Exercise: Fill in the blanks with the most suitable transitions from the list below (in blue). Some transition words will be used more than once and some will not be used at all.

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When, At the beginning, Eventually, However, First, Then, At the end, And, For instance

El Norte is an excellent and disturbing film about two immigrants to the United States. 1- __________ of the film, we meet a family in Guatemala mother, father, son and daughter. 2- __________the father is killed and the mother is taken to the prison, the son and the daughter decide to go to El Norte the United States- by way of Mexico. At 3- __________, they have trouble finding someone to take them across the Mexican border, but 4- __________, they find a way across and end up in Los Angeles. 5-__________, life in the U.S. is not as easy as they thought it would be. 6- __________, they have to find housing, 7- __________, they need to learn English 8- __________get jobs. 9- __________, they succeed in accomplishing these three goals and life looks pretty good for them. Unfortunately, 10- __________of the film, tragedy strikes and we are left wondering if El Norte really is the land of opportunity after all.