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Reading strategy — making inferences beyond the literal text
How to infer what a text implies, not just what it says
6 minutes
The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.
What the syllabus expects from you
- Making inferences beyond the literal text
The method
- Combine an explicit textual clue with background knowledge to state what the text implies but doesn't say
The common mistakes
- Stating an inference as if it were an explicit fact from the text
From the lesson
Read this short passage. What can you tell about what happened, even though the text never says it directly?
The vocabulary
- infer (يستنتج ضمنيا)