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What is the purpose of those bold words?
• More plastic bags as well as used
batteries were collected in 1998 than in
1995.
• In addition, there was a difference of
289 kilos of empty canisters collected-200
kilos in 1995 and 589 kilos in 1998.
• However, the number of plastic bags
gathered was nearly the same.


Slide 3

Answer the following Questions
• In what year is the number of Oxygen
bottles / used batteries higher than the
other?
• Is 100 the number of empty fuel canisters
used in 1998? Is it higher than the other in
1998?
• How about the number of plastic bags in
both two periods?


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SHERPAS cleaned up….
1995

Used
batteries
plastic bags
Empty
fuel canisters
Oxygen
bottles

1998


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Comparison and contrast
 Comparison: used
to point out the
similarities

 Comparison: used
to point out the
similarities

 Connectors:

 Connectors:


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Structure used for contrasting
•
•
•
•

More…than
Fewer…than
Less..than
…


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Modifier
s
Nearly
Almost
About
…..


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The special abbreviation
 %: percent

: point
Ex: 12.5


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1. Table 1: Deforestation in Southest Asia between 1900 - 2005

Country

Total Forest Cover
1990
2005
1900 - 2005
Cambodia 12.9
10.4
2.5(19.3%)
Indonesia 116.5

Laos

17.3

88.5

28(24%)

16.1

1.2(6.7%)


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According to table 1…
1. Which country has the highest /
lowest of total forest cover ( in
hectares)?
2. Are those percentage the same in
2005 and the period between 1990 –
2005?


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Table 2- total Fires and Acres Burned in the USA (1980 – 2000)

Year

Fires

Acres

2000

122,820

8,422,230

1990

122,763

5,452,870

1980

234,892

5,260,825


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According to table 2…
In what year is the total Fires highest /
lowest?
In what year is the Acres Burned
highest / lowest?
What do you think about the number in
both two columns ?


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Comparison’s connectors
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




Likewise
Similarity
Both…and
Neither…nor
Like
Also
Be a like
Be the same as


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Contrast’s connectors
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


Nevertheless
Unlike
Nonetheless
But
However
Different from
Be unlike