English · Education and Career Choices

Reading strategy — identifying word meaning from context (education passages)

Find a word's meaning in the clues already sitting next to it

  • Foreign languages important
  • Literature and philosophy important

6 minutes

The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.

What the syllabus expects from you

  • Identifying/guessing word meaning from context in an education passage

The method

  1. Use context clues (surrounding sentence) before a dictionary reflex

From the lesson

Read this sentence about school life. One word may be new to you, but the sentence around it already tells you what it means.

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