English level 5

Lesson 2
Actividad de practica 1

GUESSING MEANING FROM CONTEXT

(Adivinar el significado de acuerdo al contexto)

Adivinar el significado de acuerdo al contexto se

refiere a la capacidad de inferir el significado de
una expresión usando claves contextuales. Estas
pistas pueden ser puramente lingüísticas o
situacionales:
Contexto lingüístico: el medio ambiente
lingüística en la que una palabra se utiliza
dentro de un texto
Contexto situacional: elementos lingüísticos
adicionales que contribuyen a la construcción de lo que significa este puede
implicar fondo conocimiento del tema.
Lo que esto supone es que los alumnos deben ser capaces de inferir el
significado de una palabra desconocida usando:
el significado del vocabulario que lo rodea;
la manera en que se forma la palabra; fondo conocimiento de la materia y de
la situación. Las técnicas para adivinar los textos son a menudo lleno de
redundancia y en consecuencia los estudiantes pueden utilizar la relación
entre los diferentes elementos dentro de un texto para obtener el
significado. Nuestro conocimiento previo del mundo también puede
contribuir a entender lo que significa una expresión.

Activity 1

Elige el significado correcto de la palabra subrayada, e identifica el tipo de

clave de contexto utilizado: ejemplo, contraste, definición, o la lógica

1. Our baseball team's pitcher has a few eccentric habits, such as throwing exactly thirteen warm-up pitches
and never wearing socks.

A) normal
B) strange
C) messy
Clave de contexto:____________________________________

2. After the heavy rains, the stream became murky; in fact, the water was so cloudy you couldn't see the
bottom.

A) cloudy
B) bottomless
C) clear

Clave de contexto: _____________________________________

3. The debris on the stadium floor included numerous paper cups, ticket stubs, and cigarette butts.

A) products
B) papers
C) trash

Clave de contexto: _____________________________________

4. The coach takes every opportunity to censure his players, yet he ignores every opportunity to praise
them.

A) approve of
B) criticize
C) choose
Clave de contexto: _____________________________________

5. The newlyweds agreed to be very frugal in their shopping because they wanted to save enough money to
buy a house.
A) economical
B) wasteful
C) interested

Clave de contexto: _____________________________________

2a Ideal company Nicholas Sheard

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Activity 2
lee los criterios para una compañía ideal
y elige las cinco más importantes y los
cinco menos importantes.( explica el
porque de tus opciones )
My ideal company:
• has a female CEO
• gives six months’ paid maternity leave and
one month paid paternity leave COMPANY COMPANY
GYM CANTEEN
• has a crèche facility
COMPANY
• has a good quality canteen
CRÈCHE
• gives equal pay to women and men
• gives employees a laptop computer and
mobile phone for business and personal use
• has opportunities for promotion and personal
development
• awards bonuses and gives fringe benefits to
employees
• provides at least six weeks’ training a year
• has an annual staff party
• has a generous company pension scheme
• allows women with three children to retire at
55
• has a gym and sports facilities
• pays one month extra salary to employees
who have a new baby or who get married

Activity 3

Elabora oraciones acerca de tu jefe ideal

utoilizando las sig. ideas

My ideal boss:
• reads my e-mails
• lets me make personal calls at work
• takes me out to dinner
• has regular update meetings with me
• sends me on trips
• calls me by my first name
• phones me at home to discuss work
• leaves me to get on with my work
• chats about his/her family and other non work-related topics
 • brings me coffee
• sets regular deadlines and targets
• lets me leave work early
• says thank you
• praises me
• gives me lots of responsibility• lets me work from home

always usually often sometimes not often hardly ever never

every day every week twice a year once a month

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