Video Transcript
Complete the following statements
with taller or shorter. The rabbit is what than the eight
blocks. The carrot is what than the eight
blocks. The rabbit is what than the
carrot.
This is a comparing problem where
we’re comparing the heights of different objects. And in the final sentence, we have
to either say that the rabbit is taller than the carrot or the rabbit is shorter
than the carrot. But unfortunately, we haven’t got
the rabbit and the carrot side by side in one of the pictures. To find the answer, we have to
compare both objects, the rabbit and the carrot, with a third object. And the third object, as we can see
from the picture, is eight blocks. And these eight blocks are in the
tower.
Let’s start by comparing the rabbit
with the eight blocks. Is the rabbit taller or shorter
than the eight blocks? We can see that the top of her ear
comes above the tower, doesn’t it? The rabbit is taller than the eight
blocks. Now, let’s compare the carrot with
the same eight blocks. And if we compare the height of the
carrot with the height of the blocks, we can see it doesn’t reach all the way to the
top, does it? We have to use the word shorter to
complete this sentence. The carrot is shorter than the
eight blocks.
So if the rabbit is taller than the
eight blocks and the carrot is shorter than the eight blocks, we now know which is
taller out of the rabbit and the carrot. The rabbit is taller than the
carrot. The rabbit is taller than the eight
blocks. The carrot is shorter than the
eight blocks. And that’s how we know the rabbit
is taller than the carrot. The missing words are taller,
shorter, and taller.
