This comprehensive teaching resource focuses on writing a summary of a newspaper article and equips students with academic writing, summarizing, and reading comprehension skills. It includes detailed instruction on main idea identification, key point selection, paraphrasing, formal tone, coherence, and structure. Students also practice using reporting verbs, present tense, and the third-person perspective.
With 4 structured info pages, this resource teaches how to distinguish relevant details, avoid plagiarism, and write clearly and objectively. The summary also guides students through text organization, bias-free language, concision, transitional phrases, and editing strategies.
The material covers essential subtopics such as summary formatting, tone consistency, logical flow, headline analysis, article types, and language register. Included are detailed exercises with solutions: a large bullet-point summary, comprehension, gap-fill, matching, a technical term task, true/false statements, a cloze text, and a creative task.
Ideal for English teachers, exam preparation, reading-to-writing instruction, and functional writing in intermediate to upper-intermediate ESL/EFL classrooms. Best suited for secondary school students (grades 8–10) and for developing media literacy, critical reading, and summarization skills across various English curriculums.
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