Guessing Meaning from Context

What are we learning today?

You will guess the meaning of a new word from the words around it.

Explanation

Weather is the day-to-day change in temperature, rain and wind. Climate is the typical weather in a place. You can guess a new word with four steps.

1. Read the whole sentence.
2. Find clue words.
3. Make a guess.
4. Check: does the sentence make sense?

Examples

1. "It is always cold and the winters are very long." This is a polar climate.
2. "It doesn't rain very often." This is a clue for the word "desert".
3. "The Inuit hunt seals, and their huskies help them." Hunt means to look for animals and catch them for food.

Remember!

• Use the words around the new word.
• Do not guess from the sound of the word.

Check yourself

1. Which word means "the typical weather in a place"?
2. What do you do first when you do not know a word?