## Vocabulary

HELP!

You see a word you haven't heard of before. Oh no! What do you do now?

No worries, there are several ways to try and find out what the word means.

Take it out of the context. It's often just a single word you won't understand, not the entire sentence. Try to translate or understand the rest of the sentence. If you get everything but that one little word you haven't heard of before, it's often possible to get it out of the sentence.

For example: You don't know the word egg in the sentence The little chicken was born out of the egg after 27 days. You know that a little chicken was born. Chickens come out of....... those round hard things, EGGS!

Some English words look like Dutch words so try and figure it out that way.

For example: You don't know the word supermarket in the sentence The family bought bread, tomatoes and cheese at the supermarket. The English word supermarket looks like the Dutch word supermarkt. Easy, right? :)