Dealing with new words (2)

B: Activity aims and overview
The aim of this activity is to give you practice in using the context to help you guess the meaning of unknown words. This will be done by trying to identify the part of speech, focussing on words around the unknown word and trying to use the general meaning of the sentence.

C: Activity part 1
Look at the gapped version of the text. For each missing word, write down:

  • what part of speech you think it is
  • the possible meaning (either a definition in English or a translation in your own language)
  • how sure you are: 100% 75% 50% 10% etc

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