Do you know the following CULTURAL EXCHANGES? Which are they? What are they about? What do they have in common? What makes them different?

TASTES AND PREFERENCES

Content Objective:YW state your opinion about different cultural tastes and preferences

Language objectives:YWBAT identify bases of comparison YWBAT compare and contrast cultural tastes and preferencesYWBAT use different structures to show similarities and differences

Strategies Objectives:YWBAT use the problem solving strategy Applying Patterns to identify and apply grammar rules

Bases Of ComparisonFind TOPICS that have strong and interesting basis of comparison. That is, even if the two things you are comparing are very different, they should have something in common.

Examples:

Race Car Driver and The Mayor Of A City ----------- Fame

The Mayor Of A City and The President Of A Company-----------------------------Run Large Organizations

Obligations DutiesDangers of the positionDifferences between running a city and a company

Practice identifying Bases of Comparison

Exerc. 2 p. 139 (in the purple table)

Bases Of Comparison

Now, read the essay on pgs. 142-143 and answer the questions on pg. 143

1. Does the essay focus more on similarities or differences?

2. What are the bases of comparison that the author has chosen?

3. In the second paragraph, what do you notice about the order the author chose to write about the bases of comparison?

4. Find the words and expressions below in the essay. Which ones does the writer use to show similarities? Which ones show differences?

Both in contrast less on the other hand

Bases Of Comparison

Find/Apply Patterns

Apply a rule.Make a rule.

Recognize and apply letter/sound, grammar, discourse, or register rules. Chamot, A. U., Barnhardt, S. El – Dinary, P. B., & Robbins, J. (1999). The learning strategies handbook. White Plains, NY: Addison – Wesley Longman.

BOTH Show Similarities1. Before NounsBoth living situations are safe

2. As a pronounBoth are safe

3. With verbsThey are both safeThey both have advantagesThey have both given me an advantageThey can both help you

Compare the cultural exchanges by using BOTH

NEITHER Show Negative Similarities

1. With NORNeither living in a dorm nor sharing an apartment is ideal

2. Before a singular nounNeither situation is ideal

3. As a pronounNeither is ideal

Show Similarities

• Writing sentences with BOTH and NEITHER

Exerc. 1 pg. 146

Compare the cultural exchanges by using NEITHER

As _____ as Show Similarities

As clean asAs beautiful as

Living in a dorm is as convenient as sharing an apartment

Compare the cultural exchanges by using As ______ as

Showing Differences

Comparatives…er than cleaner thanMore ________ than more beautiful than

SuperlativesThe … est the cleanestThe most __________ the most beautiful

Check Examples pg. 147

Complete the sentences with Comparative or SuperlativeExerc. 3 pgs. 147-148

Showing Differences

Compare the cultural exchanges by using the COMPARATIVE, SUPERLATIVE AND EQUATIVE

TOEFL SESSIONLanguage Objective: YWBAT use different structures to show similarities and differences

Strategies Objectives:YWBAT use the problem solving strategy Applying Patterns to identify and apply grammar rules

Find/Apply Patterns

Apply a rule.Make a rule.

Recognize and apply letter/sound, grammar, discourse, or register rules. Chamot, A. U., Barnhardt, S. El – Dinary, P. B., & Robbins, J. (1999). The learning strategies handbook. White Plains, NY: Addison – Wesley Longman.

A NOUN refers to the person, the animal, thing or placeNOUNS must be made plural when they are countable and plural in meaning.

NOUNS are often modified by ADJECTIVES.

ADJECTIVES usually come before the noun they modify. ADJECTIVES cannot be made plural

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A bolt of lightning travels twenty thousands miles in one second. A B C D

Some trees grow to be over three hundred foot high A B C D

The paint bright yellow that she chose for her bedroom creates a A B C cheery atmosphere D

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Part A: 6. Adjectives and Nouns

1. 6

As _____ as Show Similarities

As clean asAs beautiful as

Living in a dorm is as convenient as sharing an apartment

Showing Differences

Comparatives…er than cleaner thanMore ________ than more beautiful than

SuperlativesThe … est the cleanestThe most __________ the most beautiful

Check Examples pg. 147

Although Tom’s paper was longer than Alice’s, Alice’s A B paper was more insightful that Tom’s C

Professor Clark’s chemistry class is __________ Professor Smith’sA) More than difficultB) To the difficultC) As difficult asD) The most difficult

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Part B & C: 24. Check Equative, Comparative and Superlative Degree

1. 24 A 2. 24 B3. 24 C

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Bring it tomorrow

Paired ExpressionsBoth… and

Laura enjoys both books and music Laura both enjoys and plays the celloBoth Angela and her mother are coming to the party

Either … orEither the teacher or the student is comingEither the teacher or students are coming

Paired ExpressionsNot only … but also

Not only he bought her a diamond ring, but he also bought her a gold watch

(inverted subject-verb word order)

Not only did he buy her a diamond ring, but he also bought her a gold watch

Paired ExpressionsNeither … nor

Neither he wrote nor he called

(inverted subject-verb word order)

Neither did he write nor did he call

Incorrect: Neither her mother or her father was hereCorrect: Neither her mother nor her father was here

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Part B & C: 29. Check Paired Expressions

1. 29 A 2. 29 B

Culminating Activity

• First, decide what you are presenting

Cultural Tastes and Preferences

Arts, Technology, Food, Architecture, Traditions, Trends, etc…

• Second, do a research and find images. You just need images in

your PowerPoint presentation (the images must be related to

what you are describing)

What are these Cultural Tastes and Preferences about?

Be detailed and

specific• Third, find the Bases of Comparison or Topics• Finally, write some similarities and differences