Academic English Workshop 0910s10 Paraphrasing Skills

CC0040

academic English workshops 2009-2010 Session 10– Paraphrasing Skills

Wience Lai

[email protected] 3746-0170 HHB 1635

Part A: Diagnostic Test

Exercise A1: Read the above selection and circle the letter of the title that best describes the selection. A. Halloween and Celtic tradition B. The Origin of Halloween C. Similarity between Halloween and the Hungry Ghost Festival

B. The Origin of Halloween

Part B: paraphrasing Skills Review Step 1: Take a few minutes to preview the work. Step 2: Read the work through the first time. Mark areas (ideas) that seem important. Step 3: Re-read the important areas (ideas). Step 4: Take notes on the material. Substitute synonyms into the original work and alter the sentence structure. Step 5: Draft a paraphrase. Make sure the paraphrase retains all the ideas of the original

To protect themselves from the wandering evil spirits, the Celts would put on masks and costumes so as to frighten the harmful spirits away. In a way, Halloween resembles the Hungry Ghost Festival in traditional Chinese culture that the Chinese maintain that the gate of hell will be loosened in the seventh month of the year and the spirits, both good and bad, will pass through to the human world.

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