25 Essential Transition Templates for TEF & TCF Writing

When TEF and TCF Canada examiners grade your Expression Écrite (Writing), they look at a specific scoring criterion called "Cohésion et cohérence" (Cohesion and coherence).

You can have flawless spelling and rich vocabulary, but if you write isolated sentences separated by simple periods or repeat "et", "mais", and "parce que", you will remain stuck at Level B2 (CLB 6/7).

To break into CLB 8, 9, or 10, you must weave your ideas together using advanced logical connectors (les mots de liaison). Here are 25 ready-to-use transition templates organized by rhetorical purpose.