Discourse markers & connectors — The Kids Were Right: Pokémon at 30
Grammar: Discourse markers and connectors for business narrative
Free ESL grammar exercise on discourse markers & connectors themed around the kids were right: pokémon at 30. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Business English ESL grammar exercise on business, practising discourse markers and connectors for business narrative. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
The western rollout was not without friction. However, what the coverage missed was visible in the footage running alongside it. Furthermore, the product's core mechanic required cooperation — community was not a marketing add-on.
Grammar
- Contrast: however
- Use however after a semicolon or at the start of a new sentence to signal unexpected contrast. Sales grew; however, schools banned the cards.
- Concession: far from
- Use far from + gerund to reframe a negative as a positive. Far from damaging the brand, the panic increased its visibility.
Sample items
- Sales were modest at launch; ______, word spread through Japanese schoolyards within weeks.
- ______ damaging the brand, the hostile coverage introduced Pokémon to millions of new families.
- The franchise retained its original audience; ______, it recruited younger consumers through mobile gaming.
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