Discourse markers & connectors — The Living Room of Irish Music
Grammar: Discourse markers and connectors — cohesion in analytical prose
Free ESL grammar exercise on discourse markers & connectors themed around the living room of irish music. Printable worksheet from classplan.ai.
What's on this worksheet
A Level 6 (proficiency) ESL grammar exercise on culture, practising discourse markers and connectors — cohesion in analytical prose. The worksheet has a short reading excerpt, a grammar reference and graded practice items.
From the reading
What makes the session structurally remarkable is its governance without government. A tune begins when one player simply starts it; yet within seconds the room has locked into a reel.
Grammar: Discourse Markers
- Additive: furthermore
- The session has no stage; furthermore, it has no printed setlist. — adds force to a preceding point
- Concessive: yet /
- Yet the session is neither perfectly democratic nor without hierarchy. — signals a surprising contrast
Sample items
- The session has no formal leader; ______, it produces extraordinary musical coherence.
- Tunes are learned by ear, not from a page; ______, a musician can join any session in Ireland.
- Senior players never announce their authority; ______, every beginner in the room feels it.
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