WORDS AND PHRASES

 A myriad of (a lot of)

 Assert (say)
 Dreadful/ egregious (bad)
 Engender (cause)
 Controversial/Contended/At issue
 At risk/At stake
 Employ (use)
 Salient (important)/Valued/Significant/Relevant
 Reason (think)/Hold that
 Advantageous
 Favorable
 Beneficial
 Urge someone to do sth
 Persuade someone to do sth
 Galvanize (someone into something)
 Substantiate (prove)
 Elucidate (explain)
 Maintain
 Tenuous (weak/fragile)
 Anomaly
 Facet (side)
 Aspect
 Factor
 Key point
 It is argued that…
 It is a common belief that…
 Heated debates
 Intense debates
 Impassioned
 Disagreement
 Quarrel (between friends or family members)
 Controversial issue
 It is widely accepted that…
 Provoke
 Result in
 Chiefly
 Inhabitants/members of a modern society
 Pointless
 Give rights to the entire society
 Gain rights for the entire society
 As regards/Regarding/In-with regard to
 Recurrent theme
 Lead taunts against someone
 People/community/population
 Controversial issue
 Hot button issue
 In the spotlight
 Over the last decades
  Vigorous debates
 A handful of fields
 Contrasting viewpoints
 The aim of this piece of writing is to focus on…
 Play an important role
 When it comes to
 Be obliged to
 To be imperative
 Solid opposition to…
 Be of vital importance
 Tackle
 Hazardous (dangerous/risky)
 Non-negotiable factors
 Element
 Component
 Point
 Emerge from
 Flashpoint
 Reflect
 Fractured world
 Indicative
 Endure
 Endless outrage
 Across social media…
 Modern conventions
 Tendentious
 At the forefront of people’s minds
 To take realistic position
 Irrelevance
 The tip of the iceberg
 Paradigms
 Of most significance
 Provide perspective
 Satirize (verb)
 Trenchant criticism or comment (clear)
 Undue/excessive
 Trivialize/Minimize/Underestimate
 Shifting tides of opinion
 Well-intentioned people
 Combative arena of social media

INTRODUCTION
 In view of
 In light of
 Considering

ADDING INFORMATION
 Moreover
 Furthermore
  In addition
 Another key point
 Likewise
 Similarly
 In other words
 To put it another way
 To put it more simply
 Besides

COMPARING AND CONTRASTING INFORMATION

 Conversely
 However
 On the contrary
 On the other hand
 Nonetheless
 Nevertheless

GIVING EXAMPLES
 For instance
 For example
 To give an illustration

CONCLUSION
 In conclusion
 On the whole
 All things considered

On the one hand, …

Furthermore, …

On the other hand, …

On the whole, the only conclusion to be drawn is that…

TOPICS
 Extremism
 Social mobility
 Racism
 Words take on meaning within a context
  Stereotypes
 Abortion
 Right and left
 Feminism
 Discrimination
 Genre
 New identities
 Social media
 Homosexuality
 https://readingproject.neocities.org/BookReviews/
IdentityCrisis_BenElton.html#:~:text=The%20plot%2C%20itself%2C%20follows
%20a,in%20a%20park%20at%20night.

SOCIAL MOBILITY (VOCABULARY)

 Cognitive development
 Disadvantaged homes
 Be vulnerable to
 Economic advancement
 Distribution of wealth and income
 Equilibrium
 Dynamism
 Dynamic

RACISM (VOCABULARY)
 https://www.speakconfidentenglish.com/racism-english-resources-
vocabulary/

ABORTION (VOCABULARY)
 Having legislation
 Ending a pregnancy illegally
 Assign/allocate money to cover medical expenses
 Birth control (método anticonceptivo)
 Conception
 Beginning of life
 Induce abortion
 Pro-choice arguments
 Condone
 Unwanted child
 Permanent trauma
 Dignity
 Interference
 Death rates
 Unsafe and illegal abortion
 Maternal deaths
 Budget

FEMINISM (VOCABULARY)
 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/03/16/feminism-glossary-
lexicon-language/99120600/
 HOMOSEXUALITY
 https://getintoenglish.com/vocabulary-gay-lgbt-issues/

DISCRIMINATION
 https://coggle.it/diagram/WHkvh0mn-EQLmACV/t/discrimination-
vocabulary

PREPOSITIONAL VERB (verb+preposition) needs a complement

 Depend on
 Concentrate on

PHRASAL VERB (verb+adverbial particle)

 Intransitive: blow up (explode); get ahead (make progress); back down
(retreat from a position in an argument); come about (happen); fall off
(decrease); keep on (continue); work out (be successful)
 Transitive: account for (explain or cause); link up (join); mix up (confuse)

PHRASAL PREPOSITIONAL VERBS (verb+adverbial particle+preposition)

 Come up with (produce)
 Put up with (tolerate)
 Look forward to
 Stand up for
 Get away with