Week 10 Revision

Choose the BEST paraphrase of this text:

Lionel Messi earns a whopping $39.6 million a year for playing striker for League 1's PSG team (Scholastic Book of World Records, 2011).

• Lionel Messi earns a whopping $39.6 million a year for playing striker for League 1's PSG team.

• According to Scholastic Book of World Records 2011, I think it is great that soccer player Lionel Messi earns a whopping $39.6 million a year for playing striker for League 1's PSG team!

• According to Scholastic Book of World Records, soccer player Lionel Messi makes over $39 million dollars annually. This impressive salary is from his work as a striker for League 1's PSG team (2011).

• Soccer player Lionel Messi earns a whopping $39.6 million a year for playing soccer as striker/winger for League 1's PSG team. Paris is the capital of France.

Paraphrase the phrase by putting it into your own words: harmless to pets

• nontoxic to animals

• damaging to dogs

• harmful to animals

• painless to pets

Changing every other word in a sentence means you have paraphrased well.

• True

• False

When do you have to cite your sources?

• We do not have to cite sources.

• Only if your teacher tells you to.

• Whenever you use information from an author or a reference source.

• Only when you have time.

How are paraphrasing and summarizing different?

• Paraphrasing is longer and more detailed.

• A summary uses your own words, but a paraphrase does not.

• Paraphrasing and summarizing are exactly the same.

• A summary is closest to the original quote.

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 more than half of the Earth's surface.

• Deserts cover one fifth of the Earth.

Which is the best paraphrase of the following sentence?

Dragonflies have six legs, but they can’t walk.

• Dragonflies have six legs but cannot walk, and I think that this is odd.

• Even though they have six legs, dragonflies can’t walk.

• Dragonflies have six legs.

Key terms can remain the same when paraphrasing.

• True

• False

There are far more people watching movies than people reading books.

Film is a lot …………………………. than books.

• more interesting

• more like

• less interesting

• less like

This is the first time the principal plays a guitar in front of all students.

The principal has …………………… played guitar in front of all students before.

• had never

• first time

• never

• been