The document provides tips for extracting ideas from a text for a personal response. It advises to understand the basic idea, highlight important words and phrases, ask questions about them, select the three or four most interesting points, and organize them with a logical flow from the first to last point. For example, discussing how youth unemployment is special because it impacts young people's hopes for the future and sense of progress, which could damage society if left unaddressed.

1. Extracting ideas For the Personal response

2. Let us imagine that this is the text given as the stimulus for the Personal Response. What would you pick out as useful to discuss ?

3. TIP 1 :- Check that you understand the basic idea of the text (A simple summary might look like this ... Unemployment is a problem, and youth unemployment is a big problem. Many young people will suffer. This could damage society.

4. TIP 2 :- Pick out by underlining / highlighting words or phrases which seem to you to be important

5. TIP 3 :- Think of questions to ask about these phrases. To start with, concentrate on the phrases that involve qualifiers (adjectives, adverbs, comparatives, superlatives, etc)

6. Tip 4 :- … THEN, ask questions about phrases involving nouns

7. So … you end up with something like this :- NOW ...

8. TIP 5 :- … select the three or four points that seem to you the most interesting, and put them into some sort of order. Like this :-

9. TIP 6 :- Make sure that your order has a logic to it – it is clear why you move from the first idea to the second … and so on. Like this simple example ... Youth unemployment is special (A) because young people think about their future … … and a 'real future' means (B) that people need hope, need to think that they're going somewhere positive … … and if, in both developed & undeveloped countries (C), young people don't have any hope for the future … … they won't give a damn about anything any more, and so society will fall to pieces (D)...