​When will I ever need to summarise something in the real world?

On which social media platform can you upload the events of your entire day with excruciating detail? IF there is a platform for this, who would want to read all that information? Not only do you have limited space on social media, but your followers will most probably not read a 300-word status update, nor a 4-minute TikTok video. ​

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So? You need to summarise your daily events and/or experiences!​

​When do we summarise?

​When responding to a text.

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"Yeah, today was fine. The only exiting event was when Rory accidentally spilled ink on his phone."​

When posting on social media.

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"Boomer be booming!"

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When talking to your grandmother on the phone at an inconvenient time.

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"Yes, Gran. It went well."​

​When do we summarise?

​Even when watching our favourite YouTubers, we summarise their content while watching the video.

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Your reaction to something he/she said indicates whether that was an important piece of information or a heavy loaded controversial comment. Point being? You know what was said was important either way.

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After watching the video, we use our summary to make a judgement call on whether the video was worth the watch, or not. ​

​TEST THE THEORY

​Test the theory by watching the YouTube clip on the next slide.

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