Zahiriddin muhammad bobur nomidagi andijon davlat universiteti ingliz tili grammatikasi kafedrasi

80 minutes

Aim: Material: Aids:

to let students practice drafting Evans, V. (1998). Successful Writing. Upper Intermediate. Express Publishing Charts, laptop with speakers, audio recordings, handouts, white board

WRITING AN ESSAY USING COMPARISON/CONTRAST
Comparison/contrast, as a method for developing ideas, involves the careful examination of similarities and differences between people, objects, or ideas to arrive at a judgment or conclusion.
CHOOSING A TOPIC AND CONTROLLING IDEA FOR THE THESIS STATEMENT
Here is a list of possible topics for an essay in which comparison/contrast is the main method of development.
1. High school classes and college classes
2. Studying with a friend and studying alone
3. Male and female stereotypes
4. Your best friend in childhood and your best friend now
5. Using public transportation and driving your own car
6. Our current president and any previous chief executive
7. Two items you have compared when shopping
8. Two apartments or houses where you have lived
9. Cooking dinner at home and eating out
10. Watching television and reading a book
Using the above list of topics or ideas of your own, jot down a few two-part topics that appeal to you.
From your list of two-part topics, which one will give you the best opportunity for writing? Which one is most likely to interest your readers? For which topic do you have the most fi rst-hand experience?
Selected topic:
Your next step is to decide what your controlling idea should be. What is your main purpose in comparing or contrasting these two topics? Do you want to show that although people think the two topics are similar, they actually differ in important ways? Do you want to show that one topic is better in some ways than the other? Do you want to analyze how something has changed over the years (a “then and now” essay)?