Reading Strategy Summarising

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 3

Summary

Lesson 

• Starter
• Warming up
• How to write a good summary
• Practise at your own level
• Practise linking words
• Homework: read novel of your choice

Objective of this lesson

At the end of this lesson:

• I will be able to identify the main idea of a text
• I will be able to write a good summary
• I will be able to explain why summarising is a useful task
• I will have practised with linking words

Starter

• Listen to this story
  
• Write down the key words/ phrases 
• Be ready to present to class what the main events are in the story

Warming up

• 5 minutes
• Read warming up text
• Underline key words and phrases
• Answer question 1 and 2

Name 1 or 2 things that you've learned from watching the video

Practise at your own level

• 15 minutes
• Choose a text at your level: beginners, intermediate, advanced
• Undeline important words/phrases
• Write down main points
• Write down irrelivant points
• Write summary
• Give neighbour tops and tips on their summary

Practise with linking words

• Linking words are words that connect ideas, senteces and paragraphs in text
  
• They clearify the relation between ideas, sentences and paragraphs
  
• Practise on this site (nr 53-70)
• http://www.tolearnenglish.com/cgi2/myexam/liaison.php?liaison=_connecteur_

Why is summarising useful?