False Friends/cognates

False Friends/cognates

Aprender sobre os falsos cognatos (false friends).

False Cognates

O que você acha que está acontecendo na cena abaixo? O rapaz parece irritado. Porém, a professora está o corrigindo, pois ele falou algo errado. Será?

Na verdade, ele está irritado com alguma situação e usou a palavra “brave” dando a entender que está bravo, nervoso. Mas a professora o corrige dizendo que é “angry.”

False Cognates

Ou seja, isso é um falso cognato (false cognate or false friend). Quando confundimos o significado das palavras.

     Brave = corajoso          Angry = bravo, irritado

False Friends/ Cognates

• Os falsos cognatos são palavras de línguas diferentes que, apesar de apresentarem grafias e/ou pronúncias semelhantes, possuem significados distintos. (push – empurrar)

FALSE FRIENDS

• Sensible – sensato                                 Sensitive - sensível 

  Sympathetic – solidário                        Nice – simpático 

  Estate – propriedade, imóvel               State – estado

  
  

FALSE FRIENDS

• To understand – entender             To attend – frequentar, comparecer                                 

  To answer – responder, atender

   

  To pretend – fingir                           To intend -  pretender

Fill in the blanks with the false friends (false cognates) just mentioned.

Multiple Choice

Alan is such a _______ boy that you must be careful when you talk to him.

• sensible

• sensitive

Multiple Choice

All the students were _____ to George after his accident.

• Sympathetic

• Nice

Multiple Choice

Jackson is selling one of his _____ near the lake.

• state

• estates

Multiple Choice

Come on. Be _______ and agree with us. Our ideal is more practical.

• sensible

• sensitive

Multiple Choice

We may find water in three ________: liquid, solid, and gaseous.

• states

• estates

Multiple Choice

Marta is a ______ girl.

• sympathetic

• Nice

Multiple Choice

The telephone is ringing. Are you going to _____ it?

• understand

• answer

• attend

• pretend

• intend

Multiple Choice

They _____ to go to Europe next year.

• understand

• answer

• attend

• pretend

• intend

Multiple Choice

I _____ English classes at night.

• understand

• answer

• attend

• pretend

• intend

Multiple Choice

Did you ______ the explanation?

• understand

• answer

• attend

• pretend

• intend

Multiple Choice

She ____ that she is rich, but we know she is not.

• understands

• answers

• attends

• pretends

• intends