Cause & Effect Connectors — HARIBO: Sweet Lessons from a Century of Candy
Grammar: discourse markers and connectors for cause and effect
Free ESL grammar exercise on cause & effect connectors themed around haribo: sweet lessons from a century of candy. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Business English ESL grammar exercise on business, practising discourse markers and connectors for cause and effect. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
The Kentucky saga exposed a deeper structural problem: HARIBO had grown enormously as a product but had not grown as an organisation. Consequently, its management systems were simply not built for the scale it now demanded.
Grammar
- Due to + noun phrase
- Used before a noun phrase to explain a cause. The delay occurred due to rising costs. Never use before a full clause.
- Consequently / As a
- Placed at the start of the second clause to signal an effect. Costs rose; consequently, the project stalled. Note the semicolon before.
Sample items
- The factory opened eleven years late ______ spiralling costs and regulatory complexity.
- HARIBO's management systems were not built for global scale; ______, the logistics failed.
- ______ the documentary, HARIBO audited its entire supplier network.
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