ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC
AND PROFESSIONAL
PURPOSES
OCTOBER 19, 2023
OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson the students should be able to:

define summary;

identify the main idea, key points and supporting details
in a variety of academic texts; and

create a summary of various academic texts.
CONTENT STANDARDS:
The learner acquires knowledge of appropriate
reading strategies for a better understanding of
academic texts.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS:
The learner produces a detailed abstract of
information gathered from the various academic
texts read.
ACTIVITY:
The class will be grouped into 5. A copy of the
activity will be distributed to the group. They will
rearrange the jumbled letters to form the word
being described in each item. The answers will be
given on the grid. When the group finish answering,
the highlighted letters will spell the topic that the
class will learn in the entire lesson.
CLUES:
ANALYSIS
 How
were you able to come up with the
answers to the activity?
 What
do you think are the importance of
those words in today’s lesson?
 Can
you cite instances that you have
utilized any of those words in your study of
the English language?
Answers:
1. Restatement
2. Outline
3. Comprehension
4. Main idea
5. Academic text
6. Supporting detail
7. Writing
8. Distilling
9. Essential
10. Argument
DISCUSSION OF THE LESSON:

A summary - a brief statement or restatement of main points.

Summarizing a text, or distilling its essential concepts into a paragraph or two, is
a useful study tool as well as good writing practice.

A summary has two aims:
(1) to
reproduce the main idea and the key points of a text and
(2) to
restate these in as few words as possible
Main idea - is what the text is about
Key points - are arguments or information that is used to support the main idea.
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may be developed or elaborated with supporting details.
SUMMARY should only include main ideas and key points, not supporting details.
REMEMBER summaries are not place for your opinions, background knowledge and
personal information.
Summaries
 can
range from two sentences to several pages.
 use
complete sentences to describe an author's
general points to your reader.
Do not quote extensively. If you quote, use
quotation marks and document the quotation. If
you fail to document the quotation, even one
word that the author used, you are plagiarizing
material.
Summarizing
 helps
students learn to identify key ideas of a text
and ignore irrelevant information.
 improves
students’ memory for what they read
and by extension comprehension.
 an
effective tool to self-evaluate what they
understood and what they do not.
One can develop reading comprehension and longterm retention of information. It is also
Here are some techniques on how we
summarize.
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Read the original passage or text very carefully.
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.
When summarizing an entire essay, outline the writer’s argument.
Now tell your audience what the original source argued.
Ask the following framework questions: a. What is the main idea? b.
What are the crucial details necessary for supporting the ideas?
Use key words or phrases to identify the main points from the text.
You can also summarize a reading text by getting the main events and
arranging the events in chronological order.
Example Paragraph 1:
A typhoon is powerful, twisting hurricane. It begins high
in the air, among the winds of a giant storm cloud.
People who have watched a 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.
 Sentence summary: Typhoons are frightening, powerful,
twisting hurricanes sometimes called cyclones that
start in giant clouds.

Example Paragraph :
 Tornadoes
are not the only windstorms that
move through earth’s air. Dust devils,
hurricanes and typhoons all have twisting
winds. But these windstorms differ from
tornadoes in important ways.
 Sentences summary: Dust devils, hurricanes
and typhoons also have twisting winds, but
they are different from tornadoes.
Do you have
any questions?
APPLICATION:
Directions: Read the passage carefully. Identify the main
idea, and encircle the letter of the correct answer.
Passage 1:
Politics is the process of making decisions that apply to
members of a group. It refers to achieving and exercising
positions of governance — organized control over a human
community, particularly a state. Furthermore, politics is
the study or practice of the distribution of power and
resources within a given community (this is usually a
hierarchically organized population) as well as the
interrelationship(s) between communities.
1. This paragraph is about…
a. politics as decision making.
b. governance.
c. politics definition.
Passage 2:
Governance is the act of governing or ruling. It is the set of
rules and laws framed by the government that are to be
implemented through the representatives of the state. The
difference between “government” and “governance” may
be clarified using an example of a business which is run by a
group of people.
2. This paragraph is about…
a. difference of governance and government.
b. governance as an act of governing or ruling.
c. the set of rules and laws framed by the government.
Passage 3:
The Judicial branch holds the power to settle controversies involving
rights that are legally demandable and enforceable. This branch
determines whether or not there has been a grave abuse of discretion
amounting to lack or excess of jurisdiction on the part and
instrumentality of the government. It is made up of a Supreme Court and
lower courts. The Constitution expressly grants the Supreme Court the
power of Judicial Review as the power to declare a treaty, international
or executive agreement, law, presidential decree, proclamation, order,
instruction, ordinance or regulation unconstitutional.
3. This paragraph is about…
a. constitution.
b. if there is a grave abuse of discretion amounting to lack or excess of
jurisdiction on the part and instrumentality of the government.
c. judicial branch that settle controversies.
Assignment:
Movie Nights Directions: Think of your favorite movie and make a five-sentence summary of it.
Write your answer on the space provided for. Refer to the rubric as your guide on how your
output will be evaluated.
Thank you very much for listening!
Ma’am REJ