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Wednesday

9 October
th

2024
The fourth
Staff meeting
Paraphrasing
and
summarizing
summarizing
A summary is a short retelling of a longer written
passage, containing the author’s most important
ideas.

As for the summary in the secondary stage,


it is a conditional summary and not a free
summary, meaning that there is always a
question that the student answers in four
sentences, which means that this question
has four or more answers within the
paragraph to be summarized, so the
student searches for them and lists them in
the form of a paragraph.
What is meant by
Paraphrase

Restating information from another


source
using your own words
without changing the meaning.
How to paraphrase

To paraphrase, you need


to:

•change the structure of the


sentence

•change the words in the sentence


Changing the structure of a
sentence

1.Read the original text a number of times and make


sure you understand the main ideas.

2. Write down the main ideas from memory.

3. Compare what you have written with the original


text and make sure you have retained the original ideas
and that your version is different.
Changing the
words

1.Once you understand the main ideas of the original


text, look for specialised words or keywords– these
words may be retained (kept) in the paraphrased version,
as they are key to the meaning of the sentence.

2. Look for words or phrases that can be


changed.

3. Try to think or to use a dictionary to find


synonyms.
some techniques for
paraphrasing

•asserts – claims, argues, maintains


Change vocabulary
•twentieth century – 1900s
by using synonyms •illustrates – explains, emphasises,
clarifies

•analyse – analysis, analysing


Change word class •create – creating, creation
•assume – assumption, assuming,
assumed

•The scientists found that people can’t


Change the live on Mars.
sentence structure
• It was found that we can’t live on
Mars.

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