Spanish English Cognates

What are cognates?

• Words that mean the same thing

• Words that look, sound, and mean the same thing in two different languages

• words that look the same in different languages

• words that sound the same

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

What is the Spanish cognate for "attention"

• atención

• actión

• atracción

• animal

What is the Spanish cognate for "comic"

• hilario

• cosmico

• cómico

• basura

What is the English cognate for "romantico"

• romantic

• roman

• rude

• rare

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

What is the English cognate for "familia"

• Family

• Familiar

• Female

• Finally

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

What is the Spanish cognate for "Magic"

• mágico

• mace

• manly

• muscle

What are "cognates"?

• words that are similar to words in another language, have the same meaning and are from the same ancestor language

• mental process of thinking about your thinking

• a gear tooth, formerly especially one of hardwood or metal, fitted into a slot in a gearwheel of less durable material

• a type of footwear made in part or completely from wood.

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

A false cognate is ____.

• A word that appears to be related to a word in another language but has a different usage or meaning.

• A type of women's shoes that are supposed to be made of wood but are made of plastic.

• A faulty piece of metal in machinery.

• A misleading thought about your metacognition.

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

English and Spanish share many root words from...and a few root words from...

• Latin; Greek

• French; Roman

• Italian; German

• trees and carrots

Tags

CCSS.L.5.4B

CCSS.L.6.1E

What is the English cognate for 'nación'?

• Nation

• National

• Native

• Nature