EASY SUMMARY SERIES: CONTENT COMPASS II

● Know your keywords and identify specific information

STEPS FEELING TAKING/DOING ACTION

PROBLEM/CHALLENGE OVERCOMING PROBLEM
A Choose correct keywords for the following summary points.
To earn some extra money, she tutored music students.
Then, she prepared a monthly budget.
Feeling He was thrilled to be selected as a new member of the
team.
She knew her family won’t be able to support her
financially.
He had no friends to practice English with.

He took the job hoping that it would change his life.

Pak Abu worried that his son could not come home in time.

She practiced football everyday to hone her skills.

He decided to pursue a degree in local university.

B Circle the odd one out.

Steps for better Teenage problems Feelings What did he do to save
health the rainforest
Exercise regularly Lack of self confidence Worry Campaign

Drink water Bad time management Proud Went to Spain for a

holiday

Study hard Social problem Sad Lodge police report

Get enough sleep Social media Expensive Write a book

EASYSUMMARY: CONTENT COMPASS
The secret to find summary points is to find keywords in the question that connect you
to keywords in the text.
● Keywords in the question tell you which points you should
look for.
● Keywords in the text help you to recognize the points.

A Keywords in the questions and what they mean

Problems/challenges Situation that causes problem to someone
Steps A process starting from first, second, until the end.
Actions/effort Something that someone does
Solution Something that someone does to solve a problem
Feelings Emotion
Reasons Answer the ‘why’ question

B Keywords in the text.

Problems Steps Action Solution feelings Reason

Challenges How to Do/does Result Emotion Why
Difficult Firstly, Did Quick fix Felt Explanation
Cannot Next, Activity Key Sad Because
Fail Then, Behaviour Answer Excited Cause
Worry Lastly, Initiative Way out Thrilled Justify
Danger Stages logic

Practice 1
Underline keywords in the summary question below.

Melissa faced problems when she was paragliding on March 2 nd

Based on the passage, write a summary on:

● the problem she faced

● what she did to try to overcome this problem
SUMMARY ANALYSIS

Year Summary Summary Question Pronoun

statement reference

2012 ● Amir’s effort to achieve success in He

football after he became a reserve player
● How he surprised his coach on the day of
the important match
2013 ● What the rescuer did to save him He
2014 ● The challenges they faced when The writer
exploring the caves (he)
2015 In the end, ● Steps taken by the team to make the The writer
Crystal’s cub twins cubs breathe
I = he
were saved.

2016 Arvind had an ● Why Arvin attracted to Sneha They (Arvin

interesting and Sneha)
● What he did as a result of meeting her
encounter with
Sneha during
the train
journey.
2017 Maria and ● What they did which improve their She and her
Jeffrey lifestyle. husband (he)
decided to
stop watching
television.
2018 ● What Sarah did to become one of the Sarah and
best female surfers her friends
-
● The challenges Sarah experience
2019 Melissa faced ● The problem she faced and She
problems
● What she did to try to overcome these
when she was
problems.
paragliding on
March 2nd.
PRACTICE 2

Read the passage below and answer the summary question

 Zaidi was apart from his
family for years when he