oh hi everybody it's therese here with ielts english gurus and today we're talking about
paraphrase what is paraphrase basically paraphrase is using different words to say exactly the same
thing why is paraphrase important well it's important for ielts because paraphrase
helps you to become a better speaker a better writer and also it will help you with the
reading passages in ielts because a lot of the questions in the reading are paraphrases of the
sentences in the text so definitely using and understanding paraphrase will certainly help you
to get a better band score in ielts reading it's writing ielts listening and ielts speaking too
now in this video i'm going to run through some very very useful techniques that is
going to help you to learn paraphrase and know how to use it please watch this video until the
end so that you can definitely get a better band score especially for ielts writing the first
technique i'd like to talk about is word reversal this is where you actually switch the position of
the word for example we'll take the phrase sales of furniture that can become furniture sales what
are we doing we're just changing the position of the noun furniture to become an adjective before
the word sales in the same way purchase of houses can become house purchase construction of roads
becomes road construction so basically i'm just putting the noun as an adjective for example ielts
writing task one we're describing a pie chart the number of students in engineering increased
in 2018 i want to paraphrase it so i say the percentage of engineering students grew in 2018.
so i've changed students of engineering to engineering students basically just change the
word engineering the noun to become the adjective it's more concise and it's a perfect paraphrase
let's talk now about synonyms synonyms are words with the same meaning we'll take the word problem
now if you look in thesaurus.com you'll find several synonyms for the word problem challenge
issue difficulty these words all mean the same thing let's look for a synonym for furniture
sales of furniture becomes furnishing sales so furnishing is a synonym of furniture houses we can
use property property purchase instead of purchase of houses property is a synonym for houses
construction of roads becomes root construction root is a synonym of roads so in these phrases
i've used synonyms but i've also switched the word position this is the beginning of paraphrase
ielts writing task two the purchase of houses is a problem for many people
property purchasing is an issue for many people the purchase of houses becomes property purchasing
that's a word switch and the word problem becomes issue you can develop your range of words and
synonyms by reading and making lists of the words and synonyms you can create this list on your
computer word file or in a copy book and make sure that the words are related to common ielts topics
the next thing is to change the word type now what do i mean by that i mean that adjectives
can become adverbs verbs can become nouns we're actually changing the word type we're
really switching things up example sales increase slightly i've said there was a slight increase in
sales so you can see the verb increased becomes the noun increase you can see the adverb slightly
becomes the adjective slight use the expression there was to introduce this type of sentence
this noun phrase this is how you paraphrase so that is the technique to paraphrase
so you're changing the word type you're using synonyms you're using a new expression to say
exactly the same thing so another great technique is to go from the active voice to the passive
voice this is a clever technique that writers use to get a better balance score in ielts writing
example the man places the box in the truck change it to the box is placed in the truck by the man
to make the passive form you just use the verb to be is or are was or were in the past
plus the verb with ed the object is placed at the start of the sentence and you place the subject
at the end or indeed you don't use a subject at all how do you know what the keywords are
in a sentence they're basically the main words and they're often words that you can find synonyms for
so for example the sales of furniture grew quickly in 2020 those keywords are sales furniture
grew and quickly these are the main words that you can change up
so for example the sales of furniture grew quickly in 2020 becomes furniture sales developed
rapidly in the year 2020 so what i've done is i've changed the word position
sales of furniture becomes furniture sales i've used a synonym instead of gru and i say developed
i've used a synonym for quickly i've used rapidly and instead of in 2020 i've developed the
expression into in the year 2020 do you feel that you're better prepared now to paraphrase i hope so
i've really enjoyed working with you thanks for watching and i'll see you in the next video
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