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Homophones Pronunciation Worksheet

Pronunciation lesson 11: Homophones by sound · Set 256 · 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.Listen: which word sounds the same as “road”? (a) wait (b) rode (c) knot
  2. 2.Which word sounds exactly like “write”? (a) meat (b) right (c) their
  3. 3.Which word sounds exactly like “rows”? (a) meet (b) rose (c) deer
  4. 4.Which word sounds exactly like “hear”? (a) their (b) weight (c) here
  5. 5.Listen: which word sounds the same as “flu”? (a) blew (b) flew (c) waist
  6. 6.Listen: which word sounds the same as “plain”? (a) deer (b) plane (c) waist
  7. 7.Which word sounds exactly like “heel”? (a) heal (b) night (c) male
  8. 8.Listen: which word sounds the same as “blew”? (a) wait (b) rows (c) blue
  9. 9.Listen: which word sounds the same as “flower”? (a) heel (b) tow (c) flour
  10. 10.Listen: which word sounds the same as “tow”? (a) rows (b) toe (c) sun
  11. 11.Which word sounds exactly like “won”? (a) rode (b) no (c) one
  12. 12.Which word sounds exactly like “whole”? (a) hole (b) new (c) knot
  13. 13.Which word sounds exactly like “road”? (a) rode (b) eight (c) buy
  14. 14.Which word sounds exactly like “berry”? (a) made (b) piece (c) bury
  15. 15.Which word sounds exactly like “piece”? (a) sun (b) allowed (c) peace
  16. 16.Which word sounds exactly like “grown”? (a) flour (b) groan (c) plane
  17. 17.Which word sounds exactly like “blue”? (a) tail (b) pair (c) blew
  18. 18.Which word sounds exactly like “male”? (a) rose (b) mail (c) knew
  19. 19.Listen: which word sounds the same as “by”? (a) bare (b) buy (c) know
  20. 20.Listen: which word sounds the same as “allowed”? (a) mail (b) aloud (c) no
  21. 21.Which word sounds exactly like “bare”? (a) bear (b) dear (c) blue
  22. 22.Listen: which word sounds the same as “hole”? (a) whole (b) mist (c) bear
  23. 23.Listen: which word sounds the same as “made”? (a) maid (b) son (c) flew
  24. 24.Listen: which word sounds the same as “piece”? (a) mist (b) peace (c) flour
  25. 25.Which word sounds exactly like “mail”? (a) mist (b) male (c) one
  26. 26.Listen: which word sounds the same as “past”? (a) by (b) passed (c) flower
  27. 27.Which word sounds exactly like “flew”? (a) hole (b) rode (c) flu
  28. 28.Which word sounds exactly like “see”? (a) mist (b) bury (c) sea
  29. 29.Which word sounds exactly like “sun”? (a) son (b) break (c) cell
  30. 30.Listen: which word sounds the same as “passed”? (a) past (b) see (c) son
  31. 31.Which word sounds exactly like “new”? (a) one (b) knew (c) maid
  32. 32.Which word sounds exactly like “right”? (a) write (b) flew (c) bare
  33. 33.Listen: which word sounds the same as “meet”? (a) blew (b) meat (c) past
  34. 34.Which word sounds exactly like “buy”? (a) new (b) peace (c) by
  35. 35.Listen: which word sounds the same as “won”? (a) week (b) bare (c) one
  36. 36.Listen: which word sounds the same as “berry”? (a) mist (b) dear (c) bury
  37. 37.Which word sounds exactly like “passed”? (a) plane (b) past (c) son
  38. 38.Listen: which word sounds the same as “groan”? (a) steel (b) hole (c) grown
  39. 39.Which word sounds exactly like “son”? (a) steal (b) sun (c) blew
  40. 40.Which word sounds exactly like “cell”? (a) missed (b) ate (c) sell

Answer key

  1. rode
  2. right
  3. rose
  4. here
  5. flew
  6. plane
  7. heal
  8. blue
  9. flour
  10. toe
  11. one
  12. hole
  13. rode
  14. bury
  15. peace
  16. groan
  17. blew
  18. mail
  19. buy
  20. aloud
  21. bear
  22. whole
  23. maid
  24. peace
  25. male
  26. passed
  27. flu
  28. sea
  29. son
  30. past
  31. knew
  32. write
  33. meat
  34. by
  35. one
  36. bury
  37. past
  38. grown
  39. sun
  40. sell

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