6. Analysis

Are there any words you are unsure of? Write down the words. Then write down what you think they mean, guessing from the context. Then write down a dictionary meaning. Were these words essential to understand the story? Were you able to guess correctly?

At the beginning of this book, during the first and many following lessons, there was always the word nodded. I don’t understand this word. At first, I thought it means they are cleaning their noses with their fingers. So I searched on http://dict.leo.org/. There it says that when you agree with something, you will move your head up and down. That’s nodding. I think it is very essential at the beginning.

Some pages later, there is another word I didn’t understand. I think it is a funny word, because it is the name of an important web page at the World Wide Web. That word is doodle. My first idea was that it has something to do with planning a trip. But leo.org told me I was wrong. It is when you are writing something only for yourself and you don’t write with your best handwriting, just playing around with your pen - then you are doodling. It isn’t so important to know this word, but I think it is a funny one.

My third word is mess. I heard this word in a song of the “Beasty Boys”, but I didn’t understand it. I thought it had something to do with bad things. And I wasn’t so far away. The real meaning of this word is, when you didn’t wash your hair two weeks, than they are looking messy. This word isn’t so essential for the story.

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