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Here are the teacher pack items for Commonly Confused Words:
Overview In this experience, students define commonly confused words and create a visual clue for remembering the usage. Then students write sentences with the words learned. Finally they edit a passage and correct the spelling and usage errors. Students will collaborate in small groups for Scene 2. Objective Duration
The English language has many words that sound similar, are spelled almost the same, and are often confused in writing. In this experience, you will identify commonly confused terms in order to learn the appropriate usage of the words.
Objective
Mrs. Malaprop was a character in the 1775 play The Rivals by Richard Sheridan. Poor Mrs. Malaprop often mixed up her words, and she is so famous for using the wrong word that the mistake is named after her—a malapropism! Read the following malapropisms:
Choose one of the malapropisms in the list and explain it, or make up your own malapropism.
A malapropism is generally defined as the mistaken use of a word in place of a word that sounds similar, often with unintentionally humorous effect. The confused words in the malapropisms given above are:
