江汉大学外国语学院.

Reading Skill: Context Clue to Word Meaning I-2
e. g. 1. Housekeeping involves cooking, washing dishes, sweeping and cleaning. (p. 2)
2. Linguistics, made up of phonetics, grammar and lexicology, is a science with long history.
context: pour out unhappy feelings Dictionary: to claim or express pain, displeasure, etc.
Reading Skill: Context Clue to Word Meaning I-2
3. When President Torrijos of Panama met Carter, he tried to give him friendly abrazo (hug).
Reading Skill: Context Clue to Word Meaning I-2
e. g. 1. The faculty of that university, whether old or young, male or female, are hard-working and diligent.
Reading Skill: Context Clue to Word Meaning I-2
2. When the student meets another miserable person form the same country, he will pour out his unhappy feelings. Together they can complain in their native language.
In-classroom Activity
The Second Step
Word Pretest (p. 16)
Word Pretest
1. My cousin is an acquaintance of the president of that company; they greet each other when they meet. A. a close friend B. a person who works with C. a person one has met but doesn’t know very well D. a classmate
Reading Skill: Context Clue to Word Meaning I-2
5. The word “regression” means moving backward, and in this phase of culture shock, you spend much of your time speaking your own language, watching videos from your home country, or eating food from home.
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Unit Two Culture Shock
In-classroom Activity
The First Step Reading Skill: Context Clues to Word Meaning
1. Review
Reading Skill: Context Clue to Word Meaning I-2
Reading Skill: Context Clue to Word Meaning I-2
5. The word “regression” means moving backward, and in this phase of culture shock, you spend much of your time speaking your own language, watching videos from your home country, or eating food from home. context: moving backward Dictionary: going back; return; movement backward
Reading Skill: Context Clue to Word Meaning I-2
3. When President Torrijos of Panama met Carter, he tried to give him friendly abrazo (hug).
Context: hug Dictionary: an embrace or hug, esp. in greeting a person
2. When the student meets another miserable person form the same country, he will pour out his unhappy feelings. Together they can complain in their native language.
2. Further Knowledge (p. 1)
Reading Skill: Context Clue to Word Meaning I-2
What is an example clue?
Reading Skill: Context Clue to Word Meaning I-2
What is an example clue?
Reading Skill: Context Clue to Word Meaning I-2
4. Psychologists tell us that there are five distinct phases (or stages) of culture shock.
Reading Skill: Context Clue to Word Meaning I-2
Reading Skill: Context Clue to Word Meaning I-2
3. What is a definition clue?
Reading Skill: Context Clue to Word Meaning I-2
What is a definition clue? A definition clue is the information provided by the context directly or indirectly to define the word or expression. It may appear as a dictionary definition, but in most cases they appear in the simpler words or phrases.
4. Psychologists tell us that there are five distinct phases (or stages) of culture shock. context: stages Dictionary: any of the stages or forms in any series or cycle of changes, as in development
Practice of context clues (p. 19)
Reading Skill: Context Clue to Word Meaning I-2
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1. The symptoms range from being ill at ease to being seriously depressed. Feeling homesick, unhappy, and very sensitive are other signs of culture shock.
Reading Skill: Context Clue to Word Meaning I-2
1. The symptoms range from being ill at ease to being seriously depressed. Feeling homesick, unhappy, and very sensitive are other signs of culture shock.
context: signs Dictionary: any condition accompanying or
resulting from a disease or a physical disorder and serving as an aid in diagnosis
Reading Skill: Context Clue to Word Meaning I-2
1. What is context?
Reading Skill: Context Clue to Word Meaning I-2
What is context? the parts of a sentence, paragraph, discourse, etc. immediately next to or surrounding a specified word or passage and determining its exact meaning (Webster) (Textbook: context means: “the words or sentences before or after the item you don’t know.” p. 1)
Reading Skill: Context Clue to Word Meaning I-2
e. g. 2. Desks, such as classroom desk, computer desk, studying desk, etc. have only one working side, while tables have four working sides.
Reading Skill: Context Clue to Word Meaning I-2
2. What is a context clue?
Reading Skill: Context Clue to Word Meaning I-2
2. What is a context clue? A context clue refers to the hint or information guessed from or provided by the meaning of the context to help understand the particular word or expression.
An example clue refers to the information provided by the context by using examples or specific items to explain the word or expression in the same context.
Reading Skill: Context Clue to Word Meaning I-2
The relationship between the specific word and the example clues is that the things described by the words in the example clues are included in the specific word.