Comparison and Contrast

 To day in the afternoon, I studied to continue the morning. the content was " Comparison and Contrast ". When the lecturer started to teach the new lesson, she shown us slides on the broad and then, she taught us how to read the texts about comparison and contrast. She  shown the conditional markers for reading and finding about this sort of comparison and contrast. e.g. To show comparison or similarities - both, same, similar, to resemble, common, like etc. , To show contrasts or differences e.g. to differ, to distinguish, to contrast, to oppose, yet, unlike etc.  I did exercises that she gave to read the text 1 and wrote similarities and differences about the text. After that I read the text 2 about " Hurricane Andrew and Hurricane Katrina ".

Differences                                                                                                                                                                       

                                                     Hurricane Andrew

                             Category 5

                             120 mph winds

                             Property damage was about $25 billion

                             26 people died

                             Nearly 17 feet storm surges

               

         

                                                   Hurricane Katrina

                             
                              Category 3

                              175 mph winds

                              Property damage was about $81 billion

                             1,800 people died

                             12 feet storm surges

I think I found difficult words and phrases. when I had a problem,

I will try to guess that words but I can not. I will solve the problems to open dictionary book, searching informations on the Internet and line dictionary on my smart phone etc. If I was unfamiliar some words or some phrases, I will note them into my notebook. I used skimming, and scanning strategies and find the references of subject in reading. Finally, I think this lesson is interesting and have benefit for student in reading. Everyone should use knowledge from this lesson for studying other lessons. And improving in reading skill. Lesson it is very benefit for me.