causal connectives

Temporal / Time Connectives - 

Used to instruct, recount and sequence

Examples:

after a while

afterwards

at once

at this moment

at this point

before that

finally

first (second third etc...)

here

in the end

lastly

later on

meanwhile

next

next time

now

on another occasion

previously

since

soon

straightaway

then

until then

when

whenever

while

Causal Connectives - 

Used to show cause or conditions

Examples:

accordingly

all the same

an effect of

an outcome of

an upshot of

as a consequence of

as a result of

because

caused by

consequently

despite this

even though

hence

however

in that case

moreover

nevertheless

otherwise

So

so as

stemmed from

still

then

therefore

though

under the circumstances

yet

Building Skills : Writing Explanatory

in this unit, you will be able to :

• understand the structure of explanatory text
• understand the language used in explanatory text
• perform writing wxplanatory text for presentation

in general explanatory genre deals with explaning something commonsense, scientific or technical, and interpreative. in the spite of the different purpose of the three text above, they have the same structures, which are the description stage and explanatory sequencess.

At the first paraggraph you are bound to describe the topic that you are going to explain. Pay attention to the different element white the describing genre as in the Unit three. At the first paragraph, you can to use the relatioanal verb for describing and continue the text to explain using causal or temporal connectives

this is the example of explanatory text