This document provides guidance on writing summaries for the Grade 12 English Home Language Paper 1 exam. It explains that a summary is a shortened version of a text written in your own words. Students will be required to reduce a passage to a specified number of words, including only the main points and key ideas. The document outlines a 14-step process for writing a summary, including reading instructions, identifying main ideas, drafting a summary in full sentences, revising and editing to meet the word limit and style requirements, and presenting the final summary. Requirements specified are to avoid personal pronouns, slang, quotations, contractions, numbers, figures of speech, examples, unnecessary words, and to write in the past tense.
This document provides guidance on writing summaries for the Grade 12 English Home Language Paper 1 exam. It explains that a summary is a shortened version of a text written in your own words. Students will be required to reduce a passage to a specified number of words, including only the main points and key ideas. The document outlines a 14-step process for writing a summary, including reading instructions, identifying main ideas, drafting a summary in full sentences, revising and editing to meet the word limit and style requirements, and presenting the final summary. Requirements specified are to avoid personal pronouns, slang, quotations, contractions, numbers, figures of speech, examples, unnecessary words, and to write in the past tense.
This document provides guidance on writing summaries for the Grade 12 English Home Language Paper 1 exam. It explains that a summary is a shortened version of a text written in your own words. Students will be required to reduce a passage to a specified number of words, including only the main points and key ideas. The document outlines a 14-step process for writing a summary, including reading instructions, identifying main ideas, drafting a summary in full sentences, revising and editing to meet the word limit and style requirements, and presenting the final summary. Requirements specified are to avoid personal pronouns, slang, quotations, contractions, numbers, figures of speech, examples, unnecessary words, and to write in the past tense.
This document provides guidance on writing summaries for the Grade 12 English Home Language Paper 1 exam. It explains that a summary is a shortened version of a text written in your own words. Students will be required to reduce a passage to a specified number of words, including only the main points and key ideas. The document outlines a 14-step process for writing a summary, including reading instructions, identifying main ideas, drafting a summary in full sentences, revising and editing to meet the word limit and style requirements, and presenting the final summary. Requirements specified are to avoid personal pronouns, slang, quotations, contractions, numbers, figures of speech, examples, unnecessary words, and to write in the past tense.
GRADE 11 SUMMER INTERVENTION 2020 Getting ready for Matric 2021
ENGLISH HOME LANGUAGE
GRADE 12 PAPER 1: SUMMARY WRITING RESOURCES: English Handbook and study guide, Solutions for all Gr. 12, X-KIT Achieve and past examination papers Compiled by: Mrs H.H-Stevens
WHAT IS A SUMMARY? It is a shortened version written in your own words of a text or passage you have read. For the exams in Paper 1, Section B, you will be required to reduce a given extract to a certain number of words. Only the main points are required. Eliminate unnecessary information such as repetition, explanations, descriptions and quotations. By using your own words, you will indicate that you understand the passage.
WHY IS SUMMARISING A LIFE SKILL?
• Summarising teaches you to be brief and to get straight to the point. • It forces you to analyse and simplify your material. • Summary writing goes hand in hand with analytical skills. • The ability to summarise will aid you in your studies and in your career.
TECHNIQUES FOR SUMMARISING:
➢ STEPS 1 – 3: PLAN
1. Read the INSTRUCTIONS carefully.
WHY? 1.1 To determine what information to look for from the text.
Example: The article is about the advantages and disadvantages of being an entrepreneur in South Africa. The instructions ask you to summarise the advantages of being an entrepreneur in South Africa, then you would not include information about the disadvantages of being an entrepreneur in South Africa.
1|Page EHL: NOTES ON SUMMARY WRITING
1.2 The number of words for the summary will also be indicated in the instructions.
2. Read the passage carefully to gain a general overview of the content.
3. Reread the passage and underline the key sentence or main ideas in each paragraph. This is often the first sentence of the paragraph and what follows merely substantiates it. (REMEMBER: The summary is based on the passage only. DO NOT write your own opinion.)
➢ STEPS 4 – 6: DRAFT
4. List these main points – you may use your own words and the underlined keywords but keep the context intact.
5. Write the first draft of the summary by combining these main ideas in a logical sequence. Write in FULL SENTENCES. Remember NOT to copy verbatim (word for word).
6. Write in one fluent paragraph with SEVEN points /main ideas /FACTS – do not skip lines.
