It is very often that students fail to guess the meaning of an unknown word, especially in a high level English sentence. Because, in such a senntence, all words are high level. For instance, 'peruse' can be used instead of 'read'. If other words are easy and known ones, then 'peruse' is predictable. It depends on the English level of the sentence whether you will have difficulty in guessing or not. It sometimes also happens to me that I cannot predicts from the context and I need to check it from a dictionary.
Because our coursebooks do not aim to teach us vocabulary directly, they do not include lots of 'guess the meaning from context' activities. It is good for teachers to develop their sense of frequency in terms of teaching because more the teacher uses the words means more the students understand and send these words to long-term memory. So by this way, students broaden their vocabulary and understand under what conditions s/he should use these words.
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