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Comparing & contrasting — similar to / like / unlike

Comparing school systems with the right pattern after each word

  • Foreign languages important
  • Literature and philosophy important

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

  1. 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)

Builds on