Meaning from context

What are we learning today?

You will learn to guess the meaning of a word from the sentence around it.

Explanation

• Look at the sentence and the situation.
• Get in a car means to go inside it. Get on a bus or a coach means to go onto it.
• Get off a bus means to leave it.
• Take off means that a plane leaves the ground.
• Get back means to return. Go away means to leave home for a while.
• The ending -ist can name a person: cycle, cyclist; guitar, guitarist.

Examples

1. Take the bus and get off at the post office.
2. Planes take off from here every five minutes.
3. We get off the tram at the park.

Remember!

• Say "We got off the bus", not "We got the bus off".
• Do not translate word by word.

Check yourself

1. Complete: "The plane ___ at 11.15." (took off / got off)
2. Which word fits: "A ___ rides a bike."