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Homophones Pronunciation Worksheet

Pronunciation lesson 11: Homophones by sound · Set 538 · 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 “meet”? (a) plain (b) know (c) meat
  2. 2.Listen: which word sounds the same as “wait”? (a) mail (b) made (c) weight
  3. 3.Which word sounds exactly like “wait”? (a) peace (b) weight (c) new
  4. 4.Listen: which word sounds the same as “groan”? (a) passed (b) grown (c) whole
  5. 5.Listen: which word sounds the same as “eight”? (a) mail (b) knot (c) ate
  6. 6.Which word sounds exactly like “pair”? (a) passed (b) plain (c) pear
  7. 7.Which word sounds exactly like “flu”? (a) here (b) flew (c) one
  8. 8.Which word sounds exactly like “not”? (a) write (b) knot (c) groan
  9. 9.Which word sounds exactly like “knew”? (a) berry (b) ate (c) new
  10. 10.Listen: which word sounds the same as “blue”? (a) made (b) blew (c) night
  11. 11.Listen: which word sounds the same as “grown”? (a) bare (b) groan (c) bury
  12. 12.Listen: which word sounds the same as “dear”? (a) eight (b) made (c) deer
  13. 13.Listen: which word sounds the same as “meat”? (a) groan (b) meet (c) see
  14. 14.Which word sounds exactly like “plain”? (a) sea (b) flew (c) plane
  15. 15.Which word sounds exactly like “their”? (a) flour (b) there (c) meet
  16. 16.Which word sounds exactly like “see”? (a) sea (b) berry (c) weight
  17. 17.Listen: which word sounds the same as “bear”? (a) won (b) son (c) bare
  18. 18.Which word sounds exactly like “dear”? (a) grown (b) deer (c) here
  19. 19.Which word sounds exactly like “weight”? (a) wait (b) night (c) hole
  20. 20.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sell”? (a) cell (b) waist (c) rose
  21. 21.Listen: which word sounds the same as “road”? (a) wait (b) rode (c) rows
  22. 22.Which word sounds exactly like “son”? (a) berry (b) sell (c) sun
  23. 23.Listen: which word sounds the same as “see”? (a) sea (b) rose (c) steal
  24. 24.Which word sounds exactly like “flour”? (a) heel (b) flower (c) here
  25. 25.Listen: which word sounds the same as “by”? (a) there (b) buy (c) mail
  26. 26.Listen: which word sounds the same as “piece”? (a) sea (b) peace (c) waste
  27. 27.Listen: which word sounds the same as “bury”? (a) flew (b) berry (c) heal
  28. 28.Which word sounds exactly like “deer”? (a) steel (b) dear (c) sail
  29. 29.Listen: which word sounds the same as “blew”? (a) blue (b) meat (c) write
  30. 30.Which word sounds exactly like “flower”? (a) week (b) flour (c) berry
  31. 31.Which word sounds exactly like “mail”? (a) male (b) bare (c) their
  32. 32.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sun”? (a) tail (b) groan (c) son
  33. 33.Listen: which word sounds the same as “bare”? (a) bear (b) grown (c) steel
  34. 34.Which word sounds exactly like “steal”? (a) steel (b) flour (c) whole
  35. 35.Listen: which word sounds the same as “write”? (a) right (b) know (c) allowed
  36. 36.Listen: which word sounds the same as “rose”? (a) mail (b) waste (c) rows
  37. 37.Listen: which word sounds the same as “allowed”? (a) blue (b) aloud (c) night
  38. 38.Which word sounds exactly like “hear”? (a) steel (b) here (c) there
  39. 39.Listen: which word sounds the same as “new”? (a) flew (b) bury (c) knew
  40. 40.Listen: which word sounds the same as “tail”? (a) sell (b) tale (c) sail

Answer key

  1. meat
  2. weight
  3. weight
  4. grown
  5. ate
  6. pear
  7. flew
  8. knot
  9. new
  10. blew
  11. groan
  12. deer
  13. meet
  14. plane
  15. there
  16. sea
  17. bare
  18. deer
  19. wait
  20. cell
  21. rode
  22. sun
  23. sea
  24. flower
  25. buy
  26. peace
  27. berry
  28. dear
  29. blue
  30. flour
  31. male
  32. son
  33. bear
  34. steel
  35. right
  36. rows
  37. aloud
  38. here
  39. knew
  40. tale

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