Guiguinto National Vocational High ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND

School PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES

Using Various Techniques in

Summarizing a Variety of
Academic Text
LEARNING
At the end of the lesson,
COMPETENCIES learners should be able to:

Summarizes the
01 content of an
academic text

Write a summary
02 of text in various
disciplines
 What is a
SUMMARY
?
Summary is a brief statement
or restatement of main points.
Summary has (1)To reproduce the
main idea and the key
two aims: points of a text, and

(2) To restate these in as

few words as possible.
Summary helps students learn to
identify key ideas of a text
and ignore irrelevant information.
(7) Techniques to
Summarize
01 Read the original passage or
text very carefully.

02 Highlight or underline what you

take to be the main point of the
original text, or make notes in the
margins or on another sheet of
paper.
03 When summarizing an entire
essay, outline the writer’s
argument.

04 Now tell your audience what

the original source argued.
05 Ask the following framework
questions:

a. What is the main idea?

b. What are the crucial details

necessary for supporting the
ideas?
06 Use key words or phrases to
identify the main points from the
text.
07 You can also summarize a
reading text by getting the main
events and arranging the events
in chronological order.
EXAMPLE Typhoon is powerful, twisting hurricane. It
begins high in the air, among the winds of a
giant storm cloud. People who have watched a
01 typhoon’s howling winds reach down from the
sky have said it’s the most frightening thing
they have ever seen. In some parts of the
Philippines, these tropical storms are called
cyclones.

Typhoons are frightening, powerful,

twisting hurricanes sometimes
02 called cyclones that start in giant
clouds.
EXAMPLE Tornadoes are not the only windstorms
that move through earth’s air. Dust
01 devils, hurricanes and typhoons all have
twisting winds. But these windstorms
differ from tornadoes in important
ways.

Dust devils, hurricanes and

typhoons also have twisting
02 winds, but they are different from
tornadoes.
DO YOU
HAVE ANY
QUESTION?
PERFORMANC
E TASK
LOOK FOR TWO (2)
NEWS ARTICLES
• News article related to agriculture, education, politics,
humanities and social science, science and technology,
business management, tourism, and sports.
• News articles should be dated from AUGUST 2022 up to
the present.
• Apply the techniques in summarizing text in the two
articles you found.
• Write your summary in a short bond paper and attached
the copy of your news articles.
THANK YOU
FOR
LISTENING!