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Lesson 2 Hiroshima the “Liveliest City in Japan Jacques Danvoir Aims of the Lesson How to paraphrase Background information Some useful vocabulary and expressions News writing Paraphrase: Write it in Your Own Words A paraphrase is... your own rendition 翻译 of essential information and ideas expressed by someone else, presented in a new form. one legitimate way when accompanied by accurate documentation to borrow from a source. a more detailed restatement than a summary, which focuses concisely on a single main idea. Paraphrasing is a valuable skill because... it is better than quoting information from an undistinguished passage. it helps you control the temptation to quote too much. the mental process required for successful paraphrasing helps you to grasp the full meaning of the original. paraphrase is not only to change a couple of words. That is plagiarize , but change the structure. When to paraphrase? Some set idiomatic or slang expressions When the structure gives rise to difficulty in comprehension or when the approach is foreign to Chinese students Ungrammatical statements and ellipses In dialogues The real intention of the author is implied When a sentence is long and involved. A figure of speech is used Bargaining is the order of the day Lesson 1 You will act, during any temporary incapacity of mine, as Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, under the authority invested in me by the North Atlantic Council. The Memoirs of Montgomery How much do people give you? … one bloke gave me fifty. He knew that I knew that he guessed that I had guessed “Mister Williams’ was Bill Stephenson. … each day of suffering that helps to free me from earthly cares… Lesson 2 Jennie: Can you tell me who this pianist is socially? Bob: Who was Beethoven socially? Jennie: Well, I’ve forgotten… When railroads began drying up the demand for steamboat pilots… Mark Twain left the river country. Lesson 9 The Third World, controlling a block vote known as the ‘Group