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Homophones Pronunciation Worksheet

Pronunciation lesson 11: Homophones by sound · Set 88 · 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 “waist”? (a) hear (b) waste (c) there
  2. 2.Which word sounds exactly like “blue”? (a) blew (b) cell (c) sale
  3. 3.Which word sounds exactly like “hole”? (a) whole (b) night (c) heel
  4. 4.Which word sounds exactly like “by”? (a) buy (b) male (c) night
  5. 5.Listen: which word sounds the same as “blew”? (a) cell (b) knew (c) blue
  6. 6.Which word sounds exactly like “groan”? (a) grown (b) right (c) one
  7. 7.Which word sounds exactly like “rows”? (a) there (b) bear (c) rose
  8. 8.Listen: which word sounds the same as “whole”? (a) rose (b) missed (c) hole
  9. 9.Listen: which word sounds the same as “week”? (a) weak (b) rode (c) blew
  10. 10.Which word sounds exactly like “toe”? (a) bare (b) road (c) tow
  11. 11.Which word sounds exactly like “rose”? (a) see (b) rows (c) not
  12. 12.Which word sounds exactly like “made”? (a) tale (b) their (c) maid
  13. 13.Listen: which word sounds the same as “toe”? (a) ate (b) break (c) tow
  14. 14.Listen: which word sounds the same as “one”? (a) male (b) write (c) won
  15. 15.Which word sounds exactly like “bear”? (a) past (b) bare (c) blue
  16. 16.Listen: which word sounds the same as “see”? (a) road (b) write (c) sea
  17. 17.Listen: which word sounds the same as “right”? (a) pair (b) weak (c) write
  18. 18.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sun”? (a) week (b) son (c) there
  19. 19.Listen: which word sounds the same as “meat”? (a) blew (b) meet (c) eight
  20. 20.Listen: which word sounds the same as “hole”? (a) whole (b) eight (c) son
  21. 21.Which word sounds exactly like “sea”? (a) by (b) see (c) male
  22. 22.Which word sounds exactly like “bury”? (a) pear (b) berry (c) wait
  23. 23.Listen: which word sounds the same as “blue”? (a) bare (b) week (c) blew
  24. 24.Listen: which word sounds the same as “break”? (a) brake (b) write (c) blue
  25. 25.Which word sounds exactly like “plane”? (a) flu (b) here (c) plain
  26. 26.Which word sounds exactly like “flour”? (a) flower (b) whole (c) right
  27. 27.Which word sounds exactly like “weak”? (a) by (b) week (c) allowed
  28. 28.Which word sounds exactly like “bare”? (a) bear (b) eight (c) plain
  29. 29.Listen: which word sounds the same as “bare”? (a) tale (b) bear (c) week
  30. 30.Listen: which word sounds the same as “deer”? (a) by (b) mist (c) dear
  31. 31.Listen: which word sounds the same as “know”? (a) maid (b) no (c) sail
  32. 32.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sea”? (a) heal (b) see (c) right
  33. 33.Listen: which word sounds the same as “not”? (a) won (b) groan (c) knot
  34. 34.Listen: which word sounds the same as “rose”? (a) rows (b) pair (c) groan
  35. 35.Listen: which word sounds the same as “steal”? (a) steel (b) buy (c) past
  36. 36.Which word sounds exactly like “whole”? (a) weak (b) cell (c) hole
  37. 37.Which word sounds exactly like “flew”? (a) hear (b) flu (c) mist
  38. 38.Listen: which word sounds the same as “male”? (a) mail (b) blue (c) aloud
  39. 39.Which word sounds exactly like “allowed”? (a) aloud (b) eight (c) new
  40. 40.Listen: which word sounds the same as “berry”? (a) groan (b) bury (c) sale

Answer key

  1. waste
  2. blew
  3. whole
  4. buy
  5. blue
  6. grown
  7. rose
  8. hole
  9. weak
  10. tow
  11. rows
  12. maid
  13. tow
  14. won
  15. bare
  16. sea
  17. write
  18. son
  19. meet
  20. whole
  21. see
  22. berry
  23. blew
  24. brake
  25. plain
  26. flower
  27. week
  28. bear
  29. bear
  30. dear
  31. no
  32. see
  33. knot
  34. rows
  35. steel
  36. hole
  37. flu
  38. mail
  39. aloud
  40. bury

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