Introductory Note

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 733.

Read the following article. Present its contents in the form of an oral summary when tested on your progress in independent reading. Keep your summary to 300-350 words.

A summary is a brief restatement in your own words of the main idea of a passage, article or entire book. When you summarize a text, you should be careful not to leave out important points or misrepresent an author's intention. Before giving your summary make sure that you thoroughly understand your source. As you re-read a source, pay careful attention to understand topic sentences, headings, or key words that will help clarify the source's meaning. Your summary should present the important ideas of the original without using the exact language or phrasing.

Make use of the following standard phrases and expressions while making your summary:

1 the article is called ... = the title of the article is ...

2 the article is published in ... = is printed in ...

3 the article is about/ on ...

is devoted to ...

is concerned with ...

deals with ...

touches upon the problem of ...

4 in the introductory part of the

article the author points out ...

5 the following facts are stressed

in the article

6 the article contains useful information on ...

7 in concluding paragraphs it is

pointed out ...

8 the article contains statistics about ...

9 the reader's attention is drawn to ...

10 I find the article interesting/ important/

easy to understand/ hard to understand

11TRANSITIONAL WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS: first of all/ at first/

secondly/ then/ besides that/ next/ in conclusion/ finally.