Detailed Instructions: In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.
Q: Sentence 1:He was also said to incorporate other studies and fields into his lectures. Sentence 2:Furthermore , for students he thought as particularly talented with great potential , he held extra smaller lectures outside of class time to discuss contemporary matters and literature .
A:
furthermore