According to Aesop, there was once a 
goose that laid golden eggs. Of course, the farmer, who quite happily collected the droplets of pure gold, became rapidly rich and even more rapidly greedy. Not content to wait through the gestation of gold, he decided to kill the goose in order to harvest, in full, its precious source.
After reading the above story in class one day, I asked my students to summarize it in their own words. Their tendency, when “summarizing” is to either copy the entire story verbatim or to pick and choose random sentences to form a scattered, incomprehensible account. Neither is preferable.
Fortunately, one of my students attempted to actually summarize the story. Unfortunately, she relied on her techno-translator to supply the new vocabulary required. As such, the final sentence of her summary ended up like this:
Then the farmer killed the goose and opened up the goose’s intention.
