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Unit 6
Unit 6
At one with nature
Writing a summary
To learn about the habit of the British drinking fruit and herbal teas.
To write a summary of the passage about fruit and herbal teas.
Read the passage and underline the topic sentence of each paragraph.
Para 1
British people love to make tea with fruit and herbs. With pleasant flavours and scents, and coming in a variety of colours, fruit and herbal teas make a nice change to traditional teas. Many people grow their very own tea gardens, in which they plant easy-to-grow herbs such as mint and lemongrass.
Para 2
Flavours such as lemon and ginger have long been popular in the UK. However, recent years have seen more and more unusual flavours come onto the market. Fruit teas now include mango, strawberry, apple and pear. Herbal teas include blackberry leaf and dandelion.
Para 3
Herbal tea has various health benefits. Many people enjoy herbal tea because it can have a positive effect on energy levels. If you need a good night’s sleep, choose a tea that helps you relax. If you haven’t been feeling very well, drink some ginger tea to give your immune system a helping hand. Mint tea, meanwhile, is good for digestion.
Now make notes under the heading.
Fruit and herbal teas
Their popularity
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Unusual flavours
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Health benefits
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Many people grow their very own tea gardens with easy-to-grow herbs.
mango, strawberry, apple, pear, blackberry leaf and dandelion
It can help people relax. It can help people’s immune systems. It can be good for digestion.
Write a summary of the passage. Use the notes in Activity 5 to help you.
What is a summary
It is a short, but thorough and objective restatement of the main idea and key points of a passage. A summary may also mention some of the examples the author used to illustrate key points.
Learning to learn
When writing a summary, don’t just combine all the topic sentences. Instead, reconstruct the key information to make the paragraph coherent (连贯的), concise (简洁的) and natural.
Some hints for writing a summary:
1. Concentrate on main ideas and omit examples, details, and minor support.
2. The summary should be all in your own words.
3. Do not include your own opinion in the summary.
4. Write in the present tense.
5. Introduce the author or title of the work in the opening sentence of your summary.
6. Summary writing is an exercise in compression (压缩). In writing a summary, you may: omit the details or categorize them; reduce the examples; simplify the description; eliminate all repetitions (减少重复).
Examples:
▲His courage in battle might without exaggeration be called lion-like.
→He was very brave in battle.
▲John fell into the river and, before help could reach him, he sank.
→John was drowned in the river.
▲He was hard up for money and was being pressed by his creditor.
→He was in financial difficulties.
Pay attention to the expression in red that connect sentences to make the passage coherent and the sentence structures in blue.
British people love to make tea with fruit and herb. Such a habit is so popular that many people plant easy-to-grow herbs in their own tea gardens. There are many flavours of fruit and herbal teas, including traditional lemon and ginger, as well as many unusual flavours such as mango, strawberry, apple, pear, blackberry leaf and dandelion. Aside from the variety of flavours, herbal tea also has various health benefits. Some can help people relax, and some, like ginger tea, are good for the immune system, while others, such as mint tea, are beneficial for digestion.
Checklist
1. Examples, details, and minor support omitted
2. Your ideas included
3. Plagiarize (抄袭)
4. Important parts left out
5. Any grammar, spelling, or punctuation mistakes
Share your summary with the class.
To write a summary, we should:
combine all the topic sentences
reconstruct the key information
make the paragraph coherent, concise and natural
Check your summary and modify it.
Review what you have learned in the unit.