adjusting punctuation/subject repetition
- Forming a WH-question that doesn't match the underlined answer exactly
The kind of exercise that comes up at the BAC
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Sentence transformation block medium
2 sentence-combining items + 1-2 question-formation items from the text
From the lesson
Read two short facts: The weather was terrible and the match continued. These two ideas contrast with each other, so one connector can join them into a single sentence.
The vocabulary
- combine (يدمج)
- connector (أداة ربط)