Tasks: Commonly Confused Words
Fill in:
Draw or mime:
In the box below, you will find a list of commonly confused words.
Pick a random pair, but don’t tell the others which one you chose.
Then try to explain the meaning of the two words to the rest of the group without saying the words themselves. You can also draw or mime the words to help convey their meaning.
- 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
Find the mistakes:
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.