the similarities and differences between living in South Korea and Japan

5D  Additional worksheet to Speaking Book

Read the topic on p.8 and p.9 and complete the dialogues below:

C: I think ___________ _____________ some similarities __________ living in Japan and South Korea. Firstly, both places are ____________. The ____________ __________ in both these two places are ____________ low.

A: Yes. ____________in other big cities in Western countries, violent crimes are very ___________ in Japan and South Korea. I have read news articles and heard from friends that if you leave your wallet in a shop or in a park, you will surely get it back even after a few days.

D: Wow! That’s really good. ________, it is safe to live in these two places.

B: _________________. However, for foreigners living in these two cities, they will face a _______________ language problem. I mean few Japanese and even _____________ Koreans can speak fluent English. Also, most ___________ of information in those two countries are only ________________ in local language.

C: That’s ______________! In my experience, both languages are difficult to learn.

A: Having talked about their similarities, we should now _________ __________ to their _______________. These two countries also ____________ in many ways. For example, the __________ _______ ________________ in Japan is _________

_____________than in Korea.

D: Do you mean that things are more expensive in Japan?

A: Yes, ___________, food, _______________and grocery items are __________ _______________ in South Korea. That’s why many foreigners working in South Korea say that they can have a good lifestyle and can still quite easily save money.

B: ________ __________ ____________ living in South Korea is quite an attractive ___________, especially for young people like Chris, who don’t have a lot of money but want to experience a different culture.

C: In the letter, we should really remind Chris about the different __________ of ________ in these two countries.

Words and phrases:

When we agree with someone(認同別人的時候可說):

1.      ____________________

2.      _____________________________-

When we want to talk about next topic(帶出下個討論事項), we can say:

1.      Having talked about ….., we ____________________________________.....

When we want to say two things are similar, we can say(X和Y有很多相似. 首先,)

1.      __________________________________________________________________

When we want to say two things are different(X和Y有很多不同, 例如)

1.      X and Y ______________ in many ways. For example, ….

When we want to say “似乎聽起來”:

1.      ___________________________....

The capital of Japan is _________________.

The capital of South Korea is ________________.

生活指數____________________________

可獲得的,可找到的 ___________________

e.g ____________________________________________________________

answers:

there are 

between

safe

crime rates

equally

unlike

rare

So

Absolutely

similar

fewer

signs

available

true

move on

differences

differ

cost of living

much higher

rent

transport

much cheaper

It sounds that

option

cost of living

1. Absolutely

 2. That's true

1. ..we now move one...

1. There are many similarities between X and Y. Firstly,...

1. differ 

1. it sounds like...

Tokyo

Seoul

cost of living

available

e.g There are no space in the school available for us to build a swimming pool.