老师：Hello everyone, I'm Wang Hanbing from Beijing No. 80 High School. Welcome to this period. And today we are going to continue with Unit 1 relationships. In the previous period, we have Learned about some reading skills and we have come across some new words. So in this period, we are going to learn about how to guess the meanings of new words. Are you ready for that? Okay, let's get started. Let's look at the sentence we met last time. I'm way beyond a shy or reserved person. It is a new word we came across in our reading in the last period. What does Reserve mean? We won't explain the word here. We're going to learn some methods and then we're going to get the meaning of it.
老师：Well, how do you deal with new words or phrases not you meet while reading? I'm sure most of us have the experience of meeting new words in our reading. But how do we deal with that? Well, actually, we have many ways. The easiest way is to just ignore them and continue reading. Also, we can look them up in the dictionary, but it is not that useful because when we were taking a test, we were not allowed to take a dictionary with us. So here comes the third way. That is guessing the meaning of new words. And here is a question.
老师：What are the ways if you want to guess the meanings of new words. Sometimes we can use the method of word formation to guess the meanings of new words. We have many prefix, suffix, and roots. Each one has its own meaning and function. When they form a word, we just need to put the meaning and function together. That's how we get the general meaning of the new word. This one is easy, so we want to focus on this part today. And there is another way. That is to guess the meanings of new words from the context. But how do we do that? Actually, there are certain methods to guess the meanings of new words from the context. Let's focus on this topic. We will find it out.
老师：First of all, let's have a look at this sentence. Anthropology is the scientific study of men. What does the word anthropology mean? It means the scientific study of men. We can call this method definition. There are some signal words that indicate it is a definition. We have a pay be called men's or be defined as. Let's do an exercise to practice it. A mosquito is a small flying pest that against thrust the skin and then drink blood. What does mosquito mean? A pest is a small insect. Usually it is not that pleasant to have a small insect that can drink blood. What is that? Yes, it is Wenzel. So mosquito means wende. And what will mosquito do if he wants to drink blood? It will thrust the skin first. So what does thrust mean? Someone will say that it might mean bite, but that is not accurate, because mosquitoes, they don't have such a big mouth to bite, right? So a stress means
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