White board april 23 3 e4

1. Paraphrasing:
You have to change 80% of the original text
(the remaining 20% account for
prepositions, articles and unchangeable
concepts)
1. Find synonyms
2. Change the order of the sentence
3. Change the type of Word: noun 
adjective.
Possessives + gerunds:
The idea is to replace long and tedious
sentences starting with or using “the fact
that” with something more fluent and
palatable 
The fact that Diego is wearing a tie today
doesn’t necessarily mean he has an
interview
Diego’s / his wearing a tie doesn’t
necessarily mean he has an interview today

2. My doing very well in the interview with
Lufthansa landed me an internship!!
The fact that Facebook literally sold our
data to outsiders is going to cost them
dearly
Their selling our data to outsiders…
Its selling
Facebook’s selling
Cause and effect:
To cause + because + due to normally
introduce a negative development
To make  doesn’t need a preposition
e.g. the new developments in Syria made
the peace process seem irrelevant
caused …+ to be irrelevant
To spur, trigger, spawn, result in, prompt,
spark…

3. Graph description
Pitfall
Pitfalls fraud
Setting robots against each other shows
the promise and many of the
______________________ of
autonomous technology