Six you already caught
Unit 4 gave you six words that look Portuguese and are not. Before we add more, get those six back from memory — no notes.
Six words from Unit 4. Match each to what it actually means in English.
Six sentences that went wrong
Real sentences. Each one means something the speaker did not intend.
My grandmother had a very exquisite house.
I could not support my colleague that year.
We assisted the whole match together.
I realised the project in six months.
She worked in a fabric outside the city.
I attended the phone but there was nobody there.
Four questions. Each sentence above is grammatical, and each one says the wrong thing.
1. My grandmother had a very exquisite house. What does an English listener hear?
2. I could not support my colleague that year. What does it say in English?
3. We assisted the whole match together. What does assist mean in English?
4. I realised the project in six months. English realise means —
Round two, and the words you actually wanted
Six more false friends
| Looks like | Actually means | You probably wanted |
|---|---|---|
exquisite · esquisito | Extremely beautiful, finely made | strange, odd, weird |
support · suportar | To help, to back somebody | put up with, stand, bear |
assist · assistir | To help | watch, attend, go to |
realise · realizar | To suddenly understand | carry out, complete, do |
fabric · fábrica | Cloth, material | factory, plant |
attend · atender | To go to an event | answer, serve, see to |
Six meanings you will need in a memory. Match each to the correct English word — not the one that looks right.
Holding a long story together
Tap each. These are the joints of a four-minute narrative — without them a long story becomes a list of events.
Two to four words per gap, all from the list above. Each is used once.
I thought it was a joke. We had been walking for about an hour, and my brother stopped and said he had left the tickets in the car. we were running back down the hill in the dark. he had had them in his jacket the whole time. we missed the first twenty minutes, and , that was the best part of the day.
Using them without thinking
Eight sentences. Each contains one word that means something the speaker did not intend. Rewrite each.
1. The whole situation was very exquisite.
2. I could not support the noise any more.
3. We assisted the concert from the back row.
4. She realised all the work in one weekend.
5. My father worked in a fabric for thirty years.
6. Nobody attended the door.
7. Eventually I will go, but I am not sure.
8. All my parents came to the wedding.
A short memory with gaps of both kinds — the right word, and the right joint. One to four words per gap.
I did not think anything of it. I was nine, and my grandmother took me to the where she had worked before I was born — a huge place full of noise and cloth. a man came over and said her name, and she started crying, which I had never seen. they had worked on the same floor for eleven years. , I understand what that afternoon was, and at the time I only wanted to go home.
Six joints. Put them into the order they would appear across one story.
Six joints, one story
Task card · Speaking · Pairs · 4 minutes each
The five-sentence version of your story that you wrote for homework. Now stretch it.
Tell it in about two minutes, using at least four of the six joints, in a sensible order.
- Open with To begin with… and close with Looking back…. Those two are compulsory.
- Use It turned out that… somewhere, even if you have to invent what it turned out to be.
- Your partner holds the joint list and ticks each one as they hear it.
- Any false friend from either round costs you a point. Your partner is also watching for those.
The two that survive
Four sentences. Fix each and name the word that lied.
1. It was an exquisite feeling, being back there.
2. I assisted my sister’s graduation last year.
3. Eventually she will call. I hope.
4. In the end of the story, everybody laughed.
Twelve words, two rounds
Three questions.
1. Your friend describes a room as exquisite. What have they said?
2. Which means "to tolerate something unpleasant"?
3. Which joint introduces the information that changes what the story was about?
Before next lesson. Your story needs to run for four minutes. Find two more things to put in it: one more scene, and one thing somebody said out loud.
Bring both written down. Four minutes is much longer than it sounds, and nobody gets there by talking more slowly.