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Advanced Inference Strategies

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