This lesson builds on tasks 3 + 4 (p. 31) in your Workbooks and task 5 (p.41) in your Student books. To start with, comparing and contrasting is something that we do on a regular basis not only in an academic setting (i.e. school). However, to be able to that successfully we need to have the mastery of these little words (i.e. linking words - vezinici) that bring our ideas together and establish a relationship between them. We usually don't have a problem with linking words in our native language but struggle with them in our second/third language. We usually don't know were to position these linking words or which structures might follow them. Do they come at the beginning or the end of the sentence? Generally, we should: 1. AVOID beginning sentences with ANDs and BUTs - Instead, we can begin sentences with IN ADDITION (instead of AND) and HOWEVER (instead of BUT). We use commas (,) after IN ADDITION and HOWEVER. - Self-driving cars are expensive. However, they are proven to be safer THAN regular cars. 2. ON THE OTHER HAND - always comes at the beginning of the sentence and it's followed by a comma. - ON THE OTHER HAND, do we really want to leave life and death decisions that might arise in traffic to machines? 3. TOO - almost always comes at the END of the sentence 4. INSTEAD OF and RATHER THAN (both meaning : in place of, in lieu of) Instead of flying cars, nowadays we have self-driving ones. Rather than flying cars, nowadays we have self-driving ones. !!! Assignments (DEADLINE: 7.5.)!! : 1. What you have to do today is to solve task 4 (Workbook), p. 31. You have to complete the task with linking words from task 3. 2. After that, you're going to watch a short video about the things that the famous, cult movie BACK TO THE FUTURE (made back in 1985) predicted correctly and incorrectly about the year 2015 (in regard to tech). You are going to compare and contrast these two 2015s (one fictional and envisioned back in 1985 and the real one that you lived through). Write 6 sentences expressing similarities and differences between the two (compare and contrast) and USE LINKING words in every sentence. Submit your 6 sentences with linking words below at by 7.5. (DEADLINE)
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