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Group Note Making and Joint Rewriting

Watch the video below for instructions on how to fill in the table!

GROUP WORK. Read the following table. The first column presents the structure of the
passage on builders renovating a kitchen in the wrong house. The second column shows the
sentences form the passage that corresponds to the text structure. In the third column,
write the keywords you find in the sentences. In the fourth column, paraphrase the
sentences. Follow the example given in number 1.

Structure Sentence Keywords Joint Rewriting
woman, surprised, On arriving home, a
A woman was more than surprised when she discovered, woman was very
came home and discovered a group of builders builders, surprised to see some
in her house doing renovations in her kitchen. renovations, unknown builders
1. Introduction kitchen redecorating her kitchen.
She had no renovations planned, and even
stranger still, a similar occurrence happened

the previous year, when builders appeared in
her garden to undertake work unannounced.
Chloe Fountain could not understand that the
same "mistake" had happened again, The Daily
Star reports. 57
She was questioning why it kept happening.
2. Sequence of The TikToker opened the door and stepped in to
Events find a long "red carpet" in the corridor.
Chloe looked around and found four builders in
her kitchen drilling on the kitchen worktops.

She said her old worktops were wooden slates
and now she's got an upgrade – granite
Viewers doubted that it was a mistake and
suggested that the builders wouldn't have
managed to make the changes because of the
layouts in different homes.
Chloe debunked the rumors and told Daily Star