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Understanding complex vocabulary
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Comprehension
means
understanding
.
The answers to some questions are easy to find, while the answers to others are more difficult to work out
.
The best way to understand a text is to
ask
yourself questions
as
you read it. Slide3
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When you’re reading, you often come across words that you are unsure of or don’t know.
You can’t always look up the meaning of a word in a dictionary, but you can try to work out its meaning by using clues in the text.Slide4
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Let’s work out the meaning
of the
red
words.
Lucas started watching the program on the secrets of the universe, but found it
incomprehensible
. Instead, he turned his attention to a magazine, and was soon
engrossed
in an article on the dirty habits of young boys — which Lucas found fascinating because it seemed a very good description of himself!Slide5
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If Lucas found the program on the
secrets of the
universe
incomprehensible
and
stopped
watching it, it could mean that:
he found it boring.
he found it
scary.
he couldn’t understand it.
How do we know which answer is correct?
Comprehensible sounds a bit like comprehension, which means “understanding”, and the prefix “in-” stands for “not”. From these clues, we can work out that
incomprehensible
means cannot be understood
. Slide6
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If Lucas became
engrossed
in a
magazine
article, it could mean that he:
became
disgusted by what he was
reading.
became interested in what he was reading.
was surprised by what he was reading.
How do we know which answer is correct?
The text tells us that Lucas found the article fascinating, which suggests that he was interested in it.Slide7
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To fully understand the meaning
of
a text,
you
need to know what all of the words
in
the text mean.
Sometimes it is possible to work out the meaning of a word from clues in the text.
But
to be absolutely sure, it’s always best
to
look it up in a dictionary.Slide8
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