COGNATES

Cognates are words in two languages that share a similar meaning, spelling, and pronunciation.
Los cognados son palabras en ingles que se parecen al espaol y tienen el mismo significado.

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I. Instructions: Read this paragraph and underline the word that you think are cognates. My name is Adrian Garcia. I had born in September 4, 2005. My family is from Puerto Rico. I am seven years old. I like go to the supermarket with my mother. I like to eat bananas. This week I celebrate my birthday. My favorite color is blue. My party is decorated with blue balloons. II. Write the cognates that you found.
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1) Read the text and underline the cognates: A criminalist is a person who searches for, collects, and preserves physical evidence in the investigation of crime and suspected criminals. They work in city or regional crime labs and do more than the forensic scientists and crime lab technicians there. They are expected to be on call 24 hours a day to go out to crime scenes, when and where detectives are stumped. Some jurisdictions require the presence of a criminalist at all major crime scenes. The services of a criminalist are used at the beginning of a case. By contrast, the services of a forensic scientist are primarily used at the end, or courtroom testimony phase, of a case. All crime lab employees must be ready to offer expert testimony in court, however. Criminalists usually get called to testify about matters of contamination, cross-contamination, and chain of custody, but many of them (senior criminalists) have developed an interpretive expertise, for example, in blood spatter analysis, trace evidence, impression evidence, or drug identification, as well as skills at crime reconstruction and sometimes profiling. 2) Write the cognates in English and Spanish: English Spanish

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3) Choose the meaning according to the context:

a) Criminalist is: a fact a crime a person

b) Testify is: to speak to speak in front of a judge to affirm something algo

c) Forensics is: a field of criminal investigation a person a kind of evidence