Задание
Words used to compare
… is twice as … as ….
… is much more … than …
… is less … than ...
… is the least … of all the ...
… the difference between … is … %.
… % of the respondents … , while only … % of the questioned ...
In comparison with …, …
In contrast, ...
1. Fill in the gaps with the suitable words from the box
as much as popular most popular much higher slightly lower
The proportion of the surveyed who know most of all about tigers is than the proportion of those who know some details about pandas (36% and 12% respectively).
Studying the table thoroughly one can see that watching films about endangered animals is almost twice as reading brochures about them.
Meanwhile, the percentage of the respondents who cite watching documentary films about animal protection as their favourite pastime is than the percentage of the respondents who prefer reading books about rare animals (14% and 16% respectively).
This is the animal among the teenagers surveyed.
Teenagers claim to know about mammals as about reptiles.
2. Click on the cards and compare the facts from the table on what extinct animals teenagers know. Type your own sentences
The table
Imagine that you are doing a project on what extinct animals teenagers know. You have found some data on the subject — the results of the opinion polls (see the table below).
Extinct animals
Number of teenagers (%)
Dodo
31
Woolly mammoth
27
Tasmanian tiger
19
Japanese sea lion
13
Zanzibar leopard
10
Extinct animals
Number of teenagers (%)
Dodo
31
Woolly mammoth
27
The percentage of the teenagers surveyed who know about the dodo is slightly higher than the proportion of those who know about the woolly mammoth (31% and 27% respectively).
Sentence 1
Extinct animals
Number of teenagers (%)
Tasmanian tiger
19
Zanzibar leopard
10
Such an extinct animal as the Tasmanian tiger is almost twice as well-known among teenagers as the Zanzibar leopard.
Sentence 2
Extinct animals
Number of teenagers (%)
Dodo
31
Japanese sea lion
13
The teenagers surveyed cited the dodo as a considerably more familiar extinct animal than the Japanese sea lion.
Sentence 3
Extinct animals
Number of teenagers (%)
Zanzibar leopard
10
Dodo
31
The percentage of the respondents who claim to know the Zanzibar leopard is more than three times lower than the percentage of those who claim to know the dodo (10% and 31% respectively).
Sentence 4
Extinct animals
Number of teenagers (%)
Tasmanian tiger
19
Japanese sea lion
13
The Tasmanian tiger is a more well-known animal among the teenagers surveyed than the Japanese Sea Lion.
Sentence 5