Part+I+Cognates+True+or+False

= Cognates: True or False? =

Purpose: To determine whether words that look the same in Spanish and English, or Portuguese and English, have similar meanings.

====**When you're learning a new language, a //cognate// is an easy word to remember because it looks and means the same thing as a word you already know. For example, //gratitude// in English means the same as //graditud// in Spanish. (from Vocabulary.com)**====

False Friends/False Cognates
Falsos Amigos

Sometimes even though words may look alike or sound alike they do not have the same/similar meanings.

For example: the English word embarrass means to make (someone) feel confused and foolish in front of other people and the Spanish word embarazo means pregnancy

or in Brazilian Portuguese the word maior means bigger/biggest and in English mayor means a person who is elected to be the head of the government of a city or town

**Journal:** Can you think of a time when you thought you understood a word because it looked or sounded like a word in Spanish/Portuguese? How did you discover that the words had different meanings?

Using Visual Thesaurus

For the first part of this project, we are going to use the website Visual Thesaurus to help us figure out if pairs of words are true or false cognates.

You will be working with partners to complete the following worksheet