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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

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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