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Connectors and Vocabulary

Presented by Valeria Vera

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 1. Addition and Sequence Connectors

2. Contrast Connectors

LIST OF 3. Give Options and Examples

CONTENTS 4. To explain and to conclude

5. Comparing and concesive connectors

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6. To clarify something
 FIRST/FIRSTLY
ADDITION: SECOND/SECONDLY
ADD INFORMATION NEXT/THEN
And AFTER/AFTERWARDS
Also / Too IN THE BEGINNING / END
As well as FINALLY/EVENTUALLY
Moreover / Furthermore LAST BUT NOT LEAST
In addition AT THE SAME TIME
In fact / As a matter of fact LIKEWISE
Anyway MEANWHILE
Besides NOWADAYS /CURRENTLY/THESE DAYS
By the way
A LONG TIME AGO / NOT LONG AGO
In other words
IN FORMER TIMES /FORMERLY
Such as / Like
LAST OF ALL / LASTLY
Or rather
No sooner... than
SEQUENCE - INSTRUCTIONS
TO CONTRAST AN IDEA
But
However
Nonetheless / Nevertheless SPEAKING SECTION:
Yet PICTURES
Even so On the top/first picture...
Still Whereas on the
Instead bottom/second one...
Whereas / While Both pictures... however...
On the contrary This picture.... on the other
On the other hand hand... the second picture
In other matters In other matters...
Nor
While
GIVE OPTIONS
Or
Either… or
Neither… nor SPEAKING SECTION:
Whether… or PICTURES
Or else Neither pictures... nor
Otherwise Not only... but as well
Not only… but… as well In general, in both pictures...
Apart from the woman...
For instance
FOR EXAMPLE The picture shows plants
FOR INSTANCE GIVE such as...
SUCH AS EXAMPLES
LIKE
APART FROM
IN GENERAL
TO EXPLAIN SOMETHING TO CONCLUDE
Because IN CONCLUSION
Because of TO SUM UP
For LONG STORY SHORT
Since ON THE WHOLE
As IN SHORT
As a result IN BRIEF
Due to / Owing to
THEREFORE / THUS
In order to
CONSEQUENTLY
By means of
HENCE
For lack of
Thanks to
This is the reason why
This is why
For this reason
 TO AS
CONCESIVE
COMPARE AS… AS
IDEAS NOT AS ALTHOUGH / THOUGH
SO… AS EVEN THOUGH
AS IF DESPITE / IN SPITE OF
AS THOUGH EVEN IF
THAN NOT EVEN IF
REGARDLESS OF

1. JUST AS THE TEACHER SAID, THE CLASS WAS CALLED OFF
2. HE WAS AS TALL AS HIS BROTHER, BUT NOT AS THIN.
3. NOT AS MANY PEOPLE ATTENDED THE EVENT AS WE HAD
EXPECTED
4. HE RAN SO FAST AS TO LEAVE EVERYONE ELSE BEHIND.
5. AS THOUGH SHE HAD SEEN A GHOST, HER EYES WIDENED.
6. HE IS TALLER THAN HIS BROTHER
1. ALTHOUGH IT WAS RAINING, THEY DECIDED TO GO FOR A HIKE.
2. EVEN THOUGH HE HAD STUDIED, HE DIDN'T PASS THE EXAM.
3. DESPITE THE TRAFFIC, THEY ARRIVED AT THE AIRPORT EARLY.
4. IN SPITE OF THE DIFFICULTIES, THEY DIDN’T GIVE UP.
5. EVEN IF IT SNOWS, I'LL STILL GO HUNTING TOMORROW.
6. NOT EVEN IF YOU BEGGED ME WOULD I LEND YOU MY CAR.
7. REGARDLESS OF THE COST, HE WAS DETERMINED TO PURSUE
HIS DREAMS
 OBVIOUSLY
UNDOUBTEDLY
SURELY
INDEED
AS A MATTER OF FACT
TO CLARIFY SOMETHING DEFINITELY
OBVIOUSLY
ABOVE ALL
APPARENTLY
POSSIBLY
SADLY
FORTUNATELY
UNFORTUNATELY
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