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     EXERCISE 1. Here are some passages from a story about                   skin; my good old pagan mother, my confiding French-Indian father. In
an Indian girl Esther, who lived in a mission camp. Summarize                a second all the care, the hollow love he had given me since my child-
them using the steps below, limit your summary to 25–30 words                hood, were as things that never existed. I hated that old mission priest
                                                                             as I hated his white man’s hell.
      To summarize, follow these steps:
                                                                                    Follow-up In small groups, share summaries by exchanging
      Â Read the passage several times.
                                                                             papers. Did your classmates choose the same details that you did?
      Â Decide on the essential points; write down key words and
         expressions that remind you of these essential points. (These
                                                                                   EXERCISE 2. Summarizing a newspaper column
         may come from the text or from you.)
      Â Expand your key words into a sentence or two. You can                      Here is the example of summarizing a bigger article
         write in the third person (she, he, for example) even if the
         passage is in the first person (I).                                                               Language
                                                                                     When we talk about learning a language like English, Japanese
       (1) My childhood recollections rushed upon me, devoured me. I         or Spanish, we speak and think as though the language in question
left the store in a strange, calm frenzy, and going rapidly to the mission   were a fixed unchanging thing. We expect to learn it as we learned ge-
house I confronted my Father Paul and demanded to be allowed to go           ometry or how to ride a bicycle – systematically, and with clear ulti-
«home”, if only for a day. He received the request with the same re-         mate success. Many people subsequently give up when they discover
fusal and the same gentle sigh that I had so often been greeted with, but    just what a misconception this is. They have in fact embarked on an
this time the desire, the smoke-tan, the heart-ache , never lessened.        activity that could last the rest of their lives. The experience makes
                                                                             them realize that they are not only going to have to work very hard in-
      Key words                                                              deed if they want to succeed, but also that they are – in many cases –
      homesickness came upon Esther                                          barely masters of the language they call their own mother tongue.
      demanded to go home                                                            Studying any language is, in, fact, an endless voyage. Each of
      F. Paul refused                                                        thousands of languages currently used in the world is a complex affair.
      desire remained                                                        Many languages do have a standard form – particularly on paper – and
       Summary                                                               this is what we learn, but they probably also have a variety of regional
                                                                             dialects and social styles, and many are the product of the historical
       The homesickness Esther felt was so strong that she demanded to go    mingling of other languages. The English language is just such a hy-
   home, but Father Paul refused. Her homesickness remained as strong as
                                                                             brid. It began its career just under two thousand years ago as a form of
   before. (25 words)
                                                                             ancient German, collided with a special kind of old French, was sub-
                                                                             jected to several waves of Latin and a flood of Greek , and since then
      Sample answer for Exercise 1, passage 1                                has acquired bits and pieces of every other language that its users have
      (2) I listened, sitting like one frozen. Could those words have        ever been in contact with.
been uttered by my venerable teacher, by him whom I revered as I                     A second common misconception about language is that words
would one of the saints in his own black book? Ah, there was no mis-         have fixed and clear meanings. That is – fortunately or unfortunately –
taking it. My white father, my life-long friend who pretended to love        far from true. Take even the apparently simple and specific English
me, to care for my happiness, was urging the man I worshiped to forget       word «man». It seems clear enough; it refers to «an adult male human
me, to marry with the factor’s daughter – because of what? Of my red
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