2.1.4.1 Vocabulary Building
Understanding vocabulary is one of the important strategies in speaking comprehension. The main purpose of this unit is to help you prepare yourself to deal with the problems and difficult vocabulary in the written texts. The first part introduces you to the effective ways of using a dictionary to quickly find unknown words. The techniques of how to guess meaning of words from context clues will be presented in the second part. In the last part, you will study and practice analyze word formations in order to understand the approximate meanings of unfamiliar words.