How to write a summary. STEP 1 READ YOUR INSTRUCTIONS • Take your highlighter out and highlight all the important phrases in your instructions. • This will help you ensure that you followed all the instructions given to you. • You can tick off these phrases as you complete them. QUESTION 2: SUMMARISE IN YOUR OWN WORDS Read the Data collected by Dolly Youth Monitor (Text C). Summarise 7 facts one should know about teenagers in a paragraph. NOTE: 1. Your summary should include SEVEN points and NOT exceed 90 words. 2. You must write a fluent paragraph. 3. Indicate your word count at the end of your summary. STEP 2 READ YOUR TEXT • Read your text to understand what it is about. •DO NOT read to extract the facts yet. Must know facts about teens! As director of Parenting Ideas, I’ve been fortunate enough to be involved in the interpretation and presentation of the data to various groups for two Dolly Youth Monitor surveys. Based on the up-to-date insights provided by the survey, here are a few things you should know as an educator or parent involved with teenagers today. Family is very important to teenagers but the thing they can’t live without is their phone. The number of teens with smartphones has doubled in two years. 80 percent of teenagers now have a smartphone. Bullying is still one of the biggest concerns for young people. Online bullying of teenage girls has increased massively in two years. In 2011, 9% said they’d been bullied. In 2013 it is 36%. Most bullying of boys occurs at school. 74% of teenage boys who are bullied say their bullying happens at school, while bullying of girls is shared more equally between school (55%) and online (43%). The online nature of bullying magnifies the impact of the bullying as everyone can see what’s happening. Hyper-networking drives teen life … and most of it is online. One in two teenagers feels constant pressure to keep up-to-date with social media. If they don’t keep up they may miss out on invitations to parties, knowing what’s going on, gossip and the latest trends. Teens are a lot smarter about using Facebook than two years ago. They have fewer Facebook friends, and now are more likely to use Facebook to stay in contact with ‘real world’ friends rather than purely collecting ‘virtual’ friends and ‘likes’. They are safety conscious too. Only 4% of teens have a totally public profile, which means they are learning about the all-encompassing nature of Facebook. Teens today are uncertain about the future. Their biggest worry is getting a good job, followed by the need to make money and achieve financial security. This is perhaps due to the global financial crisis of 2008 and the resultant conservative approach to finances shown at home. www.parentingideas.com STEP 3 Draw a line through all the unnecessary information • Draw a line through all the questions in the text. • Draw a line through all the explanations in the text. • Refer back to the instructions to ensure that the facts fits with the question. Must know facts about teens! As director of Parenting Ideas, I’ve been fortunate enough to be involved in the interpretation and presentation of the data to various groups for two Dolly Youth Monitor surveys. Based on the up-to-date insights provided by the survey, here are a few things you should know as an educator or parent involved with teenagers today. Family is very important to teenagers but the thing they can’t live without is their phone. The number of teens with smartphones has doubled in two years. 80 percent of teenagers now have a smartphone. Bullying is still one of the biggest concerns for young people. Online bullying of teenage girls has increased massively in two years. In 2011, 9% said they’d been bullied. In 2013 it is 36%. Most bullying of boys occurs at school. 74% of teenage boys who are bullied say their bullying happens at school, while bullying of girls is shared more equally between school (55%) and online (43%). The online nature of bullying magnifies the impact of the bullying as everyone can see what’s happening. QUESTION: Hyper-networking drives teen life … and most of it is online. One in two teenagers feels constant pressure to keep up-to-date with social media. If they don’t keep up they may miss out on invitations to parties, knowing what’s going on, gossip and the latest trends. Summarise 7 facts one should know about teenagers… Teens are a lot smarter about using Facebook than two years ago. They have fewer Facebook friends, and now are more likely to use Facebook to stay in contact with ‘real world’ friends rather than purely collecting ‘virtual’ friends and ‘likes’. They are safety conscious too. Only 4% of teens have a totally public profile, which means they are learning about the all-encompassing nature of Facebook. Ask the question: Teens today are uncertain about the future. Their biggest worry is getting a good job, followed by the need to make money and achieve financial security. This is perhaps due to the global financial crisis of 2008 and the resultant conservative approach to finances shown at home. Is this a fact that we should know about teenagers? www.parentingideas.com STEP 4 DO YOUR PLANNING QUOTED WORDS OWN WORDS Write all the sentences that you did not draw a line through in this block. Do not change any words from the passage to this column. Change the sentence written in the quoted block, to your own words. Find synonyms for as many words as possible, and change the sentence from active voice to passive voice, or passive voice to active voice. QUOTED WORDS OWN WORDS Family is very important to teenagers, but the thing they can’t live without is their phone. Teenagers deem their family as extremely important, although they feel that they can’t live without their cellular phones. Bullying is still one of the biggest concerns for young people. Teenagers still feel that bullying is one of their biggest concerns. Most bullying of boys occurs at school. Boys are mostly bullied at school. …bullying of girls is shared more equally between school and online. Girls experience online bullying and bullying at school. Hyper-networking drives teen life. Teenagers are driven by hyper-networking. Teens are a lot smarter about using Facebook than two years ago. Today’s youth tends to make smarter decisions when it comes to Facebook than those of a few years ago. They are safety conscious too Teenagers tend to be more safety conscious on social media. Teens today are uncertain about the future. The future is still something that teenagers feel uncertain about Their biggest worry is getting a good job, followed by the need to make money and achieve financial security. A good job, the need to make money and financial security are things that teenagers worry about. STEP 5 WRITE YOUR PARAGRAPH • We identified 9 facts that you can use in your paragraph. • You are instructed to write down 7 facts. • Choose the 7 facts that you would prefer to use in your paragraph. • Write your 1, fluent paragraph. 1, FLUENT PARAGRAPH Teenagers deem their family as extremely important, although they feel that they can’t live without their cellular phones. They still feel that bullying is one of their biggest concerns: Boys are mostly bullied at school, whereas girls experience online bullying and bullying at school. Teenagers are driven by hyper-networking. Today’s youth tends to make smarter decisions when it comes to Facebook than those of a few years ago. They tend to be more safety conscious on social media. [79 WORDS] STEP 6 Make sure you did everything expected of you. • Go back to your instructions and tick off everything that you did. • Make sure that everything you highlighted is ticked off.
