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English
Quarter 2 - Module 5

SUMMARIZING
KEY INFORMATION

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DAY 1

General Directions: Read each item carefully and write ONLY the letter of your answer
on a separate sheet of paper.

For items number 1-4, identify the terms described.

1. It is the sentence that expresses the topic or the main idea of the paragraph.
A. topic sentence C. irrelevant sentence
B. supporting sentence D. introductory sentence
2. It is a shortened version of a given text focusing only on the main idea and necessary
information.
A. outline B. paraphrase C. precis D. summary
3. It is a group of sentences that develops one main idea.
A. clauses B. paragraph C. sentence D. write up
4. Which of the following does not describe a summary?
A. It is a shortened version of a passage.
B. It is changing the idea of the original passage.
C. It condenses a selection but highlights its main points.
D. It is a brief statement of the main ideas of a passage in one’s words.
5. Which of the following is not used to support ideas or topics in a passage?
A. details B. facts C. reasons D. word order
6. Which of the following is considered important to come up with a good summary?
A. comments B. details C. explanation D. main idea
7. Which of the following does not tell how summarizing benefits students?
A. It improves students’ memory.
B. It trains students to write short-cuts.
C. It develops the skill to recognize important ideas.
D. It allows students to combine and organize the information in a logical order.
8. Sentences that provide examples and explanation of the main idea are called.________
A. analysis B. background information C. outline D. supporting details
9. The following are reasons why we need to summarize a text EXCEPT:
A. We summarize to get the main idea.
B. The text is faulty and needs to be revised.
C. The text is too long and important points must be identified.
D. The text has many details that tend to distract the main idea.
For items number 10-15, refer to the paragraphs.
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Adolescence is the most trying stage of a person’s life. 2It is the time when one is no longer a
child but is not yet a man or a woman. 3One is in a quandary whether to act like a kid or like an
adult. 4Indeed, at this stage, one is too old to sit in his/her father’s lap but too young to be
(romantically) in love. (Source: Skill Builders For Efficient Reading 7, p.103)
10. Which of the following sentences expresses the main idea of the text?
A. sentence 1 C. sentence 3
B. sentence 2 D. sentence 4

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11. Which of the sentences in the paragraph contains the topic sentence?
A. sentence 1 B. sentence 2 C. sentence 3 D. sentence 4
12. What does the word quandary mean in sentence number 3?
A. amazement B. excitement C. confusion D. revelation
13. What is the main idea of the paragraph?
A. Adolescence means exciting adventures and fun.
B. Adolescence is a period of confusion and adjustments.
C. Adolescence is the most exciting part in a person’s life.
D. Adolescence is a period between infanthood and childhood.
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Green curry is the hottest Thai curry. 2People who like very spicy food will enjoy green
curry. 3Red curry is medium hot. 4It is flavorful, but it doesn't burn your mouth. 5Yellow curry is
the mildest of all. 6It is usually the choice of people who eat Thai food for the first time. 7In short,
you have three delicious choices when you order Thai curry .

14. Which sentence number contains the main idea of the paragraph?
A. sentence 1 B. sentence 2 C. sentence 6 D. sentence 7
15. Which of the following sentences summarizes the paragraph?
A. Red curry is medium hot.
B. Green curry is the hottest Thai curry.
C. Curry is the main ingredient for hot curry.
D. Thai curry comes in three different delicious choices.
DAY 2

Lesson 1 TOPIC SENTENCE

After going through the process of discovery with the learning tasks, you are expected to:
1. identify the topic sentence/ main idea of a paragraph; and
2.explain the importance of determining the main idea.

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What are the characters talking about?

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 The characters in the comic strip talk about finding the main idea of a paragraph. In this
lesson, you will learn how to find the main idea of a paragraph.

A paragraph is a group of sentences that develops one main idea. It is a unit of thought in
which all the sentences present and develop one main idea. The main idea is usually found in one
sentence called the topic sentence. The other sentences support the main idea with examples,
details, facts, reasons, or incidents. These are called the supporting details. Many paragraphs
have the topic sentence in the beginning. Other paragraphs have the topic sentence in the
middle. Still, other paragraphs end with a topic sentence that summarizes in one final statement
the specific information that came before. (Source: Prentice Hall-Grammar and Composition 2,
p473)

To find the topic sentence in a paragraph, look for the sentence that acts as an umbrella for
all the ideas in the other sentences.

Let us take these examples:

1. The Philippines has rich natural resources. It is rich in minerals, including gold, silver,
copper, nickel and iron. It has extensive forests and agricultural lands. It is one of the world’s
largest producers of sugar, bananas, mangoes, and copra. Fish and other marine products
abound in Philippine waters because its 7,103 islands are surrounded by the China Sea, the
Pacific Ocean and the Sulu Sea. (Source: Skill Builders for Efficient Reading 8, p.90)

The topic sentence is: The Philippines has rich natural resources. It expresses the main idea
of the paragraph. It is found at the beginning of the paragraph. The supporting sentences are
those that give details about the main idea.

2. Quarterbacks must have skill in the act of throwing a pass and they must think quickly.
Running backs must also be fast on their feet and quick to move away from tacklers. Linemen,
on the other hand, must be good at blocking the running advances of the other team, and they
must develop strength and determination. Each position in football requires special skills.
(Source: Prentice Hall Grammar and Composition 2, p 474)

The topic sentence is: Each position in football requires special skills. It is the main idea. It
is found at the last part of the paragraph and its supporting details are written before it.

Directions: Read the following paragraphs and identify the topic sentence.
1. 1Man communicates with his Creator in varied ways. 2He may fall on his knees and lift his
heart and mind to heaven through prayer and supplication. 3He may perform rituals. 4He may
illustrate religious sentiments effectively through the medium of music. (Source: Skill Builders for
Efficient Reading 7, p.104)

Which sentence contains the topic sentence? __________________________________.

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2. There are several possible reasons why my father is in excellent health. 2First, he is in
excellent condition because he quits smoking. 3Second, he also has good health because he
goes for healthy foods. In the past, he used to eat fatty foods. 4Third, he is in good physical
shape, for he exercises a lot. 5He swims three times a week at the local gym. 6He is happy
with what he has achieved for his body.

Which sentence contains the topic sentence? __________________________________.

Directions: Complete the paragraph to summarize your learning of this lesson.

The ________________ states the main idea of the paragraph. It can be found at the
______________, _____________, or at the _______________ of the paragraph.

Directions: Read the following text and answer the questions that follow. Write your answer on
a separate sheet of paper.

Forests and woodlands provide a home for many plants and animals. Many people like
forests because of the peace and beauty they find there. Beautiful orchids and wildflowers bloom
in the forests. The roots and the soil under the trees take in large amounts of rainwater. This
prevents erosion and floods. The forest’s soil also filters water so that it is pure as it enters
streams and wells. Forests purify the air we breathe. As green plants manufacture food, they
release oxygen into the air. Forests are useful as well as beautiful.
(Source: Skill Builders for Efficient Reading 8, p 90)
1. In the first sentence, the forest is _________ to many plants and animals.
A. cover B. home C. throne D. walls
2. The main idea of the paragraph is found in the ________part of the paragraph.
A. beginning B. last C. middle D. not stated
3. Which sentence states the main idea of the paragraph?
A. Forests purify the air we breathe.
B. Forests are useful as well as beautiful.
C. Green plants manufacture food for animals.
D. Forests and woodlands provide a home for many plants and animals.
4. What is the best title for the above paragraph?
A. Uses of Water
B. Floods and Erosion
C. Beautiful Orchids and Wildlife
D. Uses of Forests and Woodlands

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DAY 3
Lesson 2 WHAT IS A SUMMARY?

After going through the process of discovery with the learning tasks, you are expected to:
1. determine how to summarize a paragraph; and
2. explain the importance of knowing how to summarize the inform.

Improving your comprehension skills requires you to simplify ideas. You may have come
across long selections and you are required to simplify them in your own words. To comprehend
better, you must learn to locate main ideas in paragraphs, note supporting details and distinguish
between important and unimportant details. Comprehension also means to learn the skill in
summarizing. You will have to follow certain steps for you to be guided in making a summary.

What is a summary?

A summary is a shortened version of a piece of writing. It condenses a selection, but highlights

or restates its main points. A summary eliminates details, examples, supporting points,
explanation and comments, making important points easy to understand.

In other words, a summary is a brief statement, in your own words, of the main ideas and
supporting details used in a reading text .(https://slideplayer.com/slide/13095283/).

Original Paragraph:

Skipping breakfast might seem like an easy way for dieters to cut calories. However,
new research finds that the majority of people who are successful at losing weight and keeping
it off eat breakfast everyday. (36 words)

Summarized paragraph:

Research shows that people who wish to lose weight do not skip breakfast.

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Process questions:
1. Which of the paragraphs do you easily understand?
2. Do you understand the original version or the summarized version? Explain.
3. Does the summarized paragraph contain the same idea as the original one?

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 Why do we summarize?
1. First, we summarize when the text or passage is very long. A long text is understandable
when its important details are simplified and easy to understand.
2. Next, when there are a lot of minor details in the text that distract from the main points.
3. Lastly, we summarize to check one’s understanding of the text.

Why is summarizing important?

1.Summarizing teaches students the skill to recognize the most important ideas in a passage or
text.
2. It trains students to identify irrelevant ideas, focus on the important details and integrate the
main idea in a meaningful way.
3. Summarizing also improves memory for what is read.
4. Summarizing allows students to understand large quantities of information and to identify and
select the important points.
5. It also allows students to combine and organize the information in a logical order and rewrite
ideas in one’s own words and present them in short and clear sentences.
Now that you know what a summary is, reasons why we summarize and the steps to make
a summary, let us try to make a summary of the passage below.

Right after supper, Pepe found it hard to study for a test. So, he listened to some music,
but it only made him sleepy. He opened the windows of his room to let in fresh air, yet it didn’t
work either. Then, he went out to the living room to join his sisters working on their modules, but
he was distracted by their noise. So, he decided to do some push ups to make him feel energized.
Finally, as he sat down on his chair, he began reading his books, reviewed notes and answered
the exercises given.

Summary:

Pepe found it hard to study for a test. He tried listening to music, opening the windows of
his room and going out to the living room but none of these worked. So, he did some push ups
to energize him and finally, he got himself to study.

Directions: Complete the statements with a word from the word pool.

irrelevant summary long condenses ideas details meaning

1. A _________ is a shortened version of a piece of writing.

2. A summary ____________ a selection but highlights its main points.
3. A summary eliminates __________, examples, supporting points and comments.
4. We need to summarize when the text or passage is very ___________,
5. Summarizing trains students to identify _________ideas and focus on the important details.

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Directions: Complete the paragraph to summarize your learning of this lesson.

A summary is _______________________________________________________
Summary is important because __________________________________________

Directions: Read the paragraph and make a summary.

Perhaps, since I am a high school student, somebody might say that I have my entire life ahead
of me, with all its beautiful experiences. But despite being so young, I already have a personal
breathtaking experience, which I am sure I will carry with me until my last days. What I am talking
about here is my first hike to the mountains.
___________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________

DAY 4

Lesson 3 SUMMARIZING A PASSAGE

After going through the process of discovery with the learning tasks, you are expected to:
1. summarize a passage, and
2. share insights on summarizing as an important study skill.

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What is the picture all about?

What does the teacher want the student to do?

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 Reading is an integral part of a student’s life. You read to answer a given task. You read to
understand. To understand what you read , you need to learn how to summarize. Summarizing
is like panning for gold—it helps you look for and find the main points and key details in every
paragraph. Effective learning is all about identifying and understanding main points and key
details. Your summary statements should look like gold- main points, key details, and nothing
else.

GUIDELINES IN WRITING A SUMMARY

Here are simple steps to make a summary.

1. Read carefully and understand the passage.

2. Once you’ve read it thoroughly, identify its topic or main idea.
3. Underline the key words in the question to keep focused so that you do not deviate from the
task at hand.
4. Eliminate supporting details, events, examples, comments and explanations.
5. Use your own words in making your summary in just two-three sentences.
6. Read aloud and correct. Read the summary aloud, correcting any mistakes.
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“The Northern Lights”

There are times when the night sky glows with bands of color. The bands may begin as
cloud shapes and then spread into a great arc across the entire sky. They may fall in folds like a
curtain drawn across the heavens. The lights usually grow brighter, then suddenly dim. During this
time the sky glows with pale yellow, pink, green, violet, blue, and red. These lights are called the
Aurora Borealis. Some people call them the Northern Lights. Scientists have been watching them
for hundreds of years. They are not quite sure what causes them. In ancient times, people were
afraid of the Lights. They imagined that they saw fiery dragons in the sky. Some even concluded
that the heavens were on fire.

Summary
The Aurora Borealis, or Northern Lights, are bands of color in the night sky. Ancient people
thought that these lights were dragons on fire, and even modern scientists are not sure what
they are. (Source: Long Beach City College WRSC, https://www.lbcc.edu/sites/main/files/file-
attachments/summarizingparagraph.pdf)

The encircled parts are those that make up the main idea. The sentences that talk about
colors and shapes support the first sentence in the summary. The last four sentences
support the second sentence in the summary.

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 What I Can Do
Directions: Read the following text and write its summary. Write your answer on a separate
sheet of paper.
Root crops are a good substitute for rice and corn among the people in the highlands.
These crops are cassava, gabi, camote, ube and tugi. They are cooked in several ways – like
boiling, broiling, frying or making them into jam, pastillas and pudding. Root crops are rich in
carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals. They are easy to grow and they require little care.
When rice is out of supply, root crops are there to the rescue.

Summary: _______________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________

What I Have Learned

Directions: Complete the statement to signify your learning in this lesson

Learning to summarize is an important study skill because ________________________

__________________________________________________________________________.

Directions: Read the paragraph and write a two-sentence summary of it on a separate sheet of
My father is a book lover and a wide reader. He collects and reads books that were written over
a hundred years ago. His collection is a mix of topics, like history, geography, science, politics,
travels, current trends and others. He is also interested in the famous books of today. If I ever
need to get him a present, I know I can always please him by buying him a book.

Summary: _________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________

DAY 4

General Directions: Read each item carefully and write only the letter of your answer on a
separate sheet of paper.
1. Which of the following does not describe a summary?
A. It is a shortened version of a passage.
B. It is changing the idea of the original passage.
C. It condenses a selection but highlights its main points.
D. It is a brief statement of the main ideas of a passage in one’s words.

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2. Which of the following is considered important to come up with a good summary?
A. comments B. details C. explanation D. main idea
3. Which of the following does not tell how summarizing benefits students?
A. It improves students’ memory.
B. It trains students to write short-cuts.
C. It develops the skill to recognize important ideas.
D. It allows students to combine and organize the information in a logical order. .
4. It is the sentence that expresses the topic or the main idea of the paragraph.
A. topic sentence C. irrelevant sentence
B. supporting sentence D. introductory sentence
5. Sentences that provide examples and explanation of the main idea are called.________
A. analysis B. background information C. outline D. supporting details
6. The following are reasons why we need to summarize a text EXCEPT:
A. We summarize to get the main idea.
B. The text is faulty and needs to be revised.
C. The text is too long and important points must be identified.
D. The text has many details that tend to distract the main idea.
7. It is a group of sentences that develops one main idea.
A. clauses B. paragraph C. sentence D. write up

For items number 8-15, refer to the following paragraphs:

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Delinquent accounts were assessments to which the taxpayers generally did not agree.
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If ever they agreed, they did not have ready cash all the time. 3They begged for time, eventually
forgetting their deficiency tax. 4The most pressing problem in tax collection is the collection of
delinquent taxes. (Source: Skill Builders for Efficient Reading 7, p.104)
8. Delinquent accounts are ____________.
A. active B. important C. old D. overdue
9. Which sentence is the topic sentence?
A. sentence 1 B. sentence 2 C. sentence 3 D. sentence 4
10. The main idea of the text is found at the __________ of the paragraph.
A. beginning B. end C. middle D. not stated
11. Which of the following sentences summarizes the paragraph?
A. Collecting delinquent taxes is hard to do.
B. They taxpayers asked favors from tax collectors.
C. Delinquent accounts must be collected because they are past due.
D. Taxpayers are often forgetful in terms of payment for their obligations.
Adolescence is the most trying stage of a person’s life. 2It is the time when one is no longer a
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child but is not yet a man or a woman. 3One is in a quandary whether to act like a kid or like an
adult. 4Indeed, at this stage, one is too old to sit in his/her father’s lap but too young to be
(romantically) in love. (Source: Skill Builders for Efficient Reading 7, p.103)
12. Which of the following sentences expresses the main idea of the text?
A. sentence 1 C. sentence 2
B. sentence 3 D. sentence 4

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13. Which of the sentences in the paragraph contains the topic sentence?
A. sentence 1 C. sentence 3
B. sentence 2 D. sentence 4
14. What does the word quandary mean in sentence number 3?
A. amazement C. confusion
B. excitement D. revelation
15. Which sentence summarizes the paragraph?
A. Adolescence means exciting adventures and fun.
B. Adolescence is the most exciting part in a person’s life.
C. Adolescence is a period between infanthood and childhood.
D. Adolescence is a period of confusion and adjustments of a person’s life.

References:

Books
Catacutan, Carol Mina C.,et.al. 2006. English of the New Generation I ( Philippine
Literature). Quezon City: Sunshine Interlinks Publishing House, Inc.
DepEd. 2017. English Grade 7 Learner’s Material (First Edition). Pasig City: DepEd –
Bureau of Learning Resources.
Forlini, Gary (Senior author), et. al. 2004. Grammar and Composition 2. Singapore:
Pearson Education South Asia Prentice Ltd.
Villamin, Araceli M. 1986. Skill Builders for Efficient Reading 7. Quezon City: Phoenix
Publishing House, Inc.
Villamin, Araceli M. 1986. Skill Builders for Efficient Reading 8. Quezon City: Phoenix
Publishing House, Inc.

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https://www.oliveboard.in/blog/precis-writing-bank-government-mba-exams-guide-approach/

https://sites.google.com/a/coe.edu/kayla-darrow/home/lesson-one-why-summarize

https://www.pinterest.ph/pin/104216178853388275/
https://slideplayer.com/slide/13095283/

Answer Key

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DAY 2 DAY 3 DAY 4

WHAT I CAN DO WHAT I CAN DO WHAT I CAN DO

1. sentence 1 1. summary Root crops are good substitute for rice
2. sentence 1 2. condenses and corn among the people in the
WHAT I HAVE LARNED 3. details uplands. These are rich in nutrients ,
4. long easy to grow and cooked in various ways.
Answers may vary 5. irrelevant WHAT I HAVE LEARNED
WHAT I HAVE Answers may vary
WHAT ‘S MORE LEARNED WHAT’S MORE
Answers may vary Answers may vary
1. B 2. B 3. B 4. D WHAT’S MORE
answers may vary

Acknowledgments

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