Summarizing science: what the brain does while we sleep
Students read an article on sleep science and compare it with a model summary, practice paraphrasing, then summarize a text on citizen science.
C1Adults60 minSummary
About this lesson
A C1 writing lesson (summary). Prompts, model texts and simple checklists — from a first email to an opinion essay.
- Level
- C1
- Skill
- Writing
- Type
- Summary
- Students
- Adults
- Time
- About 60 minutes
- Topic
- Science
- Activities
- Key words, Speaking / writing task, Reading text, Multiple choice, True / False, Matching, Table to fill in
- Key words
- metabolic by-products, flush away, consolidate, outperform, sobering, chronic, causal link, skew
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Identify the main idea of each paragraph in a science text
- Paraphrase key ideas concisely without copying phrases
- Write a 90–110 word summary of a popular science text