Imagine a Spanish speaker says embarazada (em-bah-rah-SAH-dah). It looks a lot like the English word embarrassed. Would you guess they feel awkward?
You would be wrong. That word primarily means something else entirely. Guessing is useful, and it is also dangerous. Today you are language detectives on the hunt for traps.
You are language detectives. Listen as we play each feeling word on the board, then say it back together. Look across each row for twins that look almost the same, and for total strangers that look nothing alike.
Feeling words can look alike across languages. Food and drink words can trick you too. Now hunt pairs on the board, one pair at a time.
For each pair we will vote with hands: true match (cousin words that really mean the same) or false friend (looks similar but means something else). Guess first, then check the reveal. A wrong guess is useful detective data, not a failure.
Open your copy. Copy two false friends from the board. For each one write the lookalike word and what it really means.
False friends we found (copy any two):
If the board still shows different pairs from the hunt, copy two of those instead (word + real meaning).
Quick detective round on the feeling words we already met. Watch the shared bingo card on the board. When the teacher plays a word and you spot it, put your thumbs up or call out which language it was. We hunt a full line together on the board. No personal cards needed.
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