Using your knowledge of English, you will be able to identify the meaning of unfamiliar words by recognizing cognates in an authentic passage of text.
Read the passage to the right. Use the strategies presented in the lesson above to negotiate the meaning of the unfamiliar words.
In order to make crepes, you will need 125g of:
a) salt b) soup
c) sausage d) sugar
The answer is sugar. Did you guess that sugar was the word after the measurement of 125g since “sucre” looks so similar to the English word sugar?
(DeMado et al, 2008, p. 373)