Paraphrasing and Word Choices

Paraphrasing and Word Choices

by Poonyavi Saengmontri

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​ Paraphrasing     

​การกล่าวถึงความคิดผู้อื่นด้วยถ้อยคำและสไตล์ของเราเอง เหมือนกับการแปล แต่ไม่ใช่ว่าแปลจากภาษาหนึ่งไปเป็นอีกภาษาหนึ่ง แต่เป็นการแปลความคิดและสไตล์การเขียนของคนหนึ่งให้เป็นคำพูดและสไตล์การเขียนของเรา

​Let's do Pre-Test

Multiple Choice

Strong support gives enough evidence to support the claim?

• False
• True

Multiple Choice

What is the first thing you do before you start paraphrasing?

• Start writing

• Understand the text

• Record the source

Multiple Choice

Which is the BEST paraphrase of the following sentence?

Deserts cover one fifth of the surface of the Earth.

• Deserts cover one fifth of the Earth.

• One fifth of the Earth's surface is desert.

• Deserts cover one fifth of the Earth.

• Deserts cover more than half of the Earth's surface.

Multiple Choice

The last time I saw my cousin he was only five years old.

• I haven’t seen my cousin for five years.

• It is five years since I last saw my cousin

• The last time I saw my cousin was five years ago

• I haven’t seen my cousin since he was a 5 year old child.

Multiple Choice

Let me know if there is anything I can do to help you

• Do tell me when you need more help

• Are you sure you don’t need my help?

• How much help are you going to need?

• If I can be of any use to you,just say so

Multiple Choice

The rain had already started when I left the house

• It was raining even before I left the house

• The rain suddenly came on as I was leaving the house

• As soon as I left home it began to rain

• It didn’t start to rain heavily until I left the house

Multiple Choice

I enjoyed the film even though I had seen it before

• As I had seen the film before, I didn’t enjoy it

• I had seen the film before,but I still enjoyed it

• I saw the film and I enjoyed it a lot

• The film I have just seen was very enjoyable

Multiple Choice

She’d rather travel by train than go by air

• She prefers traveling by train to going by air.

• She prefers traveling by train to go by air.

• She prefers traveling by train than going by air.

• She prefers travel by train to going by air.

Multiple Choice

The news of their divorce caused us a big surprise.

• We knew they had got divorced but we were a little surprised.

• We were greatly surprised when we heard they had got divorced.

• They got divorced, which was surprising news.

• We were little surprised at the news of their divorce.

Multiple Choice

i like sports

• I like to do exercise

• Do exercise is important

• I enjoy athletics

Multiple Choice

He felt uneasy, but he didn't know why.

• guilty

• anxious

Multiple Choice

Her life spanned years of incredible change for women as they gained more rights than ever before.

• She has changed the mind set of people in the society on women.

• She lived through the exciting era of women's liberation.

End of the test!​

Let's see in the class!​