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    3B GRAMMAR discourse markers (2): adverbs and adverbial

    expressions
      Complete the extracts from the presentation with a discourse marker from the list.

    after all  all in all  anyway  as far as  at least  basically  by the way  in fact  obviously  that is to say

    A
    Hi, everyone. The historical figure I’ve chosen
    for my mini-presentation today is Guy Fawkes.
    I’m pretty sure the name will be familiar to
    you. 1 After all , we do have a well-known
    celebration named after him. I expect,
    however, that you might not know much
    about his story. 2   , I don’t
    have time to tell you everything about him D

    in just five minutes, but let’s start with some …So, over the next 18 months, Fawkes and
    information about his early life… 12 others worked out a careful plan.
    7
       , they plotted to blow up
    the Houses of Parliament, kill the King, and
    B replace him with a Catholic monarch.
    8
    …Despite his parents being members of   the method was concerned,
    the Church of England, 3  they decided to use gunpowder. Thirty-six
    Protestants, Fawkes’s mother remarried a barrels of it, to be precise. They placed
    Catholic after his father’s death. Several these in the cellar and planned to set them
    years later, Fawkes became influenced by his alight when the King opened parliament
    stepfather’s religious practices, and those of his on 5 November. The plan was bound to
    school friends, and converted to Catholicism, succeed, or 9  that’s what the
    even though it was 4  a crime conspirators thought!
    to be a Catholic at that time in England...

    E
    C …Fawkes was sentenced to death and
    …While fighting for the Spanish in 1604, executed. Now, every year on 5 November,
    Fawkes met Thomas Wintour, who encouraged people mark the anniversary of the failure of
    him to join a group of conspirators in a plot the Gunpowder Plot by setting off fireworks
    to assassinate the new Protestant king of and building large bonfires. And that brings
    England. 5   , interestingly, the me to the end of my presentation.
    king was both James VI and I. He was King of 10
       , I think it’s fair to say that
    Scotland as James VI and then later King of Guy Fawkes led a very eventful life, driven by
    England as James I. 6   , back to his cause. If you have any questions, I’ll do my
    what I was saying about Guy Fawkes… best to answer them.

    ACTIVATION
    Prepare a five-minute mini-presentation about a famous historical figure who interests you. If you
    need to find information, try searching on the internet in English. Use discourse markers in your
    mini-presentation.
    172
    English File fourth edition Teacher’s Guide C1.1  Photocopiable © Oxford University Press 2020

    4038478 EF4e Adv C1.1 TG Spain.indb 172 19/05/2020 07:56


    3B DISCOURSE MARKERS (2): ADVERBS AND ADVERBIAL EXPRESSIONS – ANWER KEY

    2 Obviously

    3 that is to say

    4 in fact

    5 By the way

    6 Anyway

    7 Basically

    8 As far as

    9 at least

    10 All in all

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