Discourse Markers — Presenting to the Sharpest Person in the Room
Grammar: Discourse markers and connectors for structured professional speech
Free ESL grammar exercise on discourse markers themed around presenting to the sharpest person in the room. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Business English ESL grammar exercise on business, practising discourse markers and connectors for structured professional speech. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
His first strategy was to write the presentation as if Bezos already knew everything. That meant stripping out all background explanation. Then came the counterintuitive move: delete roughly every third paragraph.
Grammar
- Opening a structure
- To begin with, let me outline the problem. — signals the first point clearly
- Shifting topics
- Moving on to costs, the figures are more complex. — clean pivot between sections
Sample items
- ______ with, let me explain why I chose this topic.
- The plan was solid. ______ that, it missed one critical variable.
- ______ on to the financial projections, the figures are more encouraging.
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