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Chapter 9

Topik 8. Reading and Getting meaning from context

1. Learning Outcomes

After learning the topic:
The students are able to get meaning from context in a reading
passage

2. Material

Reading comprehension is one of the most difficult things to master on a
standardized test. The test-makers evaluate whether you can find the main idea,

make inferences, find the author's purpose, make inferences, and understand

vocabulary words, some of which you may have never been introduced to you
before.

The good news? You can understand vocabulary words based on the context

of the passage - the words, clauses and phrases around the unknown vocabulary
word. You don’t have to memorize all the vocabulary words in the dictionary!

For example, you might not understand the word, acerbity, by itself, but this

sentence, “The acerbity of the lemon caused the little girl to spit out the bite she
had just taken.” helps you understand that the general meaning of acerbity must

be “bitter or sour”. The context clues "lemon" and "spitting out the bite", which
provide more information in the sentence, help you understand what the

vocabulary word means.

Please watch the following video before you continue:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oO9CXNfo0-I

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