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ACtiVitY 3.5
interacting in Meaningful Ways: using Context Clues
Learning objective
• Use knowledge of morphology (e.g., affixes, roots, and base words), context, reference materials, and visual cues to determine the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words on familiar topics.
context clues
The Taming of the Shrew is a drama that was written by Shakespeare hundreds of years ago. It contains unfamiliar words and multiple-meaning words. To find out the meaning of these words, you can use context clues. There are different kinds of context clues to help you.
Language Resources: context clues
Types
Comparison/Contrast
They would prefer to have the room opaque for the event, rather than light.
Details
He did not understand how to assemble the toy, so he read the directions to find out how to put it together.
Examples
She wanted to learn about textiles so she visited a cotton company and a wool company.
Multiple-Meaning Words
The pitcher hoped to strike out the batter so that there would be no more batters that inning.
Skim through The Taming of the Shrew looking for unfamiliar words and multiple-meaning words and their context clues. Write three examples in the chart: the sentences or phrases in which they appear, the unfamiliar word(s) or multiple-meaning word(s), and the definitions of these word(s). Underline the context clues that helped you determine the meaning of the word(s).
example
sentence/Phrase
unfamiliar Word
Definition
Were she as rough as are the swelling Adriatic seas
swelling
becoming large, like waves in a sea
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