Fun Facts and Comparisons Across Various Topics
Explore interesting facts and comparisons such as women addicted to chocolate, the popularity of paperback books, city divorce rates, common surnames, flags, and more. Discover unique insights like the male-female ratio in Anchorage, Alaska, and how different industries and lifestyles affect people's lives.
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Fact: 1 out of 4 women is addicted to chocolate. Analyze the fact 1. Identify the whole 2. Identify the part 3. Determine the percentage or fraction 4. Determine what is implied for the rest of the whole
A. Ranking Fact: The U.S. cities with the highest divorce rates are first Dallas, then Phoenix, and then Houston.
B. Naming the top five Fact: The five most common surnames in the United States are: Smith, Johnson, Williams, Jones, and Brown.
C. Naming the top, most, oldest Fact: Of the three flags the British Union Jack, the French Tri-color, and the U.S. Stars and Stripes the Stars and Stripes is oldest.
Answer Key Exercise 3: Comparisons 1. Topics Babies of Deaf parents (DP), babies of Hearing parents (HP) Question Who learns to communicate first? Information Babies of DP learn first, 3 months before babies of HP. Interpretation The voice box takes no longer to develop than hand movements; or we should use sign language with all babies. Lincoln, Washington 2. Topics Question Which President has more places and things named after him? Information Lincoln has more places and things named after him (1,361) than Washington (1,346) Interpretation 3. Topics Cars or bottle caps Question Which uses steel more? Information Every year more steel is used to make bottle caps. Interpretation
4. Topics Car industry vs. movie industry Question Which industry has more employees? Information The car industry employs about 3,000,000 vs. 200,000 employed by the movie industry. Interpretation 5. Topics Wine/beer vs. mouthwashes Question Whish has more alcohol? Mouthwashes have more alcohol (14-27%) than wine/beer (3.2-14%); therefore they are banned in prisons. Information Interpretation 6. Topics People living in the country vs. people living in the city; vegetarians vs. non-vegetarians Question Who lives longer? Information People living in the country live an average of 5 years longer than people living in the city; vegetarians live an average of 10 years longer than non-vegetarians. Interpretation
7. Topics Anchorage, Alaska, and Jackson, Mississippi Question Which city has more males than females? Information The male-female ratio in Anchorage, Alaska, is 107.7 men to 100 women. In Jackson, Mississippi, it s 88.3 men to 100 women. Interpretation 8. Topics Students from one-parent families vs. students from two-parent families Question Who gets kicked out of high school more? Information Three times as many students from one-parent families as from two-parent families get kicked out of school. Interpretation 9. Topics Country of Burma vs. the Las Vegas Hilton Question Which has more hotel rooms? Information The Las Vegas Hilton has three times as many hotel rooms as has the whole country of Burma. Interpretation
10. Topics Pet food vs. baby food Question On which do Americans spend more money? Information Americans spend four times as much money on pet food as on baby food. Interpretation
Translation Guide 1a. Name topics (use contrastive structure) 2a. Pose the question (use rhetorical question) or 1b. Pose the question (use rhetorical question) 2b. Name topics (use contrastive structure) 3. Supply answer 4. Give interpretation by addressing either why the fact is true, or explaining what should be done
Remarkable Coincidences 1. Lincoln was elected president in 1860 and Kennedy was elected President in 1960. 2. Mary Lincoln and Jacqueline Kennedy both had children who died while their husbands were in the White House.
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