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I am able to interpret the purpose of some textual components

Level 2 with a high degree of precision.
I am able to use some reading strategies for different texts.
I am able to interpret the purpose of some textual components

Level 1 with relative precision.
I am able to use some reading strategies for some texts.

• Compare your opinions with those of your partner. Comment on why you
agree or disagree with her/his assessment.

16. Read each piece of information and its summary.
Composing notes. Summarizing and paraphrasing

Information

A language is much more than a means of
Text 1
communication; it is the vector of a way of thinking,
a culture, the depository of a people’s history, its

mythology, its creation myths, its music.
Summary
Text 1
An endangered language is one that is likely to
Text 2 myths and music.
become extinct in the near future. Many other
Language is a way of thinking, and
languages are no longer being learned by new
includes people’s culture, history,
generations of children or by new adult speakers;
Text 2
these languages will become extinct when their
Endangered languages are those
last speaker dies. children don’t learn them anymore.
that will become extinct because
The most extensive catalog of the world’s
Text 3 Ethnologue is a catalog of the
Text 3
languages, generally taken to be as authoritative
as any, is that of Ethnologue, whose detailed
session 6 list as of 2009 included 6,909 distinct languages. world’s languages. It lists 6909
distinct languages.

• With your teacher’s help, write a description of how the summaries above were
achieved in your notebook. Look at the example.
How it was done?

Text 1 Text 2 Text 3
In Text 1, we kept in mind that the key
words are in bold, we deleted information
that we didn’t think was important, and
used the information that was helpful to us.

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