🌉 Grammar B1-35: Connectors of contrast and cause

The thirty-fifth material of the Fleydo B1 grammar series, and the B1 upgrade of A2-16's and / but / so / because. It teaches both connector families through one machine question: not what does the word mean, but what does it take after it. The contrast family splits three ways — although and even though run on a clause with its own subject and verb, despite and in spite of swallow a noun or an -ing, and however refuses to share a sentence at all, opening a new one behind a full stop and wearing a comma. The cause family splits identically: because, since and as before a clause, because of and due to before a noun, so joining a result inside the sentence, so … that handing its result to a clause, and therefore as the formal sentence-starter. A four-step decision procedure is walked through three worked runs from a school-magazine assignment, six reveal cards make the learner build the sentence before checking, and the flagship compare puts although it rained against despite the rain, with the verdict that although the rain stalls one machine and despite it rained floods the other. Practice spans four sets of eight, seven, eight and eight explained items, a ten-connector sorter into takes-a-clause and takes-a-noun bins, six real learner repairs and four traps — despite of, although plus a bare noun, the comma-spliced however, and because of fed a clause. A 123-word street-food-market review carries ten tappable connectors, each explaining how it passed the machine question. Teacher notes give a 45-minute sequence, the three-garages board move, the fuel-check rescue and the Cambridge B1 Preliminary relevance.