Discourse Markers & Clefts — The World's Most Surprising Festivals
Grammar: Discourse markers and cohesion devices
Free ESL grammar exercise on discourse markers & clefts themed around the world's most surprising festivals. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 5 (advanced) ESL grammar exercise on culture, practising discourse markers and cohesion devices. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
Not all unusual festivals involve getting dirty. What is particularly striking is how the Boryeong festival transformed a marketing idea into a genuine cultural phenomenon.
Grammar: Discourse Markers
- What-cleft
- What makes La Tomatina extraordinary is its sheer scale. — foregrounds the subject of the sentence
- It-cleft
- It is the mud's mineral content that attracts tourists. — foregrounds the complement
Sample items
- ______ makes Lopburi's festival unusual is the fact that the guests of honour are macaques.
- It ______ the mineral-rich mud... first attracted the cosmetics brand to Boryeong.
- La Tomatina draws enormous crowds; ______, the host town has fewer than 10,000 residents.
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