Lesson 3

Listening

1. Listen to two friends talking about how to write a summary. Put the things that you need to do in the correct order.

Read your summary again and check that it makes sense. 5
Underline important words or phrases in the text. 2
Read the whole text and try to understand it. 1
Check you’ve included all the important information from the original text. 6
Fill in the gaps between the important words. 4
Start writing your summary while looking at the important words. 3

Reading

2. Read the text below and then choose the best summary of it. Compare your answers in pairs.

A. Seaweed might look boring, but some people enjoy eating it. Now the fashion for eating seaweed is getting more popular around the world.

B. At the moment, most people don’t know about eating algae, but this is likely to change in the future as we try to find more sustainable sources of food.

C. Nobody really wants to eat algae because it’s not tasty, but people will be eating algae in the future because it will be the only source of food.