Words Guessing,北京第十七中学 秦月年,高中英语猜词技巧,Tigers on the road,If you come across/meet with new words while reading, what will you do ?,2. Ignore them and continue reading;,1. Look them up in the dictionary;,3. Guess the meanings;,What are the skills of guessing the meanings of new words?,1. He was performing before a packed home and his technique was unbelievable, his tone was wonderful and his audience deeply loved him.,unbelievable means _,难以置信的,Skill 1 _,构词法 (word formation),2. Exhibition officials said that a person bitten by one of these snakes would need at least 80 ml of an anti-poison medicine to be saved.,anti-poison means _,解毒、抗毒,一、发现规律，总结技巧,1. 合成法：将两个或两个以上的单词合成在一起构成新词。 warm-hearted, man-made, reading-room, sleepwalk 2. 派生法：在词根上加前缀(prefix)或后缀(suffix)构成另一个与原意略有变化或截然相反的词。 前缀：uncomfortable, misunderstand, impossible; 后缀：scientist, selfless, useful, decision 前后缀：unbelievable, unforgettable, disagreement 3. 转化法：一种词性用作另一种词性。 He is dogging behind me. 他在我后面跟着。 We will back you up. 我们将支持你。,构词法 (word formation),stethoscope means _,3. The modern age of medicine began with the stethoscope, an instrument for listening to a patients heartbeat and breathing.,听诊器,Skill 2 _,定义、解释 (definition and explanation),4. The textbook glossary is a list of new words and phrases weve learned in the text.,glossary means _,词汇表,periodical means _,5. You can take any of the periodicals: The World of English, Foreign Language Teaching in School, or English Learning.,期刊,Skill 3 _,标点符号 (punctuation),6. This year about 2,300 teenagers (young people aged from 1319) from all over the world will spend about ten months in U.S. homes.,teenager means _,青少年,7. The heat of sun warms some ocean water. The surface of the water evaporates, forming a cloud of warm, wet air that moves upward.,evaporate means _,蒸发,Skill 4 _,经验、常识 (experience and common-sense),8. Birds fly with their wings, and they pick up their foods, and then eat them with their beaks and they use their claws for pulling or holding objects.,beak means _ and claw means _,喙,爪子,assemble means _,9. The pupils assembled in front of the school hall. They came together to listen to the headmaster announce the result of the sports meeting.,聚集到,Skill 5 _,语境；因果关系 (context and cause-effect),10. I found I was paying too much attention to the job and thus sacrificing my study time.,sacrifice means _,牺牲；失去,11. Today young couples who are just starting their household often spend lots of their money on appliances, for instance, washing-machine, fridge and colour TV sets.,appliance means _,家用电器,Skill 6 _,举例 (examples),12. Many United Nations employees are polyglot. Mr. White, for example, speaks six languages.,polyglot means _,懂多种语言的,detrimental means _,有害的,Skill 7 _,13. Doctors believe that smoking cigarettes is detrimental to your health. They also regard drinking as harmful.,14. One night Mrs. Rochester succeeded in setting the house on fire. Mr. Rochester managed to lead the servants to safety and then went back into the burning mansion to rescue his wife.,mansion means _,房子，楼房,同义词、同等关系 (synonyms ),15. Andrew is one of the most supercilious men I knew. However, His brother is quite modest.,supercilious means _,傲慢的,Skill 8 _,对比、反义 (contrast and antonym),16. John usually wastes a lot of money on such useless things; his wife, however, is very thrifty.,thrifty means _,节俭的,高中英语猜测词义技巧,Summary,1. 构词法,2. 定义、解释,3. 标点符号,4. 经验、常识,5. 语境、因果,6. 举例,8. 对比、反义,7. 同义、同等,一、构词法,1. As you are receiving my note by E-mail, its wise to remember how easily this wonderful technology can be misused, sometimes unintentionally(无意地), with serious results.,误用,2. Sanctuaries are places where it is against the law to hunt birds and animals.,禁猎区,二、定义、解释,二、生词有道，勇于猜测,三、标点符号,3. Bears are omnivorous. They will eat everything: other mammals, birds, fruits, plants, nuts, or fish.,杂食性的,四、经验、常识,4. Its said that Bill Gates is the most affluent person in the world.,富有的,五、语境、因果,5. Although the fisherman was wearing souwester, the storm was so heavy that he was wet through.,防雨衣,六、举例,6. Children like such beasts as dogs and monkeys.,动物,七、同义、同等,7. E-commerce, or business done on the Internet, is becoming more and more popular as people discover the advantage of online shopping.,电子商务,八、对比、反义,8. American businessmen expect employees to be punctual. They do not expect that the workers will come late.,准时，不迟到,三、熟词新义，重在理解,1. Though years have now passed, I still wonder where my rainbow has gone. I wonder if, maybe when I get older, I can fi