False Friends? Actual and Actuality

Have you listened about this word? False friends are all those words that in English have a completely different meaning from Spanish (as an example) but they sound very similar in appearance.

What are the mistakes in these sentences?

• What do you think about the actual crisis?

• In the actuality he's living abroad.

The mistakes are in actual and actuality.

Actual is truthful, real.
Actuality is reality.

Correct sentences:

• What do you think about the present crisis?

• At the present he is living abroad.

Correct sentences with Actual and Actuality.

• Those were her actual words.

• His novel blurs the division between dreams and actuality.

More false friends soon in this blog or in our English classes.