The Australian Dictionary of Invisible Culture for Teachers
contrast
verb: someone does something (see more)
It can be like this:
Sometimes the teacher says something like this to students about two things “Contrast these two things.”
When it is like this, it is good if the students think about it like this: I want to think about two things at the same time because I want to say something about these two things at the same time.
It is good if a student can think like this: One of these things is like this (X), the other thing is not like this. I can say the same about the other something.
After this, this student can say something (to the teacher) about both these things at the same time.
Note
'Compare' is usually paired with 'contrast', the key difference between the two is in line 4 of the entry, where compare states 'both these things are like this' but contrast states 'one of these things is like this.'"Compare and contrast the TV series and the film to discover which is more faithful to the original book."
"Contrast the portrayal of Marianne Dashwood in each of the miniseries and discuss the key differences."
"Contrast the findings of your experiement to the one done in class and discuss why these changes might have happened."
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