Summary
1. The Title: As the title implies the article (text) under discussion…
2. The Source: This is an article published in the newspaper (magazine, book, textbook)…
3. The Author: The author of the text is …, a famous writer (journalist, scientist)…
4. The Idea: The idea of the text is to show (to prove, to underline, to convince)…
The object (purpose) of this paper is to present information on (to discuss, to describe, to show, to develop)…
The paper puts forward the idea…
5. The Subject: The subject of the paper is …(biology, sociology, forestry…)
The paper discusses some problems relating to (deals with some aspects, considers the problem of, presents the basic theory, provides information on, reviews the basic principals of)
The paper is concerned with (is devoted to)…
The article pays attention to…
The article reports that…
The key-note of the article is…
6. The Content: The text (article, story) starts with the fact (with the description of, with the characteristic of)…
The paper begins with a short discussion on (deals firstly with the problem of)
Such problems as … … … are considered.
Particular attention is given to …
The problem of … is analyzed in detail (is discussed in short).
The question of … is also mentioned.
After discussing… the author turns to…
Next (Further, Then) the author tries to (explains that)…
It must be emphasized that (should be noted that, is clear, is interesting to note that)
Then the author describes…
After that (next) the author touches upon the problem of… (deals with the fact)…
Besides the author stresses that…
Finally the author comes to the conclusion that …
The final paragraph states (describes, ends with)…
To sum up the author emphasizes (points out, admits) that…
To summarize all mentioned above it should be noted that …
7. Your attitude: The paper under discussion is of great theoretical and practical value for those who work in the field of …
My attitude to the text (article, story) is contradictory (complicated, simple). On the one hand I agree that …On the other hand I can’t agree that…
In my opinion (to my mind, I think)…
Finally I should give my own opinion, concerning…
The paper is interesting (not interesting, of (little) importance, (in)valuable, up to (out of) date, useful (useless)
I’ve learned a lot of interesting (important, new) facts (information) from the text (article, story) It makes us think of …
It gives us food for thoughts. It proves the idea (the theory, the point of view, the opinion)…
It can help us in self-education (in solving our problems). I’d like to cite the author (to make a quotation)
This text (article, story) can be useful for my future profession.
So in my opinion it is (not) worth reading.
That’s all I wanted to speak about.
Summary
1. The Title: As the title implies the article (text) under discussion…
2. The Source: This is an article published in the newspaper (magazine, book, textbook)…
3. The Author: The author of the text is …, a famous writer (journalist, scientist)…
4. The Idea: The idea of the text is to show (to prove, to underline, to convince)…
The object (purpose) of this paper is to present information on (to discuss, to describe, to show, to develop)…
The paper puts forward the idea…
5. The Subject: The subject of the paper is …(biology, sociology, forestry…)
The paper discusses some problems relating to (deals with some aspects, considers the problem of, presents the basic theory, provides information on, reviews the basic principals of)
The paper is concerned with (is devoted to)…
The article pays attention to…
The article reports that…
The key-note of the article is…
6. The Content: The text (article, story) starts with the fact (with the description of, with the characteristic of)…
The paper begins with a short discussion on (deals firstly with the problem of)
Such problems as … … … are considered.
Particular attention is given to …
The problem of … is analyzed in detail (is discussed in short).
The question of … is also mentioned.
After discussing… the author turns to…
Next (Further, Then) the author tries to (explains that)…
It must be emphasized that (should be noted that, is clear, is interesting to note that)
Then the author describes…
After that (next) the author touches upon the problem of… (deals with the fact)…
Besides the author stresses that…
Finally the author comes to the conclusion that …
The final paragraph states (describes, ends with)…
To sum up the author emphasizes (points out, admits) that…
To summarize all mentioned above it should be noted that …
7. Your attitude: The paper under discussion is of great theoretical and practical value for those who work in the field of …
My attitude to the text (article, story) is contradictory (complicated, simple). On the one hand I agree that …On the other hand I can’t agree that…
In my opinion (to my mind, I think)…
Finally I should give my own opinion, concerning…
The paper is interesting (not interesting, of (little) importance, (in)valuable, up to (out of) date, useful (useless)
I’ve learned a lot of interesting (important, new) facts (information) from the text (article, story) It makes us think of …
It gives us food for thoughts. It proves the idea (the theory, the point of view, the opinion)…
It can help us in self-education (in solving our problems). I’d like to cite the author (to make a quotation)
This text (article, story) can be useful for my future profession.
So in my opinion it is (not) worth reading.
That’s all I wanted to speak about.