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Guessing the meaningfrom context

By

Porntip Bodeepongse

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Read and guess the meaning.

• The people in the neighbourhood

called Tom a loafer because he

always wasted his time by not

working when he should.

a loafer = a lazy person

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Unfamiliar word +signal word + meaning

Meaning+ signal word + unfamiliar word

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How to guess:

• Read the sentence carefully.

• Try using the context to help you

guess.• Look for a signal word and guessthe meaning.

Make sure that the meaning is thesame part of speech as the word.

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1. Definition

• Inflation is a rise in the generallevel of prices you pay for things

 you buy.• Someone who explores and studies

caves is known as a spelunker.

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Scoring rubrics are descriptive

scoring schemes that are developed byteachers or other evaluators to guide

the analysis of the products or

processes of students' efforts

(Brookhart, 1999).

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2. Restatement• Spontaneously, that is, without

planning, the students lifted the

teacher onto their shoulders.

• Mrs Miller loved the tranquillity —

the peace and quietness—

aftereverybody had gone to work.

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• Naturalist intelligence involves the

human ability to discriminate among

living things (plants, animals) as

well as sensitivity to, orunderstanding, other features of

the natural world (clouds, rockformation) 

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A thinking curriculum does not strive

to produce "walking-encyclopedias," 

or learners who are stuffed with facts,figures, definitions, and formulas.

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3. Example

Some people in the North of Thailanddo wickerwork, for example, theymake elephants, turtles, plates, bedsand chairs from teak trees forearning money.

• That trainee is very touchy. Forexample, she usually gets angry when

the trainer makes comments on herwork 

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4. Comparison and contrast

• Although Dara and Wipa are veryclose friends,they are very different.

Dara spends a lot of money to buythings while Wipa loves to economize.

• The moans of the winds on a winter

evening seem like the sounds of a sadgirl crying.

• Although Dara and Wipa are veryclose friends,they are very different.

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• Educational researchers andpractitioners hold different views

regarding ways that school principalsimprove educational outcomes.Whereas some researchers found

that school principals matter tostudent achievement, others foundno effects of leadership on studentoutcomes. Which factors cause suchcontradictory results?

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5. Cause and effect

• Suda got drenched during the rainstorm

because she left her umbrella at her

office.• The little boy had wanted a bicycle very

much. Therefore, he was ecstatic when

he got it on his birthday.

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Some questionnaires give the impression

that their authors tried to think of every

conceivable question that might be asked

with respect to the general topic of concern.

The result is a very long questionnaire

causing annoyance and frustration on the

part of the respondents resulting in non-

return of mailed questionnaires and

incomplete or inaccurate responses.

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6. Modifier Individual learning is an instruction

method in which students work

individually at their own level andrate toward an academic goal.

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