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    Summary reading strategies: Task 2

    Using word classes to guess the meaning of unfamiliar words

    Look at the underlined words in the text below. Try to guess the meaning of each word by looking
    at its word class, the meaning of other words in the sentence, and by using the hints in bold.

    1. A dowry—the money or property a bride brings to her husband at marriage—was common in the past.

    It flourished throughout much of the ancient world, and also in medieval Europe. (Hint: Look at

    the word ending of ‘flourished’ and its position in the sentence. Is it a verb or a participle

    adjective?)

    2. The practice of dowries apparently originated when a bride’s parents gave her presents. For example,

    during the Middle Ages, young girls in rural areas received a dowry from their parents to take with

    them into marriage. Typically, she received a bed when she turned 12, followed by a wardrobe the next

    year. (Hint: Look at the word endings of ‘apparently’ and ‘typically’.)

    3. As time went on, the dowry developed various functions. A dowry of household goods often helped

    the newly weds set up their own home. A dowry of property or jewelry would help the wife support

    herself if her husband died. Generally, the husband returned the dowry to his in-laws if he and his wife

    divorced or if his wife died childless. (Hint: Look at the word ending of ‘function’. What other

    words end with the suffix ‘ion’?)

    4. Sometimes, the groom’s family paid for the bride, often to compensate her family for the money spent

    raising her. If the bride had been a valuable worker, her family was sometimes compensated for the

    loss of her economic support. (Hint: What does the root of the word tell you about its meaning?

    Which word class has words that end in ‘able’?)

    5. Today, traditional wedding observances are losing ground all over the world. However, some traditional

    cultures, including gypsies, many Hindus, and certain African societies, continue to see dowries as a

    usual part of marriage. For example, a groom of the Roma people, or gypsies, pays the bride’s family

    for the loss of their daughter. The bride price also ensures that the bride will be well treated by her new

    family. Negotiations between the families of the bride and groom can become quite extensive, with

    the bride’s father calculating how much his daughter has cost him since her birth, and how much she

    could be expected to earn during her lifetime. (Hint: Look at the word root and its suffix.)

    [Source: CD-ROM Practice set 1]


    Information Please® Database, © Pearson Education, Inc.: Dowries: The joining of money and marriage by David Johnson

    Photocopiable Lesson 6
    © Pearson Education Ltd 2012
    © Pearson Education Asia Limited 2012

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