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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Markers like in other words<\/em>, that is<\/em>, put simply<\/em> and to put it another way<\/em> restate an idea more clearly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jargon Decoder<\/a> (sentence match)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reformulating and Summarising Markers<\/a> (cloze text)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Markers like although<\/em>, even though<\/em> and despite<\/em> show that something is surprising or unexpected. Although<\/em> and even though<\/em> are followed by a subject and verb; despite<\/em> is followed by a noun or an -ing form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although, Even Though or Despite?<\/a> (multiple choice)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-431","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":791,"href":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/431\/revisions\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnhip.com\/hub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Contrasting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n