Antibiotic resistance: summarizing a health article
Students compare an article on antibiotic resistance with a model summary, practice condensing ideas, then summarize a new health article.
B2Adults50 minSummary
About this lesson
A B2 writing lesson (summary). Prompts, model texts and simple checklists — from a first email to an opinion essay.
- Level
- B2
- Skill
- Writing
- Type
- Summary
- Students
- Adults
- Time
- About 50 minutes
- Topic
- Health & medicine
- Activities
- Key words, Speaking / writing task, Reading text, True / False, Matching
- Key words
- fatal, bacteria, resistance, prescribe, virus, pharmaceutical company, diagnostic test, sparingly
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Identify the main ideas of an article and separate them from examples and detail
- Condense long phrases into shorter, more general ones
- Write an 80–100 word summary of a health article