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  1. no critic students.
  2. And welcome to today's English lesson, where we're focusing on transitions,
  3. transitions, transitional phrases.
  4. So we need to focus today on improving our writing on plan our essays
  5. on. Of course, we always have the essential question in mind.
  6. How can people and animals relate to each other?
  7. So how can we improve? Our writing
  8. on important aspect of writing is cohesion.
  9. So, in other words, the way that ideas connect to each other,
  10. the flow of your sentences of your paragraphs and of
  11. your essay needs to be coherent as you right.
  12. You'll have a clear idea of how each idea fits into your organisational plan.
  13. You'll be following the appeal structure
  14. onder other structures for essay writing.
  15. It's very important that you really get to clear
  16. signal about how your ideas relate to each other.
  17. How do we do this by using appropriate words and phrases?
  18. So when we beginning you
  19. paragraph,
  20. it will indicate a changing subject.
  21. But there should be a smooth transition or a connection between the paragraph
  22. that proceeds and the one that follows.
  23. So, for example, you wouldn't write about school exam,
  24. then suddenly jumped to a paragraph about cows being there
  25. without there being some sort of link between the two.
  26. So we know that we use topic sentences
  27. to link our paragraphs. Of course, this is the peel structure.
  28. So where we have the point
  29. evidence,
  30. evaluate the evidence, explain evidence, explain the evidence on,
  31. then link to the paragraph that follows.
  32. But how can we link our ideas within the paragraph?
  33. Changing the way that sentence is open makes a
  34. piece of writing more interesting than engaging for the reader
  35. thing,
  36. varying
  37. the variety of sentence types in your writing.
  38. Also, make sure writing more interesting
  39. on do using transitions and transitional phrases helps to link
  40. your ideas together coherently.
  41. So what are transitions? Transitional words and phrases.
  42. So they're words that share relationships amongst ideas
  43. so we could be chronological follower, time, order, spatial.
  44. Make a comparison or a contrast.
  45. Explore cause and effect
  46. on the order of importance.
  47. We can provide examples using transitional words and phrases,
  48. so their groups of words that function in
  49. so groups of words that function in the same way a call transitional phrases
  50. on each transitional word or phrase has a specific
  51. use.
  52. So we have a guide here on. This will also be uploaded onto class pages
  53. on disordered in such a way that you can pick
  54. your purpose so you can look at the reference.
  55. Find appropriate transitional words and phrases for comparison. Contrast.
  56. Example cause and effect
  57. We are introduction
  58. on. Do you can choose your comfort level?
  59. So which words do you feel comfortable using? Because, of course, it's important to
  60. build our vocabulary.
  61. And rich are vocabulary but also feel comfortable
  62. and understand the words that were using too right
  63. Key idea
  64. is that you vary of a cabin. Eri
  65. don't rely on the same words and phrases throughout your writing,
  66. so let's take a look at some examples.
  67. So when you're making your point
  68. all right, you're ordering examples. If you want to add fact,
  69. we can use first, we can use firstly on moreover,
  70. so choose your comfort level here. Do you want to go with,
  71. unless
  72. complex word one that you understand, or do you want to enrich your vocabulary
  73. first could become firstly on, Moreover,
  74. also, besides further so you can see
  75. that we have a variety
  76. of
  77. words here to enrich
  78. your vocabulary.
  79. Transitional words help you to avoid using sentence fragments
  80. in complete sentences.
  81. So fragments, a partial sentences, phrases or single words that
  82. and could be used sparingly to emphasise a point are at interest to your reader.
  83. So link your paragraphs, link your sentences using transitional words and phrases
  84. to avoid in complete sentences. Incomplete ideas.
  85. You'll find a variety of worksheets and activities
  86. in today's class.
  87. Pages on these will help you to
  88. familiarise yourselves with transitional words and phrases
  89. and improve your writing.
  90. Thank you, great six.