tailieunhanh - Reading comprehension success 3rd edition_4

Tham khảo tài liệu 'reading comprehension success 3rd edition_4', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES COMPARE AND CONTRAST Being a parent is a lot like being a gardener. Parents must bathe clothe and feed their children. Parents must also create and maintain guidelines for acceptable behavior for children. Also parents must see to it that their children get a proper education. Gardeners nurture the plants in their gardens. They pull weeds and prune them to encourage them to grow. They feed them and apply insecticides. They watch them flower and then witness their demise. You ll notice that this passage seems to focus on differences between gardeners and parents rather than the similarities. But is this really a fair contrast Look at the aspects of A the gardener that are described here. Do they have any relationship to the aspects of B the parent that are described No. And a compare and contrast passage can t be successful unless the aspects of A and B are discussed comparably. These two paragraphs don t really seem to have a point there s no basis for comparison between gardeners and parents. Practice Suppose you were going to write a paragraph that compares and contrasts readers and detectives. The following are five aspects of being a reader and five aspects of being a detective listed. Only three items in each list are comparable. Find those three items in each list and pair them with their matching item. Remember these items may be either similarities or differences. What s important is that they are comparable aspects. A reader 1. Looks for clues to meaning. 2. Has many different types of books to read. 3. Can choose what book to read. 4. Builds vocabulary by reading. 5. Becomes a better reader with each book. A detective 1. Has a dangerous job. 2. Gets better at solving crimes with each case. 3. Requires lots of training. 4. Doesn t get to choose which cases to work on. 5. Looks for clues to solve the crime. Did you find the aspects that are comparable Did you match reader 1 with detective 5 similarity Reader 3 with detective 4 .