A note on this drill: these five phrases are scaffolding for the underlying move — stating your position, explaining it, giving evidence, conceding a specific point, then pivoting back to your own position to conclude — not a paragraph to memorize and reproduce word-for-word on test day. Practice with this exact wording until the structure feels automatic, then let your own language take over. Formulaic, templated phrasing can work against you in TOEFL's automated scoring.
Some professors take attendance and dock the final grade for missed classes, arguing it keeps students engaged, while other students think adults should be trusted to manage their own attendance without being penalized. Should professors be allowed to grade students down for missing class?
"I think attendance shouldn't be graded, because I know the material well enough to skip sometimes and still do better on exams than students who never miss a class."
Use all five sentence starters below, in order, to build one connected response.