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Mistakes vs Errors

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    It is about differentiation the mistakes and errors for teacher training sessions
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  • A student says, 'I have 20 years' instead of 'I am 20 years old.
    Error: Literal translation from L1
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  • I am going to conduct an activity about mistakes and errors pls help me to create it. so i would like to use bamboozle game pls help me to create the questions it should be students mistakes and errors from typical daily classroom situation
    Error (misunderstanding of the word's meaning)
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  • In a math class, a student solves the equation 3x + 2 = 14 and writes the solution as x = 4.
    Mistake (error in the solving process)
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  • A student writes the sentence "My teacher and me went to the park" in a grammar exercise.
    Mistake (incorrect pronoun usage)
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  • In a literature class, a student analyzes the theme of a short story as "the importance of friendship" when the actual theme is "the consequences of greed."
    Error (misunderstanding of the story's central theme)
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  • While presenting a science project, a student consistently mispronounces the word "photosynthesis" as "photo-sin-thesis."
    Mistake (slip in pronunciation)
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  • A student uses "affect" when they mean "effect," or vice versa
    Error (confusion of similar-sounding words).
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  • A student uses "your" instead of "you're."
    Mistake (common misspelling).
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  • A student confuses hypothesis with theory.
    Error (misunderstanding of scientific terminology).
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  • A student incorrectly labels parts of a diagram (e.g., confuses the nucleus with the mitochondria).
    Mistake (lack of attention to detail).
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  • A student uses the word "literally" incorrectly (e.g., "I was literally dying of laughter").
    Error (misunderstanding of word meaning).
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  • A student writes, "The cat sat on the mat, it was fluffy."
    This is a mistake in mechanics.
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