Cognates (SOLO SEXTO)

In a technical sense, two words that have a common origin are cognates. Most often, cognates are words in two languages that have a common etymology and thus are similar or identical. For example, the English "kiosk" and the Spanish quiosco are cognates because they both come from the Turkish kosk.

When you don't know the meaning of a word in a text, first try to see if it is a cognate, then you wouldn't have to look for it in the dictionary. But be careful... not all the words that look alike are cognates, some are false cognates!! (Also called false friends!!)

With the next exercises on cognates you will discover you know words in English you have no idea you knew...
Exercise 1
Exercise 2


Remember to write your results, your name and group as following:

Exercise 1       93%
Exercise 2       2 bad marks  (mention only the bad marks)
Nadia Espinosa 618.


Good luck and remember cognates are very similar to the words in Spanish...