Scribd
Upload
65 views

41 Nought On The Confusion Scale: (7.7 Use of English)

Uploaded by

Алена Андреевна Пыко
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
65 views

41 Nought On The Confusion Scale: (7.7 Use of English)

Uploaded by

Алена Андреевна Пыко
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 2

Photocopiable resources – instructions

41 Nought on the confusion
scale
(7.7 Use of English)
Aim: To practise easily confused words.
Interaction: Individual/Pairs.
Type of activity: Gap filling and information exchange.
Time: 12–20 minutes.
Materials: One worksheet per student.
In class: (1) Fold the worksheets along the dotted line.
(2) Tell students that they are going to work individually
at first. Hand out the folded worksheet and ask students
to choose the correct options in questions 1–12. Remind
them not to unfold their sheets. Set a time limit
of 4 minutes. (3) When everyone has finished, get students
to place the numbers of the questions below the ‘ruler’,
which is supposed to help them realise how clear
the highlighted words are to them. Alternatively, students
can write scale values next to the sentences. (4) Check
the answers with the whole class. Ask students if they
actually made any mistakes with the words they thought
of as particularly confusing. (5) Ask students to read all
the questions again in silence, paying special attention
to those they made mistakes in. (6) Tell students to turn
the folded page over and complete the same questions
from memory. Set a time limit of 2 minutes. When they
are ready, get them to unfold their worksheets and check
the words against the first part. (7) The final stage
depends on how much time you want to devote to the
exercise. For example, you can tell students to work in pairs
and ask each other only those questions that they made
mistakes in (either in both parts or only in one of them).
If students did not make any mistakes, they can ask each
other the questions of their choice. Alternatively, students
can work in pairs and take turns to answer all the questions.

Answers:
1 loose  2 present  3 alone  4 raise  5 advise 
6 breath  7 lay  8 economical  9 affect 
10 conscientious  11 late  12 compliment

© Pearson Education Limited   Focus 4 Second Edition PHOTOCOPIABLE


Resource 41 Nought on the confusion scale
7.7 Use of English (easily confused words)

CLEAR 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 UNCLEAR

1 Have you got any loose / lose change in your pocket?


2 Are you satisfied with your actual / present level of English?
3 Would you mind going on holiday alone / lonely?
4 Why did you last rise / raise your voice?
5 Do you ever advice / advise adults about computers?
6 How long can you hold your breathe / breath underwater?
7 When was the last time you lied / lay on the ground and looked up at the stars?
8 What is the most economical / economic way to get around where you live?
9 Does the weather often affect / effect your mood?
10 Do you consider yourself a conscious / conscientious student?
11 How lately / late are you allowed to stay out on Saturdays?
12 How easy is it for you to accept a compliment / complement?

My score: _______ /12

FOLD

1 Have you got any _________________ change in your pocket?


2 Are you satisfied with your _________________ level of English?
3 Would you mind going on holiday _________________?
4 Why did you last _________________ your voice?
5 Do you ever _________________ adults about computers?
6 How long can you hold your _________________ underwater?
7 When was the last time you _________________ on the ground and looked up at the stars?
8 What is the most ________________ way to get around where you live?
9 Does the weather often _________________ your mood?
10 Do you consider yourself a _________________ student?
11 How _________________ are you allowed to stay out on Saturdays?
12 How easy is it for you to accept a _________________?

My score: _______ /12

© Pearson Education Limited   Focus 4 Second Edition PHOTOCOPIABLE

You might also like