In the last 3 lessons, you learned about claim, evidence and reasoning. As you introduce these sections, you’ll need to know transition words and phrase, or signposts to help your examiner understand what you’re talking about.
Read the following and find the transition words or phrases.
How do you make the world a better place through your company?
That’s an interesting question. Corporate social responsibility should be the cornerstone of every company. It forces companies to not only work towards their own benefit, but also towards the benefit of the community and world around them. For example, my company cuts down on paper by making everything online and digitized. In addition, we fund the planting of trees every year in our community. By doing so, not only have we saved tons of paper use, but we’ve also participated in saving the environment, and making the community a nicer place to live. Therefore, companies can participate in making the world a better place by contributing in different ways.
That’s an interesting question. Corporate social responsibility should be the cornerstone of every company. It forces companies to not only work towards their own benefits, but also towards the benefit of the community and world around them. For example, my company cuts down on paper by making everything online and digitized. In addition, we fund the planting of trees every year in our community. By doing so, not only have we saved tons of paper use, but we’ve also participated in saving the environment with our community, and making the community a nicer place to live. In this way, companies can participate in making the world a better place by contributing in different ways.
Most Japanese students will have heard the not only...but also phrase, because it gets drilled into them. However, they may not know how to use it. Point it out here. If your student is higher level, you can also point out the not only + have/has + subject... but subject + have/has + also grammar as well.
Fill out the following table. How many transition words and phrases do you know?
| Contrast | Addition | Opinion | Example | Persuasion |
Comparison |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Look at the table below. Make sentences with each word.
| Contrast |
Addition |
Opinion |
Example |
Persuasion | Comparison |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| However | Also | I believe | For example | Clearly | Likewise |
| Nevertheless | In addition | As far as I know | In my experience, | Evidently, | Similarly |
| Alternatively |
Furthermore |
It seems likely that... | For instance, |
For this reason, |
In comparison |
| Whereas |
Moreover |
I’d say that | As revealed by,... | Undoubtedly, | Despite this, |
| Even so | Additionally | Personally, | Such as... | Of course, | In contrast, |
Start with comparing the student’s original table with the table here. Due to time constraints, you can pick two or three from the above list to help your student learn by making sentences.
- Now go back to the initial question and put it all together.
How do you make the world a better place through your company?
- Answer the following questions by focusing on your transition words and phrases.
- What would a child learn from visiting the zoo?
- What’s the importance of diversity?
- Will technology make the world a better or worse place?
- Is it easier for you to accept praise or criticism?