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Tasks: Commonly Confused Words

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Draw or mime:

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

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.

Key:

I eat all my vegetables, except for broccoli. I really hate broccoli; it's quite disgusting. My mother has always been very thorough with our diet - too thorough, if you ask me.
You're lucky to have a mother who doesn't care so much about vitamins and calories. I'm old enough to decide whether I will have broccoli or not. We all know that food affects our mood, and for me, broccoli has a very negative effect. My mother tries to lose 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 dessert - it would raise the quality of life for the rest of us.

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Commonly Confused Words

In this text you will find a list of English words that we often mix up and confuse.