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ELA Drills, Intermediate: Comparing and Contrasting 3. How do Bobby's motivations compare and/or contrast with Kenny's?
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- 00:03
And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by zoos what if
- 00:07
all of the earth is a zoo extraterrestrials visit in their spare [Planet Earth with a zoo entrance]
- 00:11
time. Alright so read the following paragraph, Kenny and Bobby both wanted to
- 00:15
buy a zoo for Kenny whose love of marmosets was his life purpose the zoo
- 00:20
was the ultimate location for Bobby who wanted Kenny's happiness above all else [Paragraph appearing]
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- 00:24
the zoo was the most boring location on earth
- 00:26
clearly Bobby's never been to the DMV but anyway here's our question how do [Long queue outside a DMV building]
- 00:32
Bobby's motivations compare and or contrast with Kenny's and here are the
- 00:35
potential answers (reading through the answers quickly) alright well remember to
- 00:42
compare and contrast Bobby and Kenny's motivations we need to figure out what's [Magnifying glass on Kenny and Bobby]
- 00:46
going on inside their heads they might be on the exact same page but they also
- 00:50
might be worlds apart great minds don't always think alike and
- 00:53
not everyone's forward-thinking enough to imagine breakdancing unicorns [Kenny and Bobby thinking of animals]
- 00:57
you know you do Kenny, so let's get back to the paragraph and try to figure out
- 01:00
what Kenny and Bobby are each thinking well let's first look at Kenny's
- 01:03
motivations we see that his love of marmosets was his life purpose which made [Kenny petting a Marmoset]
- 01:09
the zoo the ultimate location well this gives us
- 01:12
a very clear picture of Kenny he's really into the zoo on account of his
- 01:15
plentiful and maybe unhealthy marmoset love all right our pal Bobby however [Love hearts come from Kenny's eyes as he thinks of marmosets]
- 01:22
thinks that the zoo is the most boring location on earth eesh we wonder if Bobby
- 01:26
maybe took one for many trips to the zoo with one too many accountants what [Bobby looks bored as the accountant is talking]
- 01:30
do you think, however despite all that he still wants to buy the zoo because he
- 01:34
wanted Kenny's happiness above all else checking the available options we see [Bobby looks happy]
- 01:39
that the only one that matches with Bobby and Kenny's motivations is D
- 01:42
Bobby wants to buy a zoo to make Kenny happy while Kenny wants to buy a zoo for
- 01:47
his love of marmosets so that's our answer no fuss no muss no coconuts which [Answer D is highlighted]
- 01:52
is disappointing because we were really hoping for a coconut... [Aliens]
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