Understanding paraphrasing

Understanding paraphrasing

Look at the statements . What do they mean ? Do you agree with them ?

• I have not failed. I have simply found ten thousand ways that won't work. (Thomas Edison)

• Failure is the key to success: each mistake teaches us something ( Morihei Ueshiba)

What Is A Paraphrase?

In the most simple terms, paraphrasing is altering the wording used by someone else into your own words. The way that this is achieved is by rewriting the text with completely different words and phrases whilst keeping the original meaning intact. It is vital that when you paraphrase anything the original meaning is kept, and the key points are still acknowledged.

Read paragraph 1 of the article.

The underlined words or phrases are paraphrased later in the the paragraph.

Collocations

Collocation is a group of two or more words that like to hang out together. 

These collocations are taken from the article. In your own words, what do you think they mean ?

Make collocations

Then complete the questions about work and study with the collocations made

Multiple Select

Job

• employees

• creatively

• risks

• satisfaction

• the rules

Multiple Select

take

• employees

• creatively

• risks

• job

• the rules

Multiple Select

obey/follow

• employees

• creatively

• risks

• job

• the rules

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temporary

• employees

• creatively

• risks

• job

• the rules

Multiple Select

supervise

• employees

• creatively

• risks

• job

• the rules

Multiple Select

think

• employees

• creatively

• risks

• job

• the rules

Fill in the Blanks

1 Which is more important - a good salary or a/an / -

?

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2 At work, is it better to obey the rules , or to

?

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3- Have you ever had a job where you had to ____ other _____ ? Did you like the responsability?

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4 Have you ever had a

? What was it ? Did you want it to become permanent?

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6 Would you like a job where you had to come up with new ideas,or one where you simply

?

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6 Do you find it easy to

and come up with new ideas? How do you do it ?