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ELA Drills, Intermediate: Comparing and Contrasting. What do Matt and Atticus have in common?
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- 00:03
Here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by video games because being good at
- 00:08
FIFA is totally the same thing as being the MVP of your soccer team right take a [Man holding a controller next to a soccer player]
- 00:13
look at the following couple of paragraphs
- 00:17
[mumbling]
- 00:28
Here's the question what do Matt and Atticus have in common and here are your potential
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- 00:32
answers...
- 00:36
well, we'll give you a hint we're looking for stuff that Matt and Atticus have in [Matt and Atticus in a venn diagram]
- 00:40
common so we're looking for something that's true about both of them if the
- 00:43
answer choice just applies to one of them is no good usually we're all for
- 00:47
promoting individuality with today not allowed so could it be A they play Xbox
- 00:52
well based on the reading Atticus definitely plays Xbox but we can also [Atticus playing Xbox]
- 00:57
see that Matt's more of a PlayStation guy right there so that won't work what
- 01:00
about B they're always at the video game store well the reading tells us that [Matt and Atticus at a game store]
- 01:05
Matt goes to the video game store a lot but we don't see anything about whether
- 01:08
Atticus goes there or not if we had to guess based on his name we'd say he
- 01:12
spends more time arguing for civil rights in a courtroom but that's a [Atticus working in a courtroom]
- 01:16
separate issue so B can't be it how about D they'll be famous someday
- 01:20
well sure Matt and Atticus would probably love for that to be the case but based
- 01:23
on the text we don't know anything for sure [FIFA16 loading screen]
- 01:25
we're rooting fo em, but wishful thinking isn't enough for this question and that
- 01:29
leaves us with C they love playing video games, duh..Matt might like PlayStation
- 01:33
and Atticus might prefer Xbox but those are both video game systems so at long
- 01:38
last we have our answer now we just have to wait a dozen or so years to find out
- 01:42
how famous these guys are going to grow up to be might as well start up a game [Girl playing virtual reality beside a soccer player]
- 01:45
of FIFA while we're waiting..
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