PARAPHRASING means . . .

To express someone else’s ideas in our own words means . . .

Your own interpretation of important information and ideas expressed by someone else, presented in a new way using your own words.

Read the passage below and choose the best paraphrase/summary:

Thanks to the efforts of volunteers, people in Sauri, Kenya, have much better lives today than in years past. Their hospital now has a generator and running water, and it provides free medications for diseases that are widespread in the community. Cases of malaria have declined as people have been given mosquito nets for beds.

David’s mother was very kind - very much like our own mothers. We thought Pampanga mothers must be different. But she was not. She was very fond of David. She said she was glad he had found new playmates. She wanted David to be happy. She thanks us for being nice to him. And we felt rather guilty of the way we had treated David at the beginning of the school year. PLS PARAPHRASE.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death. It not only gives us fortitude to bear pain, but teaches us at every step the precarious tenure on which we hold our present being. Sedentary and studious men are the most apprehensive on this score.Dr. John was an instance in point. A few years seemed to him soon over, compared with those sweeping contemplations on time and infinity with which he had been used to pose himself. In the still life of a man of letters there was no obvious reason for a change. He might sit in an arm chair and pour out cups of tea to all eternity would it had been possible for him to do so. The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to get a just value on life. If we mere wish to continue on the scene to indulge our head-strong humour and tormenting passions, we had better be gone at once; and if we only cherish a fondness for existence according to the good we desire from it, the pang we feel at parting which it will not be very server.

. Suggest a suitable title for the passage.

What type of people are afraid of death and why?

How can we get rid of the fear of death?

. What idea do you form about Dr Johnson from this passage?

WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THE WORD SEDENTARY?

DREAD OF DEATH MEANS?

APPREHENSIVE MEANS?

CHOOSE THE BEST PRECIS FOR THE PASSAGE

It is an ant, you wonder, or a termite? Ants resemble termites, but they are quite different and can be easily distinguished. In contrast to termites, ants are usually dark in color, are hard bodied, and have contrition between the thorax and abdomen. Termites are light in color and shed their wings. Flying ants do not shed their wings. Also, ants and termites belong to different orders.

It is beginning to get dark We were not still home yet. I bet Dad is going to be mad at us, I thought. I yelled at my brother to ride his bike faster, but it was difficult to ride bikes uphill. I was so tired that every muscle in my legs were burning. My brother finally got off his bike and sat down. I stopped and went back to help him . Suddenly there was a car coming toward us. I could see headlights. It was Dad. He had come to look for us, since we were so late getting home. I knew I was going to get into trouble, but at least we were safe. Dad picked us up and took us home.

Choose the best paraphrase of each of the following. ” In short, adaptation is an ubiquitous social institution in American society, creating invisible relationships with biological and adoptive kin that touch far more people than we imagine.”

“While raising a family is inherently stressful, adaptation is filled with additional tensions that are unique to the adoptive relationship”.

Which of the following is the best possible paraphrase of this statement? We were able to save the day thanks to teamwork and innovative thinking.

DO YOU THINK YOU GONNA GET A PERFECT SCORE ON THIS LEARNING TASK?