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Homophones Pronunciation Worksheet

Pronunciation lesson 11: Homophones by sound · Set 928 · 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 “aloud”? (a) weak (b) allowed (c) write
  2. 2.Listen: which word sounds the same as “mail”? (a) male (b) flour (c) meat
  3. 3.Listen: which word sounds the same as “hear”? (a) bare (b) blue (c) here
  4. 4.Which word sounds exactly like “blue”? (a) blew (b) peace (c) new
  5. 5.Listen: which word sounds the same as “know”? (a) groan (b) no (c) hear
  6. 6.Which word sounds exactly like “hear”? (a) here (b) past (c) waste
  7. 7.Which word sounds exactly like “break”? (a) weak (b) buy (c) brake
  8. 8.Which word sounds exactly like “flour”? (a) won (b) flower (c) sail
  9. 9.Which word sounds exactly like “sail”? (a) buy (b) son (c) sale
  10. 10.Listen: which word sounds the same as “plain”? (a) meat (b) plane (c) brake
  11. 11.Which word sounds exactly like “bear”? (a) right (b) bare (c) week
  12. 12.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sail”? (a) won (b) sale (c) grown
  13. 13.Which word sounds exactly like “allowed”? (a) aloud (b) mist (c) pair
  14. 14.Which word sounds exactly like “steal”? (a) tail (b) steel (c) weight
  15. 15.Listen: which word sounds the same as “blue”? (a) knot (b) week (c) blew
  16. 16.Which word sounds exactly like “peace”? (a) allowed (b) road (c) piece
  17. 17.Which word sounds exactly like “meat”? (a) meet (b) not (c) heel
  18. 18.Listen: which word sounds the same as “hole”? (a) whole (b) cell (c) rode
  19. 19.Which word sounds exactly like “here”? (a) hear (b) new (c) weight
  20. 20.Which word sounds exactly like “eight”? (a) ate (b) buy (c) night
  21. 21.Which word sounds exactly like “new”? (a) buy (b) knew (c) grown
  22. 22.Listen: which word sounds the same as “meat”? (a) there (b) hole (c) meet
  23. 23.Listen: which word sounds the same as “flower”? (a) there (b) flour (c) rows
  24. 24.Which word sounds exactly like “groan”? (a) heel (b) grown (c) flew
  25. 25.Which word sounds exactly like “weight”? (a) wait (b) flu (c) know
  26. 26.Which word sounds exactly like “by”? (a) tale (b) steal (c) buy
  27. 27.Listen: which word sounds the same as “sun”? (a) know (b) son (c) dear
  28. 28.Listen: which word sounds the same as “berry”? (a) flu (b) bury (c) there
  29. 29.Which word sounds exactly like “plane”? (a) heal (b) here (c) plain
  30. 30.Which word sounds exactly like “steel”? (a) allowed (b) steal (c) meat
  31. 31.Which word sounds exactly like “night”? (a) passed (b) knight (c) heal
  32. 32.Which word sounds exactly like “ate”? (a) eight (b) know (c) sell
  33. 33.Listen: which word sounds the same as “meet”? (a) week (b) meat (c) deer
  34. 34.Which word sounds exactly like “bare”? (a) write (b) bear (c) son
  35. 35.Which word sounds exactly like “week”? (a) weak (b) sale (c) no
  36. 36.Which word sounds exactly like “berry”? (a) passed (b) night (c) bury
  37. 37.Which word sounds exactly like “whole”? (a) road (b) hole (c) piece
  38. 38.Which word sounds exactly like “brake”? (a) break (b) groan (c) no
  39. 39.Listen: which word sounds the same as “here”? (a) rose (b) hear (c) piece
  40. 40.Which word sounds exactly like “blew”? (a) blue (b) mail (c) buy

Answer key

  1. allowed
  2. male
  3. here
  4. blew
  5. no
  6. here
  7. brake
  8. flower
  9. sale
  10. plane
  11. bare
  12. sale
  13. aloud
  14. steel
  15. blew
  16. piece
  17. meet
  18. whole
  19. hear
  20. ate
  21. knew
  22. meet
  23. flour
  24. grown
  25. wait
  26. buy
  27. son
  28. bury
  29. plain
  30. steal
  31. knight
  32. eight
  33. meat
  34. bear
  35. weak
  36. bury
  37. hole
  38. break
  39. hear
  40. blue

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