The document discusses summarizing text by reducing information to the essential ideas and main points. It explains that the main idea is the most important concept, and that summarizing involves identifying the topic sentence and supporting details while disregarding unimportant information. The process of summarizing is then simplified by focusing on the key ideas and condensing them into shorter statements. Examples of summarizing a paragraph are also provided.

1. Using Your Own Words…

2. Summarizing
Why do it?
To reduce information to
essential ideas in order to:
-Understand and learn
important information.

3. The Process…
(How to summarize? )
1- Identify main idea from TOPIC
SENTENCE .
2- Identify SUPPORTING DETAILS .
3- Disregard unimportant
information.
4- Simplify the important
information.

4. Focus on …
The main idea is the most
important information or
concept in a text or statement.
Not all information is equal:
some of it clearly is more
important than the rest.

5. Main Idea
Supporting Supporting Supporting
Detail Detail Detail

6. Topic Sentences…
The TOPIC SENTENCE is
usually the first sentence of
the paragraph. It gives the
reader

7. Summarizing
Let’s practice
One paragraph at a time…

8. Example of a paragraph: Topic sentence
 There are 2500 different kinds of palm trees, and
the most useful kinds are date palms.
Good date palms provide 400 kilos of dates every
year for 70 years. 2 supporting ideas
Dates are delicious and healthy, and you can keep
them longer than other fruit.
Apples and oranges are not good after a week in hot
weather, but dates are good for many weeks.
Unimportant information

9. The paragraph’s summary:
 The most important kind of palm
trees is the date palms. Because dates
are very tasty, good for the health, and
unlike other fruits they can be
conserved for long periods.

10. Now read the second
paragraph in your
students books page 96
and underline the main
idea and the supporting
details.

11. Now work in groups to
reorder the following
sentences to get a
coherent summary of the
second paragraph.

12.  He was the first person who crossed
the Atlantic ocean.
 He was the first explorer who sailed
towards the west to land on the East
Indies with the queen’s consent.
 Christopher Columbus was an
English explorer.

13. Well Done!!!!!!!
 Christopher Columbus was an
English explorer. He was the first
person who crossed the Atlantic
ocean. He was the first explorer who
sailed towards the west to land on
the East Indies with the queen’s
consent.

14. Thanks for attention