This powerpoint presentation helps the students or viewers to understand and to differentiate the meaning between Lexical and Contextual Cues. This also includes some information, examples and practices to be answered.

1. LEXICAL AND
CONTEXTUAL CUES

2. LEXICAL CUES
It is also known as
“dictionary definition”

3. LEXICAL CUES
It is any definition which
explains how a word
is actually used

4. LEXICAL CUES
Lexical definitions have a
serious drawback,
however, because they
are often vague or
ambiguous.

5. EXAMPLES:
Chair
Sunset
Table
Rose

6. CONTEXTUAL CUES
These are hints that an
author gives to help
define a difficult or
unusual word.

7. CONTEXTUAL CUES
The clue/s may appear
within the same
sentence as the word to
which it refers, or it may
follow in a preceding
sentence.

8. TYPES OF CONTEXTUAL CUES:
Synonym
Antonym
Definition
Explanation
Restatement

9. DEFINITION
The explorers landed in
an alien environment, a
place both foreign and
strange to their beloved
homeland.

10. EXPLANATION
The natives were hostile
when the settlers
approached their village.
They lined up across the
road and drew their
weapons.The settlers were
afraid to go further.

11. EXPLANATION
Hostile means
“unfriendly or nasty”

12. SYNONYM
The smell of the flower
was as compelling as a
magnet's pull on a paper
clip.

13. ANTONYM
In Singapore, he is an
eminent scientist even
though he is virtually
unknown in Japan.

14. EXPLANATION
Eminent means the
opposite of unknown. It
means well known or
famous.