Lesson 16 - Summarizing

Summarizing
               >  A summarizing is a brief, accurate restatement of a speaker's or a writer's words; it extracts the meat from all details and ideas contained in the material. it requires clear thinking and high reading ability. one must be able to understand the ideas that he reads and then be able to judge their relative importance.

                    Patience in summarizing will improve your thinking, speaking, and writing. Skill summarizing will help you to be more efficient in studying, preparing reports, taking notes, and writing tests.

Guides for making a Summary:

1. As you read or listen, select what you think are important ideas.
2. In your own words, relate accurately each main idea.
3. Omit ideas that are not important.
4. Be brief. Combine two or more related ideas into one sentence. Often you can do so by reducing sentences to words, phrases or clauses.
5. Study your summary to make sure that all necessary ideas have been included and all unnecessary ones omitted.
6. the summary may approximately be one third of the original.


Exercise 1 - Write a summary paragraph of a news story. The questions that follow the selection will help you.


                                                        CB to Issue ₱2 Coin This year

                                  The Central Bank announced yesterday it till start issuing  ₱2 coins this year to gradually replace the ₱2 banknotes in circulation.
                                   The CB said printing of the ₱2 banknotes will be gradually discontinued.
                                   The decision to replace the banknotes with coins was prompted by the growing demands for banknotes, which is increasing at the rate of 10 per cent annually.
                                    The bank said its printing plant machinery may not be able to supply the entire banknote requirements of the country even if it operates on two shifts daily with overtime on Saturday.
                                    For this year alone, the CB cash department, has ordered 675 million pieces of banknotes of various denominations, of which 245 million or 36.3 per cent are ₱2 banknotes.
                                    Another reason for shifting to ₱2 coins is that they last 25 to 30 years while banknotes last only 8-10 months.


Source: Bulletin Today, January 30, 1983



Questions:

1. What will the Central Bank start issuing this year? Why?
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2. What is another reason for issuing 2-peso coins?
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