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8. Reread the information you gathered in Activity 3 about the cultural habit you selected.

• Identify a couple of words you don’t know the meaning of.

• Find out their meaning using contextual clues. Look at the example.
Example:

This Is What Breakfast Looks Like Around the World
When it comes to breakfast, we might be partial to avocado
Unkown expression breakfast scene is giving our traditional morning meals some serious Contextual clues
toast or a sprinkle-covered, glazed doughnut, but the international

competition. For Americans, hot soups and cold cuts may seem
like a strange way to start the day at first, but there’s no better way

to get a taste for a country than to chow down as the locals do. In
the next link you wil see how to start the day off right in 13 different
countries.

Unknown expression: chow down

Step 1: Look for contextual clues. "soups”, “cold cuts”, “start the day”
These are the words and
phrases that surround the
word you don’t know. Contextual clues allow us to understand that the
Contextual Clues word means using the writer is talking about food (i.e. soups and cold cuts).
Step 2: Guess what the unknown
Also ties the food to the expression “start the day”, so
contextual clues.
she is referring to having breakfast. People eat food
during breakfast. So maybe chow down is an informal

“For Americans, hot soups and cold cuts may seem like a
Step 3: Check your definition by expression that means eat.
inserting it in place of the strange way to start the day at first, but there’s no better
unknown word and see if it way to get a taste for a country than to eat as the locals do.”
makes sense.

• Gather a few conversations about cultural habits and select one to use throughout
this practice. Look at the examples on page 15.
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