1. Reading for UAE
In Your Own Words

2. Advice
If you are asked to answer in your own words, you cannot use the writer’s words
You must put the writer’s words into your own words

3. Stages Find the answer in the text
Translate the writer’s words into your own
Write your words as the answer

4. Words to Change It is difficult to find alternatives for some nouns
But you must change adjectives, adverbs and verbs

5. Try these The euphoric man strolled to the shops.
Write these in your own words.
The euphoric man strolled to the shops.
She displayed her anger on occasion.
The frightened boy clung to his mother’s hand.
The torrential rain flooded the streets.
He was stunned when he discovered his exam results.

6. Practice Question 1
It’s hard to reconcile the popular tropical imagery of surfing with the town, a raw, exposed kind of place that enjoys little escape from the raw excesses of the Scottish climate.
In your own words, describe the popular image of a surfing location.

7. Practice Question 2
Surfers generally guard their local breaks jealously. It’s considered essential to keep your mouth shut about your ‘secret spot’, in case you find it overrun with visitors.
In your own words, explain why surfers guard their local breaks jealously.

8. Practice Question 3
‘We follow the surf around all year and go to a lot of different places, but Scotland’s somewhere probably none of us have been to,’ he says. ‘That for me was a big part of wanting to go, to see the place. As a professional surfer, you’ve got to live out of your bag a lot, travelling around with long stints away from home, but when you perform well in the event or get some really good waves, it makes it all worth it.’
In your own words, sum up the negative and positive aspects of his life.
Negative
Positive

9. Practice Question 4
Alice clutches desperately at the bushes and scrub to stop herself slipping any further. For a moment she lies sprawled in the dirt, dizzy and disoriented. As it sinks in, how very close she came to being crushed, she turns cold. Takes a deep breath. Waits for the world to stop spinning. In your own words, explain why Alice ‘turns cold’.

10. Practice Question 5
Perhaps the pressure of family expectation got to him for a moment. Perhaps he panicked.
In your own words, explain the possible reasons for Askay fainting.