Um, don’t you get, you know, annoyed by verbal clutter? Nothing sinks a public speaker quicker than an overdose of ums and uhs. Professional yakkers are expected to purge their speech of such lexical ...

This is an interactive PowerPoint lesson for B2 level students of English focusing on discourse markers that have different functions. This lesson lasts for approximately one hour or more and contains ...

MOST conversations in speaking or writing contexts are usually prefaced with discourse markers. Why is this fitting, and why are discourse markers inevitable in communication? This article discusses ...

Introduces 10 commonly used discourse markers with a variety of different functions. There’s a game ‘five doors’ incorporated into the lesson to encourage students. And an IELTS speaking part 2 ...