English for Specific Purposes

Electronic Engineering 89

SPEAKING: Presenting DSP Promises and Challenges

18. Hold a conference on the topic “DSP promises and challenges”. Choose a chairperson who will be in charge of keeping the discussion going. Single out the topic areas for the session(s) and prepare relevant presentations. In the course of the conference the issues urgent for DSP processing development are to be discussed. Refer to the experience of DSP research, application and challenge study in Russia and abroad.

The following discourse markers may help you:

Type of relationship	Sentence connectors

Adding something	Moreover; In addition; Additionally; Further; Further
	to this; Also; Besides; What is more.
Making a contrast between two separate	However; On the other hand; In contrast; Yet.
things, people, ideas, etc.

Making an unexpected contrast	Although; Even though; Despite the fact that; In
(concession)	spite of the fact that; Regardless of the fact that.
Saying why something is the case	Because; Since; As; Insofar as.

Saying what the result of something is	Therefore; Consequently; In consequence; As a
	result; Accordingly; Hence; Thus; For this reason;
	Because of this.
Expressing a condition	If; In the event of; As long as...; So long as...;
	Provided that...; Assuming that...; Given that....
Making what you say stronger	On the contrary; As a matter of fact; In fact; Indeed.