Here is another longer version of a passage of text for you to paraphrase. This comes from the opening of Ernest Hemmingway’s book, A Farewell to Arms (1929).

Have a go at re-writing this piece of text. Remember you don’t need to keep the same order of the sentence meanings, but the whole meaning needs to be represented in what you write, as was shown in the previous example.

In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels. Troops went by the house and down the road and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees. The trunks of the trees too were dusty and the leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust rising and leaves, stirred by the breeze, falling and the soldiers marching and afterward the road bare and white except for the leaves.

THREE STEPS EXERCISE:

  1. Prepare your message and post it in the forum.
  2. Look at your peers' versions and compare: would you write something different now?
  3. Finally, comment your own first post with an enhanced version of your work.

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