SUMMARISING AND PARAPHRASING

A3
passage 1:

According to David Crystal, it was the dominance of the Romans over those they ruled over and not their strength in numbers that made Latin the international language during the Roman empire.

passage 2:

In mind of the opposing public, the new line of reactors is expected to operate with less radioactive pollution while not compromising on its efficiency. Keeping prices low in mind, these reactors should also feature safety mechanisms that are less complex to troubleshoot in the case of an accident (Butler, 2004).

B3

Summary 1:

Sociologists use various quality-of-life indicators to aid in their research on families of opposite ends of the income spectrum (Kendall, 2004).

Summary 2:

The establishment of an international language is not a result of it being spoken by the majority of a population but rather by the dominance and influence of those who do.


C1

reporting verb choices:

1. allege
2. assert
3. Believe
4. claim
5. state

C2

Summary: Children conceived via assisted reproductive technology are more likely to be plagued with obesity, hypertension and Type 2 diabetes later in life.

Author: Moisse

Date: 2010

C3

passage 1:

Lester (1976) asserts that Students should only make a limited amount of notes in direct quotation in order to help minimize the amount of quotes used.

passage 2:

Purdue Online Writing Lab (2013) is certain that While the first half of the year has been profitable, the next six months are not expected to be as lucrative.

Jovyn Yeo

Jocelyn Yew

Elaine Lau Jia Qi

My English Language Learning Journey.

Everything started only when I am back to Singapore.

Although being a Singaporean, I grew up and studied in Malaysia. I had my education in a Chinese Primary School and a Chinese Independent High School, which thus gives rise to the reason I rarely spoke Chinese before I was 19. Every subject was taught in Chinese, everybody speaks Chinese and actually speaking English will most likely be treated as an alien there. Therefore, we did not have or to be said that did not even want to even if we had chances to speak English.

When I was back to Singapore in 19 for my further education, I faced my biggest ever quandary. I did not expect such a profound English being used in lectures and everyone has such a flair of English that I could not really get what is the whole world trying to tell me. Then I decided not to let the disadvantage of not mastering English to affect my journey to make friends and to convey my ideas and thoughts coherently to others.

I told all my friends whatever amusing reasons for your desire to speak Chinese with me, no, please speak English. Of course, at the very beginning, it was very hard for me to switch my mind from Chinese to English thus I kept stammering. I read online articles that are written in English instead of Chinese articles and I put an effort to make all my notes and my annotations in English. Various efforts I tried to improve and could be said that I have exhausted all means to accelerate my English learning journey.

Although I am still not handling with English very well, but I do find a very different me compared to 6 months ago, I can now carry out a conversation in English confidently and I am confident that the other party can get the whole idea I am trying to say. I will still be persistent and as enthusiastic as I can in learning English, hoping that one day I am one of the people that have a flair for English.