ESL 100 Paraphrase Activity
ESL 100
Paraphrasing activity
The following quotations are commentaries on different aspects of American culture. Using the techniques on page 116, write a paraphrase of each sentence. Also, write which of the techniques you used.
1. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. (Helen Keller) If
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2. To be nobody but myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. (e.e. cummings)
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3. We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honor the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife. (Chief Justice Earl Warren)
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4. Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. (Virginia Woolf)
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5. In automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in television, there is small desire. (Louis Kronenberger)
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Paraphrasing activity
The following quotations are commentaries on different aspects of American culture. Using the techniques on page 116, write a paraphrase of each sentence. Also, write which of the techniques you used.
1. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. (Helen Keller) If
Techniques used:
2. To be nobody but myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. (e.e. cummings)
Techniques used:
3. We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honor the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife. (Chief Justice Earl Warren)
Techniques used:
4. Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. (Virginia Woolf)
Techniques used:
5. In automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in television, there is small desire. (Louis Kronenberger)
Techniques used: