Discourse Markers

Discourse markers are the words and phrases that guide a listener or reader through what you’re saying. They show how ideas connect: adding a point, contrasting, giving a result, rephrasing, or summing up. The activities below practise them by function.

Reformulating

Markers like in other words, that is, put simply and to put it another way restate an idea more clearly.

Jargon Decoder (sentence match)

Reformulating and Summarising Markers (cloze text)