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Homophones Pronunciation Worksheet

Pronunciation lesson 11: Homophones by sound · Set 210 · 40 questions
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How to say it (Same sound, different spelling): Say the word aloud — if two spellings sound the same, they are homophones. A silent letter often hides a homophone: knight = night, whole = hole, knew = new. Choose the spelling from the meaning.

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  1. 1.Which word sounds exactly like “here”? (a) deer (b) hear (c) blue
  2. 2.Listen: which word sounds the same as “one”? (a) mist (b) whole (c) won
  3. 3.Listen: which word sounds the same as “pear”? (a) pair (b) flour (c) steal
  4. 4.Listen: which word sounds the same as “whole”? (a) hole (b) weight (c) one
  5. 5.Listen: which word sounds the same as “week”? (a) weak (b) aloud (c) bare
  6. 6.Listen: which word sounds the same as “bear”? (a) rode (b) bare (c) right
  7. 7.Listen: which word sounds the same as “road”? (a) rode (b) knot (c) rows
  8. 8.Which word sounds exactly like “sell”? (a) grown (b) cell (c) night
  9. 9.Listen: which word sounds the same as “heel”? (a) weight (b) blew (c) heal
  10. 10.Which word sounds exactly like “meet”? (a) break (b) flu (c) meat
  11. 11.Listen: which word sounds the same as “weight”? (a) allowed (b) wait (c) sun
  12. 12.Which word sounds exactly like “knight”? (a) passed (b) male (c) night
  13. 13.Which word sounds exactly like “wait”? (a) right (b) whole (c) weight
  14. 14.Which word sounds exactly like “aloud”? (a) no (b) allowed (c) waist
  15. 15.Which word sounds exactly like “one”? (a) blew (b) won (c) weak
  16. 16.Listen: which word sounds the same as “deer”? (a) dear (b) maid (c) toe
  17. 17.Listen: which word sounds the same as “plane”? (a) grown (b) rows (c) plain
  18. 18.Which word sounds exactly like “there”? (a) sail (b) write (c) their
  19. 19.Which word sounds exactly like “pair”? (a) no (b) waste (c) pear
  20. 20.Listen: which word sounds the same as “eight”? (a) mist (b) piece (c) ate
  21. 21.Which word sounds exactly like “right”? (a) male (b) write (c) by
  22. 22.Which word sounds exactly like “know”? (a) eight (b) blew (c) no
  23. 23.Which word sounds exactly like “pear”? (a) new (b) pair (c) plane
  24. 24.Which word sounds exactly like “knew”? (a) new (b) piece (c) their
  25. 25.Which word sounds exactly like “berry”? (a) week (b) right (c) bury
  26. 26.Listen: which word sounds the same as “not”? (a) deer (b) steal (c) knot
  27. 27.Which word sounds exactly like “son”? (a) flew (b) sun (c) hole
  28. 28.Which word sounds exactly like “write”? (a) meet (b) plane (c) right
  29. 29.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sun”? (a) new (b) night (c) son
  30. 30.Listen: which word sounds the same as “flour”? (a) by (b) waste (c) flower
  31. 31.Which word sounds exactly like “blue”? (a) there (b) blew (c) whole
  32. 32.Listen: which word sounds the same as “cell”? (a) brake (b) sell (c) deer
  33. 33.Listen: which word sounds the same as “past”? (a) passed (b) rose (c) piece
  34. 34.Which word sounds exactly like “groan”? (a) waste (b) toe (c) grown
  35. 35.Listen: which word sounds the same as “night”? (a) knight (b) tow (c) tail
  36. 36.Listen: which word sounds the same as “son”? (a) sun (b) sea (c) bury
  37. 37.Which word sounds exactly like “sea”? (a) heel (b) here (c) see
  38. 38.Listen: which word sounds the same as “no”? (a) know (b) son (c) meet
  39. 39.Listen: which word sounds the same as “their”? (a) weight (b) maid (c) there
  40. 40.Listen: which word sounds the same as “weak”? (a) dear (b) heal (c) week

Answer key

  1. hear
  2. won
  3. pair
  4. hole
  5. weak
  6. bare
  7. rode
  8. cell
  9. heal
  10. meat
  11. wait
  12. night
  13. weight
  14. allowed
  15. won
  16. dear
  17. plain
  18. their
  19. pear
  20. ate
  21. write
  22. no
  23. pair
  24. new
  25. bury
  26. knot
  27. sun
  28. right
  29. son
  30. flower
  31. blew
  32. sell
  33. passed
  34. grown
  35. knight
  36. sun
  37. see
  38. know
  39. there
  40. week

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