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Learning to learn (Units 11 and 12)

Summarising

A summary is a short version of a longer text. It should be written in your own words and
should express the basic ideas of the original text.
Being able to write a summary is an important skill – it helps you understand what a text is
really about, and it’s a skill that will also help you in your own writing.
To prepare a summary, first read the original text and ask yourself these questions, ‘What is the

text about and what does the author want to communicate?’

Tips Remember! When you summarise a text you should:
1 Make the summary shorter than the original text.
2 Miss out some of the information in the original text.
3 Write in your own words.

e Son Doong Cave
The huge Hang Son Doong (Mountain River
The huge Hang Son Doong (Mountain River
Cave) in Vietnam is the largest known cave in
the world. It was rst discovered accidentally
by a Vietnamese farmer called Ho Khanh,
when he was a child. He used the place to
hide from bombs during the Vietnam war.
Local people didn’t want to explore the cave,
because they were frightened by the strange
whistling sound made by an underground
river.
Then, in 2009, a group of scientists from the
British Cave Research Association spent four
days exploring the cave. They were eventually
stopped when they came to an enormous
wall - the scientists named it the Great Wall of
Vietnam! The scientists say that the Son Doong is ve times larger than the cave which people previously thought
was the largest in Vietnam. The biggest ‘room’ in Son Doong is more than ve kilometres long, 200 metres high
and 150 metres wide – in fact it is big enough to put a 40-storey skyscraper inside! There is even enough space
in it for a small jungle habitat and a lake. An exit from the cave was found in 2010. The cave is a fascinating
place, and scientists have discovered some totally new types of plant around Son Doong’s waterfalls.
The cave will be open for guided tours in 2014, but they will cost €2,200!

1 Read the text and underline all the essential information.

2 Write a list of the words that you underlined.

3 Now use your list to write a few short sentences in your own words to sum up the

passage.

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