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Homophones Pronunciation Worksheet

Pronunciation lesson 11: Homophones by sound · Set 595 · 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 “rode”? (a) wait (b) road (c) not
  2. 2.Listen: which word sounds the same as “break”? (a) whole (b) rose (c) brake
  3. 3.Which word sounds exactly like “piece”? (a) peace (b) berry (c) cell
  4. 4.Which word sounds exactly like “pear”? (a) male (b) won (c) pair
  5. 5.Listen: which word sounds the same as “brake”? (a) break (b) meet (c) steel
  6. 6.Listen: which word sounds the same as “son”? (a) sun (b) whole (c) steal
  7. 7.Listen: which word sounds the same as “blue”? (a) blew (b) tail (c) write
  8. 8.Which word sounds exactly like “flower”? (a) by (b) flour (c) meet
  9. 9.Which word sounds exactly like “steel”? (a) steal (b) sail (c) bury
  10. 10.Which word sounds exactly like “buy”? (a) aloud (b) week (c) by
  11. 11.Which word sounds exactly like “weight”? (a) past (b) peace (c) wait
  12. 12.Listen: which word sounds the same as “not”? (a) heal (b) waist (c) knot
  13. 13.Listen: which word sounds the same as “plain”? (a) not (b) plane (c) pear
  14. 14.Which word sounds exactly like “road”? (a) hole (b) rode (c) tail
  15. 15.Which word sounds exactly like “new”? (a) tale (b) flew (c) knew
  16. 16.Which word sounds exactly like “cell”? (a) sell (b) heal (c) aloud
  17. 17.Which word sounds exactly like “rows”? (a) weight (b) eight (c) rose
  18. 18.Which word sounds exactly like “eight”? (a) flew (b) night (c) ate
  19. 19.Which word sounds exactly like “deer”? (a) tale (b) meet (c) dear
  20. 20.Listen: which word sounds the same as “pair”? (a) hear (b) sell (c) pear
  21. 21.Listen: which word sounds the same as “toe”? (a) tow (b) mail (c) steal
  22. 22.Which word sounds exactly like “mail”? (a) sail (b) no (c) male
  23. 23.Listen: which word sounds the same as “flower”? (a) sun (b) flour (c) peace
  24. 24.Listen: which word sounds the same as “knight”? (a) blew (b) bare (c) night
  25. 25.Listen: which word sounds the same as “groan”? (a) flour (b) grown (c) hole
  26. 26.Listen: which word sounds the same as “steal”? (a) won (b) plain (c) steel
  27. 27.Which word sounds exactly like “knew”? (a) tale (b) new (c) peace
  28. 28.Listen: which word sounds the same as “there”? (a) aloud (b) brake (c) their
  29. 29.Which word sounds exactly like “here”? (a) weak (b) by (c) hear
  30. 30.Which word sounds exactly like “steal”? (a) knight (b) steel (c) week
  31. 31.Listen: which word sounds the same as “hear”? (a) sale (b) pear (c) here
  32. 32.Which word sounds exactly like “sell”? (a) sale (b) cell (c) tale
  33. 33.Which word sounds exactly like “by”? (a) here (b) buy (c) meet
  34. 34.Which word sounds exactly like “waste”? (a) waist (b) knight (c) past
  35. 35.Which word sounds exactly like “tail”? (a) dear (b) tale (c) by
  36. 36.Which word sounds exactly like “right”? (a) buy (b) write (c) toe
  37. 37.Listen: which word sounds the same as “week”? (a) weak (b) hear (c) sell
  38. 38.Which word sounds exactly like “rose”? (a) deer (b) no (c) rows
  39. 39.Which word sounds exactly like “whole”? (a) mail (b) tow (c) hole
  40. 40.Listen: which word sounds the same as “new”? (a) waist (b) groan (c) knew

Answer key

  1. road
  2. brake
  3. peace
  4. pair
  5. break
  6. sun
  7. blew
  8. flour
  9. steal
  10. by
  11. wait
  12. knot
  13. plane
  14. rode
  15. knew
  16. sell
  17. rose
  18. ate
  19. dear
  20. pear
  21. tow
  22. male
  23. flour
  24. night
  25. grown
  26. steel
  27. new
  28. their
  29. hear
  30. steel
  31. here
  32. cell
  33. buy
  34. waist
  35. tale
  36. write
  37. weak
  38. rows
  39. hole
  40. knew

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