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but does the kind of mistakes your students make depends on their own mother tongue?asked just showing mine have mistakes too but different in term of intonation.
I sometimes give my sts such lists and tell them the task is to correct this person �s mistake - you �d be amazed how well they do when they think it �s somebody else �s mistake - they find every single little spelling mistake and fix it... But it does help - when I tell them afterwards it was made up from their own mistakes, they �re really careful the next time they write it!
Dear Robert, I believe it has nothing to do with their mother tongue, but rather homophones in English and some logic that does exist in certain irregular verbs (e.g. drink - drank - drunk is similar to the invented think - thank - thunk)
... But it does help - when I tell them afterwards it was made up from their own mistakes, they �re really careful the next time they write it!