Discursive text: Describing phenomena

1. Linking ideas in a text.

Choose the best options to complete this summary of a text about different theories on dreaming.

2. Text structure.

How much can you remember of the text in exercise 1? Put these paragraph openings in the correct order.

3. Paragraph openings.

The paragraph openings in exercise 2 represent different stages of the text. Can you match the stages with paragraph openings?

4. Ordering ideas in a text.

Look at the sentences below about yawning. Put them in a logical order so that the text follows this pattern:

• introduction and posing a question
• one theory
• alternative view
• writer's viewpoint/opinion

5. Linking ideas in a text.

Now use the expressions below to link the information in the last exercise, making a short text titled "Am I boring you?" Click and drag the words.