In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
Praise be to Allah, Lord of the Worlds, The Beneficent, the Merciful.

Good morning to everyone. When we are describing the different stages or steps of a process, we have to put the stages or steps together in different ways so that the essay should be more interesting and rich in content.

Now we are going to look at what phrases and linking words could be used to describe different stages of a process.

1. 
   When describing the initial (beginning) steps or stages of a process we use the following phrases and linking devices:
   

Firstly*,
First of all*,
In the first place*,
To start with*,
To begin with*,
The first step is that
Initially*,
The process begins/starts with …
At first*,
At the beginning of the process
If we look at the initial stage of the process,

e.g. The process of cooking our traditional Uzbek meal, plov, starts with preparing all the necessary ingredients of it. For it we need ….

……………………………………………………………………………………….
* After these phrases and linking devices, don’t forget to put a comma.

2. 
   When listing the next stages of a process, use the following:
   

Then,
Subsequently,
After that,
At this point
The next step is that
Following this
The following step is that
And then,
After which,
Another major step of the process is
Additional stage of the process is