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C/W 4/3/21 IGCSE Revision - Question 1 Summary

The document provides guidance on writing summaries in three main steps: 1. Read the question carefully to understand what parts of the passage to focus on summarizing. 2. Read through the passage once to gain an overall understanding, then re-read focusing on information relevant to the question. 3. Write the summary as continuous prose using concise language and avoiding opinions, extra details, or direct quotations from the passage. The purpose is to demonstrate understanding of the key points in a succinct manner. Final tips emphasize brevity, focusing only on relevant details, and using an objective tone without personal comments.

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C/W 4/3/21 IGCSE Revision - Question 1 Summary

The document provides guidance on writing summaries in three main steps: 1. Read the question carefully to understand what parts of the passage to focus on summarizing. 2. Read through the passage once to gain an overall understanding, then re-read focusing on information relevant to the question. 3. Write the summary as continuous prose using concise language and avoiding opinions, extra details, or direct quotations from the passage. The purpose is to demonstrate understanding of the key points in a succinct manner. Final tips emphasize brevity, focusing only on relevant details, and using an objective tone without personal comments.

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C/W 4/3/21

IGCSE Revision – Question 1 Summary


LO:
To write in concise manner while still making sure that your writing makes sense.
Do now:
1. Develop the steps/ process you 4 minutes
would use to respond the summary
question.
E.g.
1- Read the question carefully and
underline the key tasks/words.
2-
End
Step 1: read the question carefully
This is very important, as it is unlikely that you will be required to summarise the whole of the original passage(s). The
wording of the question will direct you towards the points you should include. For example, the whole passage may be about
everyday life in Japan, but you may be asked to summarise only what it tells you about going to school in that country. You
must, therefore, keep the wording of the question clearly in mind when reading the passage.

Step 2: read through the passage once


This will allow you to gain a good, overall understanding of what the material is about.

Step 3: identify the information that is relevant.


Refresh your memory of what the question asks you to do and then read through the passage again.
At this stage you should underline or highlight on the question paper all the information that is relevant to the question. You
must be ruthless. Ignore anything that is not relevant, no matter how interesting you may find it. It may help you give your
summary a title.

Study Tips - Remember that some points in the original


passage may be harder to find than others – this may be
because they are implied by the writer, rather than being
explicitly stated. Your final summary will be more successful
if you are able to identify these implied points.

Objectives: To write in concise manner while still making sure that your writing makes sense.
Study Tips - An important word of warning – do not include:
Personal opinion. Extra information or explanations. Your own comments or opinions on the points
made in the original text. Quotations from the original passage.
The reader of your summary do not want to know your personal opinions about the topic; instead, they
want to know how well you have understood the original writer’s viewpoint.

Step 4: write your summary


You should write your summary as a piece of continuous prose, trying to keep your expression as
concise as possible.

Objectives: To write in concise manner while still making sure that your writing makes sense.
Final Tips!
• Concision of expression is something which typifies the very best summaries.
• This can be achieved by marking sure that you focus on only the points stated in
the wording of the question.
• One way of doing this is to make sure that you don’t include any irrelevant
comments: a generalised introductory paragraph is not necessary and simply
uses up unnecessary words.
• Lifting (or quoting) whole phrases or sentences from the original does not give a
clear indication that you have understood the text.
• A summary should be written using an objective, impersonal register; there is no
need to comment or to write in the first person – even if that is the way in which
the original has been written.

Objectives: To write in concise manner while still making sure that your writing makes sense.
Practising the
summary question
Task1- Read carefully the
report ‘Nightmare
Neighbours’ and then
answer these two summary
questions (50 words each).
They are similar style
questions what you will
find in Paper

a) Summarise the
problems caused by
neighbours mentioned
in the passage.
b) Summarise the advice
given about how to deal
with these problems.
Objectives: To write in concise manner while still making sure that your writing makes sense.
Practising the
summary question
Write a summary of what the
passage tells you about what
the writer saw from his balloon
flight and his thoughts and
feelings about the experience.
You must use continuous
writing (not note form) and use
your own words as far as
possible.
Your summary should include
all the points in your notes and
must be 100-150 words.
Up to 5 marks are available for
the quality of your writing.

Objectives: To write in concise manner while still making sure that your writing makes sense.
Task 2- What does the passage tell you about what the writer
saw from his balloon flight and his thoughts and feelings about
the experience.
1.
2.
10 minutes
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.

1. End
2.
3.
4.
5.

Objectives: To write in concise manner while still making sure that your writing makes sense.
Task 2- What does the passage tell you about what the writer
saw from his balloon flight and his thoughts and feelings about
the experience.

10 minutes

End

Objectives: To write in concise manner while still making sure that your writing makes sense.
Practising the
summary question
Write a summary of what the
passage tells you about what
the writer saw from his balloon
flight and his thoughts and
feelings about the experience.
You must use continuous
writing (not note form) and use
your own words as far as
possible.
Your summary should include
all the points in your notes and
must be 100-150 words.
Up to 5 marks are available for
the quality of your writing.

Objectives: To write in concise manner while still making sure that your writing makes sense.
Objectives: To write in concise manner while still making sure that your writing makes sense.

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