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    General Conversation Core: Brief Recap On The Speaking Part

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    This document provides guidance on comparing and contrasting in speaking assessments. It discusses describing objects and places, comparing and contrasting people and events, giving directions and instructions, and role plays. It also provides links to practice comparing and contrasting using comparative and superlative adjectives, completing example sentences about similarities and differences, and examples of language for comparing and contrasting places and situations. Learners are prompted to find examples of comparative structures, structures showing similarities, and structures for contrasting from video examples. They are also asked to compare and contrast two countries based on selected criteria.

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    General Conversation Core: Brief Recap On The Speaking Part

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    This document provides guidance on comparing and contrasting in speaking assessments. It discusses describing objects and places, comparing and contrasting people and events, giving directions and instructions, and role plays. It also provides links to practice comparing and contrasting using comparative and superlative adjectives, completing example sentences about similarities and differences, and examples of language for comparing and contrasting places and situations. Learners are prompted to find examples of comparative structures, structures showing similarities, and structures for contrasting from video examples. They are also asked to compare and contrast two countries based on selected criteria.

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    Compare and Contrast in English

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    COMPARE_AND_CONTRAST

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    This document provides guidance on comparing and contrasting in speaking assessments. It discusses describing objects and places, comparing and contrasting people and events, giving directions and instructions, and role plays. It also provides links to practice comparing and contrasting using comparative and superlative adjectives, completing example sentences about similarities and differences, and examples of language for comparing and contrasting places and situations. Learners are prompted to find examples of comparative structures, structures showing similarities, and structures for contrasting from video examples. They are also asked to compare and contrast two countries based on selected criteria.

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    General Conversation Core: Brief Recap On The Speaking Part

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    This document provides guidance on comparing and contrasting in speaking assessments. It discusses describing objects and places, comparing and contrasting people and events, giving directions and instructions, and role plays. It also provides links to practice comparing and contrasting using comparative and superlative adjectives, completing example sentences about similarities and differences, and examples of language for comparing and contrasting places and situations. Learners are prompted to find examples of comparative structures, structures showing similarities, and structures for contrasting from video examples. They are also asked to compare and contrast two countries based on selected criteria.

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    BRIEF RECAP ON THE SPEAKING PART

     GENERAL CONVERSATION
     Core
    During this stage of the oral interview, some of the following sub-stages can be
    included:
     Description – The candidate is asked to describe people, objects, places, etc.
     Comparison and contrast – The candidate is asked to compare and contrast
    people, places, events, facts, etc.
     Narration – The candidate is asked to narrate past, present or future events or
    personal experiences.
     Giving directions and instructions – The candidate is asked to give direction for
    reaching a place or instructions how something should be done or achieved.
     Role play – A dialog with one of the examiners. The candidate is asked to choose
    a situation card and is expected to adopt a role in a routine situation.

    Comparison and contrast

     how to use the comparative and superlative degrees of adjectives:


    https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/comparison-
    adjectives-bigger-biggest-more-interesting

    Your turn! After studying the theory, you can practice here:
     https://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar/adjectives-
    adverbs/adjectives/exercises
     https://elt.oup.com/student/solutions/preint/grammar/grammar_04_012e?c
     https://agendaweb.org/grammar/comparative-superlative-exercises.html
     how to compare and contrast:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyYzXlTNt4E

    Your turn! Complete the sentences:


    When you compare things/people, you say what’s the ________about them. When you
    contrast, you say what’s ________________________________________ about them.
    A Venn diagram is ______________________________________________________.
    We can compare and contrast: _____________________________________________.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAHH05k0984

    Your turn! Complete the sentences with some useful language for
    comparing and contrasting:
    If you can use _______ structures well, try to take one step further and be more precise in
    your descriptions with the use of __________. For example, when answering the
    question: What’s your hometown like, say: Well, my town is _________
    __________than where I’m living at the moment. Here’s another example: Things are
    _______ ________ _______ in London than where I’m from. Another example: The
    roads in my country are not ______ ____ ______ _____ here. There are lots of adverbs
    you can use to give precision to your comparisons. If there are small differences use
    adverbs like: ___________________________________________________; if the
    differences are larger, then use words like:
    _____________________________________. Among the expressions you can use to
    explain that differences are very small or even non-existent there are: _______,
    ________, ________.
    The useful expressions to use if the differences are quite large are: ______, _________,
    _________.
    Language also used to compare and contrast also include phrases like: _______,
    _____________.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbtKzaLRLJg

    Your turn! Take out examples of:


    - comparative structures: ________________________________________________
    - structures for showing similarities: _______________________________________
    - structures for contrasting: ______________________________________________

    Your turn! Go to Fact Monster page


    https://www.factmonster.com/countries.
    Choose two countries and compare and contrast them in accordance to 4-5 criteria of
    your choice (size, population, economy, etc.)
    Talk (to your classmates) about your findings.

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