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...a degree course which PRECEEDS a course of professional training...
MORPHEMIC cues - Look for meaningful suffix/prefix: here: PREpaid, PREcook
...will leave university with a DUAL qualification
COGNATES: look for similar words in other languages: DUE (IT), DOS (SP), DEUX (FR)
He plays the *KENTREL.
SYNTACTIC cues - *KENTREL is a noun object. (English uses “the” + instrument after certain verbs) ---> *KENTREL might be a ......
An UPHILL battle
METAPHORIC - see the metaphor! (you are fighting somebody else, who is on the top of the hill, and you are down)
‘In the poor world people are killed by the conditions they live under, the SQUALOR and the lack of food and money,’
WORLD KNOWLEDGE - what might SQUALOR mean if you have seen images of people in poor countries?
Shakespeare wrote plays, poems and SONNETS.
CONTEXT - words in series, PARALLEL meanings, similarity
“Will it be blessing or DAMNATION?”
CONTEXT - contrast, opposite meanings
BRUNCH, EDUTAINMENT
PHONEMIC cues - say it! See if it reminds you of something else!
