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Homophones Pronunciation Worksheet

Pronunciation lesson 11: Homophones by sound · Set 832 · 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) cell (b) bare (c) ate
  2. 2.Which word sounds exactly like “break”? (a) deer (b) brake (c) blue
  3. 3.Listen: which word sounds the same as “not”? (a) cell (b) knot (c) past
  4. 4.Listen: which word sounds the same as “blew”? (a) by (b) write (c) blue
  5. 5.Listen: which word sounds the same as “tale”? (a) write (b) tail (c) waist
  6. 6.Listen: which word sounds the same as “rows”? (a) ate (b) bury (c) rose
  7. 7.Which word sounds exactly like “flour”? (a) dear (b) by (c) flower
  8. 8.Listen: which word sounds the same as “their”? (a) not (b) there (c) right
  9. 9.Which word sounds exactly like “night”? (a) flu (b) rose (c) knight
  10. 10.Which word sounds exactly like “blue”? (a) blew (b) road (c) sea
  11. 11.Which word sounds exactly like “sell”? (a) flower (b) cell (c) peace
  12. 12.Listen: which word sounds the same as “tail”? (a) break (b) made (c) tale
  13. 13.Which word sounds exactly like “right”? (a) flu (b) steal (c) write
  14. 14.Which word sounds exactly like “no”? (a) there (b) know (c) berry
  15. 15.Which word sounds exactly like “their”? (a) son (b) hear (c) there
  16. 16.Listen: which word sounds the same as “there”? (a) hear (b) night (c) their
  17. 17.Which word sounds exactly like “steal”? (a) steel (b) mail (c) passed
  18. 18.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sale”? (a) sail (b) male (c) not
  19. 19.Listen: which word sounds the same as “night”? (a) knight (b) bare (c) waste
  20. 20.Listen: which word sounds the same as “waist”? (a) whole (b) flu (c) waste
  21. 21.Listen: which word sounds the same as “new”? (a) deer (b) flew (c) knew
  22. 22.Listen: which word sounds the same as “heal”? (a) heel (b) rode (c) sun
  23. 23.Listen: which word sounds the same as “toe”? (a) night (b) tow (c) week
  24. 24.Listen: which word sounds the same as “cell”? (a) sell (b) aloud (c) flew
  25. 25.Listen: which word sounds the same as “flower”? (a) wait (b) their (c) flour
  26. 26.Listen: which word sounds the same as “waste”? (a) heal (b) sail (c) waist
  27. 27.Listen: which word sounds the same as “here”? (a) groan (b) hear (c) rode
  28. 28.Listen: which word sounds the same as “rode”? (a) road (b) sell (c) one
  29. 29.Listen: which word sounds the same as “meat”? (a) rows (b) flower (c) meet
  30. 30.Which word sounds exactly like “flower”? (a) brake (b) flour (c) rows
  31. 31.Which word sounds exactly like “meet”? (a) meat (b) dear (c) missed
  32. 32.Listen: which word sounds the same as “pair”? (a) not (b) pear (c) berry
  33. 33.Listen: which word sounds the same as “aloud”? (a) knew (b) allowed (c) tow
  34. 34.Which word sounds exactly like “write”? (a) by (b) waist (c) right
  35. 35.Which word sounds exactly like “pear”? (a) pair (b) steal (c) meat
  36. 36.Which word sounds exactly like “whole”? (a) here (b) knight (c) hole
  37. 37.Listen: which word sounds the same as “son”? (a) tow (b) tail (c) sun
  38. 38.Listen: which word sounds the same as “peace”? (a) piece (b) wait (c) meet
  39. 39.Which word sounds exactly like “groan”? (a) grown (b) break (c) sun
  40. 40.Listen: which word sounds the same as “bury”? (a) whole (b) toe (c) berry

Answer key

  1. ate
  2. brake
  3. knot
  4. blue
  5. tail
  6. rose
  7. flower
  8. there
  9. knight
  10. blew
  11. cell
  12. tale
  13. write
  14. know
  15. there
  16. their
  17. steel
  18. sail
  19. knight
  20. waste
  21. knew
  22. heel
  23. tow
  24. sell
  25. flour
  26. waist
  27. hear
  28. road
  29. meet
  30. flour
  31. meat
  32. pear
  33. allowed
  34. right
  35. pair
  36. hole
  37. sun
  38. piece
  39. grown
  40. berry

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