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Before you begin each exercise, read these instructions carefully. Read them each time you begin a new piece. They are very important.




How to work----Summary writing



Unit 1 contains twenty passages. You will be asked to write a summary of a part of each piece. In Unit 4 of Practice and Progress you were given the main points and asked to join them up. Connections were provided in the text. Now you will be expected to find the main points yourself and supply your own connections. The Comprehension questions which are given should be answered, in note form. Your notes should be very brief.



1 Read the passage two or three times. Make sure you understand it.

2 Read the instructions which will tell you where your summary should begin and end, and exactly what you will have to do.

3 Read again the part of the passage you will have to summarize.

4 Answer each of the Comprehension questions in note form to get your points.

5 You will find parentheses at the side of the questions. These show you how the answers might be joined to form sentences, but you will have to use your own joining words. You may ignore the parentheses if you wish to join the points in your own way.

6 When joining your points, you may refer to the passage if necessary, but try to use your own words as far as possible. Your answer should be in one paragraph.

7 Read through your work and correct your mistakes.

8 At the end of your summary, write the number of words that you have used. Remember that words like ‘the’, ‘a’, etc. count as single words. Words which are joined by a hyphen also count as single words. You may write fewer than 80 words, but you must not go over the word limit.



Example



Work through this example carefully and then try to do the exercises in Unit 1 in the same way.



Silent enemies



Few countries will admit officially that they employ spies. However, from time to time, a spy is caught and the public sometimes gets a glimpse of what is going on behind the political scenes. Spies are rarely shot these days. They are frequently tried and imprisoned. If a spy is important enough, he is sometimes handed back to an enemy country in exchange for an equally important spy whom the enemy have caught. Few people have the opportunity to witness such exchanges, for they are carried out in secret.

On cold winter morning on December 17th last year, a small blue car stopped on a bridge in a provincial town in northern Germany. Three men dressed in heavy black coats got out and stood on the bridge. While they waited there, they kept on looking over the side. Fifteen minutes later, a motor boat sailed past and drew up by the river bank. Three men got out of the boat and looked up at the bridge. The men on the bridge silently walked down the stone steps leading to the river bank. No words were spoken when they met the men from the boat. After a while, the motorboat moved off and three men returned to the bridge. Now, only two of them were wearing black coats. The third was dressed in a light grey jacket. Anyone who had been watching the scene might not have realized that two master spies had been exchanged on that cold winter morning.



Summary writing



In not more than 80 words describe what happened on the morning of December 17th from the time a small blue car stopped on a bridge. Do not include anything that is not in the last paragraph.



Answer these questions in note form to get your points:



1 Did the car stop or not?

2 How many men got out?

3 How were they dressed?

4 Where did they stand?

5 Where did they stand?

6 Did a motorboat appear or not?

7 Where did it stop?

8 Where did the men go?

9 Why did they go to the river bank?

10 Did the boat move off or not?

11 Who accompanied the men in black coats?

12 How was he dressed?

13 Did they return to the bridge or not?

14 Had two master spies been exchanged or not?



A possible answer



Points

1 Car stooped.

2 Three men got out.

3 Black coats.

4 Stood----bridge.

5 Looked over side.

6 Looked over side.

7 Stopped----river bank.

8 Men----down steps.

9 Met boat.

10 Boat moved off.

11 Man accompanied by others.

12 Grey jacket.

13 Returned----off.

14 Spies exchanged.



Summary writing



After the car stopped, three men in black coats got out and stood on the bridge. They kept looking over the side until a motorboat appeared. When it stopped by the river bank, the men on the bridge silently climbed down the stone steps to meet the men from the boat. As soon as the boat moved off, a man in a grey jacket accompanied by two men in black coats returned to the bridge. Two master spies had been exchanged.

(81 words)

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