Confusing Verbs

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Confusing Verbs 
 
 
LOOK, WATCH and SEE 
 
TO LOOK(parecer, aparentar, olhar) 
(parecer) But eventually I started to look human again. 
(aparentar) A London-based minister should not be able to throw him out of the 
country just to look tough. 
(olhar) And we want to look at these three first. 
TOLOOK ALIKE (parecer-se) 
But they all have one thing in common: They all need to look like something. 
So we took his hand and we painted it to look a little bit more like Eddie's. 
 
TO WATCH (espiar, fiscalizar, olhar, vigiar, assistir a) 
(espiar) Watch him while I am out. 
(fiscalizar) The supervisor is here to watch your job. 
(olhar) And you have to watch and take care of each other. 
(olhar) Mr. President, I hope that you will not need to watch the clock while I am 
speaking. 
(vigiar) We in Parliament have to watch over those scales and ensure that they 
do not tip at the expense of openness. 
(assistir a) To watch a demo of how your Arc Touch Mouse works, 
Over the Christmas holiday there will be millions of European citizens going out to 
watch football. 
TO SEE(atender, preocular-se, ver, enxergar, presenciar) 
(atender) I am seeing for your request now 
(preocupar-se) Once again, it has to be said that the Commission appears to be 
in more of a hurry to see the principles of free competition applied than... 
(ver) I want to see the girls chasing after him. 
(ver) " If you can, what d' you want to see? " 
(enxergar) I can’t see from so far away. 
(presenciar) Sejamos mais categóricos, queremos presenciar um êxito. 
 
REMEMBER: We see something static, unmoving. We also see the things around 
us, perhaps without paying much attention to them. We look at something in 
order to pay more attention to its appearance. We watch something when we 
want to know what happens (so therefore we generally watch something that is 
moving or that requires our attention). We use look when we want to direct 
someone's attention to something. 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kERYtDAoEW8 
 
JUST TAKE A LOOK AT: The Sound Of Silence BY Simon & Garfunkel 
(...) And in the naked light I saw 
Ten thousand people, maybe more 
People talking without speaking 
People hearing without listening (...) 
 
 
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kERYtDAoEW8