Band 5+: Look at in the sample data analysis 'The Favourite Subjects of Year Two Students of Ummar High School'. Can you identify the discourse markers used? Circle them. What are their functions?

The graph shows the students of Class Y’s preferred way to learn something. In

general, most of the female and male students learned the best by watching.

First and foremost, it can be seen that 50% of the male students and 40% of the female students liked to learn by watching. The same percentage of female students preferred to learn by doing a task. However, only 20% of the male students liked this style of learning. Furthermore, 30% of the male students learned the best by listening, On the contrary, only 20% of the opposite gender liked to learn this way.

To sum up, the smallest percentage of the male students learned something well by doing it, while for the female students it was by listening to it.