English · Education and Career Choices
Comparing & contrasting — similar to / like / unlike
Comparing school systems with the right pattern after each word
6 minutes
The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.
What the syllabus expects from you
- Comparing/contrasting education systems with similar to/like/unlike
The method
- similar to/like + noun phrase; unlike + noun phrase — never a full clause directly after 'unlike'
The common mistakes
- unlike + full clause instead of unlike + noun phrase
From the lesson
A student describes a new school he is visiting. Read how he compares it to his old one.
The vocabulary
- similar to (مشابه لـ)
- unlike (خلافا لـ)
What is not on the syllabus
- Comparative adjectives and quantifiers (previous concepts)