Guessing Meaning from Context

La mejor estrategia para tratar con palabras desconocidas es...

• Look it up in a bilingual dictionary

• Ask your teacher

• Ask another person, a friend or your parents

• Try to guess what it means

Algunas razones para adivinar el significado de una palabra por su contexto son...

• It helps your concentration because you stay focused on the general sense.

• It helps build vocabulary because you propably remember the words.

• It demands you to know a lot of vocabulary.

• It requires a good usage of dictionary.

Una forma para adivinar el significado de una palabra desconocida es...

• Read the first paragraph to identify the topic sentence.

• Read the first lines of a paragraph to locate specific information.

• Examine the context of the word.

• Preview and predict the topic of the text.

¿Dónde encontraría las siguientes palabras?

Crops, soil, fertilizers, climate.

• In a text on Agriculture

• In a text on Criminology

• In a text on History of art

• In a text on English Grammar

Cuál es la mejor opción para la palabra 'precipitation'?:

"Because there was so little precipitation this year, the crops dried up and died".

• Fertilizer

• Planting

• Rain

• Harvesting

My sister loathes broccoli, but she loves spinach.

• Dislikes intensely

• Eats eagerly

• Prepares and cooks

• Harvests and sells

All birds have feathers, and feathers are peculiar to birds. No other major group of animals is easy to categorize. All birds have wings, too, but there are other winged creatures, such as bats and certain insects.

• Necessary for

• Important to

• Symbolic of

• Unique to

All birds have feathers, and feathers are peculiar to birds. No other major group of animals is easy to categorize. All birds have wings, too, but there are other winged creatures, such as bats and certain insects.

• Appreciate

• Comprehend

• Classify

• Visualize

Yet diversity among birds is not as striking as it is among mammals.

• Function

• Heredity

• Specialty

• Variety

The difference between a hummingbird and an emu is great, but hardly as dramatic as that between a bat and a whale.

• Definitely

• Not nearly

• Possibly

• Not softly