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Homophones Pronunciation Worksheet

Pronunciation lesson 11: Homophones by sound · Set 328 · 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 “eight”? (a) sail (b) night (c) ate
  2. 2.Listen: which word sounds the same as “break”? (a) pair (b) brake (c) weak
  3. 3.Listen: which word sounds the same as “night”? (a) won (b) knight (c) tale
  4. 4.Listen: which word sounds the same as “by”? (a) sea (b) toe (c) buy
  5. 5.Listen: which word sounds the same as “steel”? (a) bear (b) sale (c) steal
  6. 6.Listen: which word sounds the same as “steal”? (a) toe (b) steel (c) heal
  7. 7.Listen: which word sounds the same as “piece”? (a) peace (b) meet (c) write
  8. 8.Which word sounds exactly like “plane”? (a) meat (b) grown (c) plain
  9. 9.Which word sounds exactly like “flour”? (a) no (b) steel (c) flower
  10. 10.Listen: which word sounds the same as “here”? (a) road (b) hear (c) right
  11. 11.Listen: which word sounds the same as “rode”? (a) road (b) week (c) groan
  12. 12.Which word sounds exactly like “road”? (a) waist (b) steel (c) rode
  13. 13.Listen: which word sounds the same as “see”? (a) bury (b) sea (c) knew
  14. 14.Which word sounds exactly like “sun”? (a) knight (b) bury (c) son
  15. 15.Listen: which word sounds the same as “plain”? (a) waste (b) plane (c) know
  16. 16.Which word sounds exactly like “knew”? (a) hole (b) new (c) night
  17. 17.Listen: which word sounds the same as “rose”? (a) hole (b) sun (c) rows
  18. 18.Which word sounds exactly like “there”? (a) write (b) sea (c) their
  19. 19.Listen: which word sounds the same as “groan”? (a) waste (b) grown (c) buy
  20. 20.Listen: which word sounds the same as “son”? (a) sun (b) knight (c) week
  21. 21.Which word sounds exactly like “new”? (a) see (b) knew (c) plane
  22. 22.Listen: which word sounds the same as “blew”? (a) grown (b) blue (c) eight
  23. 23.Which word sounds exactly like “wait”? (a) there (b) weight (c) son
  24. 24.Which word sounds exactly like “maid”? (a) made (b) weak (c) break
  25. 25.Listen: which word sounds the same as “week”? (a) whole (b) made (c) weak
  26. 26.Listen: which word sounds the same as “meet”? (a) meat (b) sun (c) wait
  27. 27.Listen: which word sounds the same as “pair”? (a) deer (b) there (c) pear
  28. 28.Which word sounds exactly like “one”? (a) see (b) won (c) sell
  29. 29.Which word sounds exactly like “brake”? (a) piece (b) break (c) eight
  30. 30.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sea”? (a) flower (b) blue (c) see
  31. 31.Which word sounds exactly like “mist”? (a) maid (b) missed (c) allowed
  32. 32.Which word sounds exactly like “bury”? (a) flour (b) berry (c) heel
  33. 33.Which word sounds exactly like “waist”? (a) steal (b) blue (c) waste
  34. 34.Which word sounds exactly like “plain”? (a) plane (b) tale (c) sun
  35. 35.Listen: which word sounds the same as “bare”? (a) bear (b) buy (c) peace
  36. 36.Which word sounds exactly like “male”? (a) son (b) mail (c) buy
  37. 37.Which word sounds exactly like “hear”? (a) blew (b) here (c) plane
  38. 38.Which word sounds exactly like “know”? (a) rode (b) no (c) blue
  39. 39.Which word sounds exactly like “week”? (a) weak (b) flour (c) brake
  40. 40.Which word sounds exactly like “break”? (a) by (b) won (c) brake

Answer key

  1. ate
  2. brake
  3. knight
  4. buy
  5. steal
  6. steel
  7. peace
  8. plain
  9. flower
  10. hear
  11. road
  12. rode
  13. sea
  14. son
  15. plane
  16. new
  17. rows
  18. their
  19. grown
  20. sun
  21. knew
  22. blue
  23. weight
  24. made
  25. weak
  26. meat
  27. pear
  28. won
  29. break
  30. see
  31. missed
  32. berry
  33. waste
  34. plane
  35. bear
  36. mail
  37. here
  38. no
  39. weak
  40. brake

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