CONNECTORS

SHOWING ADDITION Besides Adems Furthermore Adems Moreover Adems In addition Adems As well as Adems de Whats more Lo que es ms Not only...but also No solo sino tambin SHOWING RESULT Por lo tanto So En consecuencia Consequently Therefore Por esta razn Como resultado (de) As a result (of) Por esta / esa razn Fot this / that reason Due to the fact that Debido a que Porque Because Debido a Because of Since Ya que, puesto que SHOWING CONTRAST OR OPPOSITION But Pero On the contrary Por el contrario Yet Con todo, an as However Sin embargo Nevertheless No obstante On the other hand Por otra parte Whereas Mientras que While Mientras que In contrast Por el contrario Otherwise Por el contrario Although (+ subject + verb) Aunque, a pesar de Despite + Noun phrase Aunque, a pesar de In spite of + Noun phrase Aunque, a pesar de In conclusion To summarize To conclude To sum up In short SHOWING SUMMARY En resumen Para resumir Para resumir Para resumir Para resumir

When While Before After Since Until As Once Still Yet As soon as Whenever

SHOWING TIME Cuando Mientras Antes Despus Desde Hasta Cuando En cuanto Todava An, todava, ya Tan pronto como Cuando quiera que, siempre que

SHOWING CHRONOLOGICAL SEQUENCE Firstly, first, first of Primero, en primer lugar all To begin with Para comenzaar At the beginning Al principio Segundo Second, secondly Entonces Then Prximo Next Despus After Later Ms tarde Eventually Finalmente, al final In the end Finalmente, al final Finalmente, al final Finally Finalmente, al final At last

SHOWING EXAMPLES Por ejemplo For example Por ejemplo For instance Including Incluyendo Such as Tales como Like Como

SHOWING DIFFERENT ALTERNATIVES Or O Either... or O... o Neither... or Ni... ni Whether... or Tanto si ...como si no Otherwise En caso contrario, si no Or else Si no

SHOWING PURPOSE In order that + subject + modal verb Para So that In order to + verb So as to

Para

SHOWING SIMILARITY In the same way Del mismo modo Likewise Del mismo modo Similarly Del mismo modo

SHOWING Indeed In fact In other words

EMPHASIS De hecho De hecho En otras palabras

U US SE EF FU UL L E EX XP PR RE ES SS S II O ON N F FO OR R F FR RE EE E C CO OM MP PO OS S II T T II O ON N A AN ND D S SU UM MM MA AR RY Y

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
A problem that is often debated nowadays is that of (Un problema que se discute a menudo hoy da es el tema de) It is a well-known fact that.(Es un hecho conocido que) It is often said that/ It is often claimed that(Se suele decir que) At first sight it appears that (A primera vista parece que) We are dealing here with (Se trata aqu de) There is a wide variety of opinions about(Existe una gran divergencia de opinions sobre) The first thing to be said about the topic under consideration is that.(Lo primero que hay que decir sobre el tema que nos ocupa es que) I want to emphasize the fact that (Quiero hacer hincapi en el hecho de que)

STATING PERSONAL OPINION

As far as I know (Que yo sepa ) In my opinion / As I see it. (En mi opinin, a mi parecer...) It seems to me that (Me parece que) From my point of view. (Desde mi punto de vista) As far as I am concerned (En lo que a mi respecta) I have the impression that. (Tengo la impresin de que) I am in favour of (Soy partidario de) / I am against (Estoy en contra de) As I have already said (Como ya he dicho anteriormente) I am absolutely convinced that(Estoy absolutamente convencido de que) I feel very strongly that (Creo firmemente que)

CAUSE AND EFFECT RELATIONSHIPS

Consequently (Por consiguiente) Therefore (Por esto/ por lo tanto) Because of (A causa de) Thats the reason why (Esa es la razn por la cual) Due to the fact that (Debido a que) From this it can be deduced that (De aqu se reduce que) For this reason it seems logical that (Por esa razn parece lgico)

LISTING ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES

One advantage of/ The main advantage of(Una ventaja de / La principal ventaja de) One other advantage of / Another advantage of (Otra ventaja de) One disadvantage of / The main disadvantage of (Una desventaja de / La principal desventaja de) One other disadvantage of / Another disadvantage of (Otra desventaja de)

LINKAGES
On the contrary (Por el contrario) In general (Por lo general) On the one hand / On the other hand (Por una parte / Por otra parte) In this way (De este modo) Furthermore (Adems/ lo que es ms) In any case (En cualquier caso) To some extent (Hasta cierto punto) Thats to say (Es decir) Likewise (De igual manera/ asimismo) In this respect/ In regard to this (A este respecto) To put it another way ( Dicho de otro modo)

REMARKS IN CONCLUSION
We can conclude that (Podemos concluir que) To sum up/ in short (En resumen/ en una palabra) Let us observe finally (Observemos finalmente que) The inescapable conclusion which emerges from what I have said is that. (La conclusion inevitable que se deduce de todo lo dicho es que.) The most convincing conclusion we can come to is that (La conclusin ms convincente a que se puede llegar es decir que)