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Friday 16 January 2009

False Friends Quiz / Test de Falsos Amigos

I - Is there a false friend lurking in these sentences? Fill in the blank space with a Y if there is, or an N if there isn´t.

___1. Jane is participating in a TV contest.
___2. Johnny, who is five years old, goes to college.
___3. We finally agreed. We arrived at a compromise.
___4. The argument of the film was very unusual.
___5. Did you use the stairs or the elevator?
___6. Mary is sitting on a bank in the park.
___7. Peter is a sailor. He is in the army.
___8. Will you stop complaining? Other kids have worse problems.
___9. Jill hurt her arm with an arm.
___10. Football teams often have mascots.
___11. He bought jeans, shirts, jackets - a lot of rope.
___12. He´s won many prizes. He´s an exit.
___13. Did you take the final exam today?
___14. I can´t support my parents. They´re too strict.
___15. Marie is very sensitive. It´s easy to make her feel hurt and offended.

II - Fill in the blanks with: crane, dessert, gracious, grocery, horn, library, regular, remove, resume, salad, sane, sensible, signature, spade, zealous.

1. You must ________ your shoes when you enter a mosque.
2. I´m not very hungry. I´ll just have a ________.
3. When John left, Jane _________ her work.
4. It´s not big and it´s not small. It´s size is ________.
5. He´s studying at the ________.
6. I bought some food at the ________.
7. A unicorn is a horse with a ________.
8. I want chocolate cake for _________.
9. They call the Queen "_________ Majesty."
10.They moved the piano with a ________.
11. He is digging in the garden with a _______.
12. The leader of that sect has many _______ followers.
13. He does strange things because he isn´t ________.
14. What a complicated _________ Bill has, and what peculiar handwriting.
15. Jane has a lot of common sense. She´s very _________.



Sancho

How would you translate El que avisa no es traidor?





Don Quijote

Traitors don´t give notice. But traitor isn´t a false friend, except, of course, he or she is. I mean, as a word, it isn´t. Or is it?

You can find a fine list of false friends here:
http://www.saberingles.com.ar/curious/falsefriends.html

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