Tasks: Commonly Confused Words
Work in small groups. You need some paper and a pencil for this exercise.
In the box below, you will find a list of commonly confused words.
- Take turns picking a random pair, but don't tell the others which one you pick.
- Mime the words OR make a drawing that can explain or symbolise the words.
- The others will try to guess the words. They get a point if they are able to explain the difference between the words and are able to put them in a context.
- affect/effect
- desert/dessert
- your/you're
- whether/weather
- by/buy
- break/brake
- quite/quit/quiet
- to/two/too
- meet/meat
- loose/lose
- through/threw/thorough
- their/they're/there
- raise/rise
- lie/lay
The following paragraph contains twelve errors with commonly confused words. Find each misused word and correct it by adding the proper word.
I eat all my vegetables, accept for broccoli. I really hate broccoli; its quiet disgusting. My mother has always been very through with our diet - to thorough, if you ask me. Your lucky to have a mother who doesn't care so much about vitamins and calories. I'm old enough to decide weather I will have broccoli or not. We all know that food effects our mood, and for me, broccoli has a very negative affect. My mother tries to loose a bit of weight, and that has consequences for all of us. I don't see why we can't skip dinner and just have desert - it would rise the quality of life for the rest of us.
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In this text you will find a list of English words that we often mix up and confuse.