Tuesday, October 8, 2013

I read a newspaper article and i would like you please to give me a summary of that article "Rental property splits...

I am assuming from your syntax that you are an ELL
student?  At any rate, are you having trouble understanding the text, or understanding
how to complete a summary?


Here is a quick and simple way
to complete a summary it is called Somebody, Wanted, But, So,
Then.


For this article it would look like
this:


Somebody-Mr.
Defrietas


Wanted- wants to rent out his newly and
expensively remodeled home.


But- Mr. Desousa lives next
door and does not approve of the comings and goings of the
renters.


So- Mr. Desousa has been petitioning City Hall to
change the laws so that the renting will be illegal.


Then-
This article only presents a problem with no solution.  Normally, a solution to the
problem would go here.


The final summary would
say:


Mr. Defrietas wants to rent out his newly and
expensively remodeled home.  Mr. Desousa lives next door and does not approve of the
comings and goings of the renters.  Mr. Desousa has been petitioning City Hall to change
the laws so that the renting would be illegal.


You could
also add any other ideas you think are important to understanding the article.  This is
a very simple way to complete a summary, but I fear that it might not help you much if
you are having difficulty understanding the text.  This strategy works well with
narrative stories but might not work as well with informational pieces.  This article
just happened to kind of fit.

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