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Homonyms
Autor: Mgr. Kateřina Kozlová
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TRUE HOMONYMS are words which have the
same spelling and pronunciation but different
meaning.
Examples:
left (past simple of leave) x left (opposite of
right)
bank (Bank of England) x bank (bank of a river)
fine (= good, well) x fine (= penalty)
Think about other examples.
kind, may, sink, tire, wave, park, light, box, bark…
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HOMONYMS can be also divided into HOMOGRAPHS and
HOMOPHONES.
HOMOGRAPHS are words which have the same spelling but
the different pronunciation and the diffierent meaning.
Example:
row [rou](a boat) x row [rau] (= argument)
minute [minit] (=60 seconds) x minute [majnu:t] (=tiny)
HOMOPHONES are words which have the same pronunciation
but the different spelling and the different meaning.
Example:
know x no
hare x hair
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HOMOGRAPHS – Read the sentences and
pronounce the underlined words correctly:
• The girl I live with knows a good pub with live music.
• I was very sorry. I saw tears in her eyes but I really
didn´t want to tear her jacket.
• The violinist in the bow tie took a bow.
• He´s the lead singer of the group ´Lead piping´.
• What a row from the last house in the row!
• Does he still suffer from his war wound?
• I wound the rope around the tree to strengthen it
against the gale.
• It´s quite hard to wind in the sails in this wind.
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KEY HOMOGRAPHS – Read the sentences and
pronounce the underlined words correctly:
• The girl I live with knows a good pub with live music. liv, laiv
• I was very sorry. I saw tears in her eyes but I really didn´t want to tear her
jacket. ti:ǝs, teǝ
• The violinist in the bow tie took a bow. bou, bau
• He´s the lead singer of the group ´Lead piping´. li:d, led
• What a row from the last house in the row! rau, rou
• Does he still suffer from his war wound? wu:nd
• I wound the rope around the tree to strengthen it against the gale. waund
• It´s quite hard to wind in the sails in this wind. waind, wind
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HOMOPHONES - Complete the sentences with a
suitable word and give a homophone to each one:
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waste
Watching reality show on TV is such a ……… of time. waist
sole
There is a hole in the ………
of my shoe. soul
heir
The eldest son of the monarch is the ………
to the throne.air
You are notallowed
……… to talk during the test. aloud
through
He´s going ………
a rather difficult period of his life at the
moment. threw
I´m serving spaghetti, can you grate
……… the cheese, please? great
whether
She asked him ………
he loved her forever. weather
Don´t buy it now, there´ll be big sales
……… in the shops after
Christmas. sails
piece
May I have another ………. of cake, pleas? peace
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Match the two parts and read the jokes
based on homonymy
1) What did the big chimney
say to the little chimney?
2) What did the south wind
say to the north wind?
3) Why did the man take his
pencil to bed?
4) Why is history the
sweetest lesson?
5) Why can´t a steam engine
sit down?
6) What´s pale and trembles
at the bottom of the sea?
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a) Because it´s got a tender
behind.
b) A nervous wreck.
c) Because it´s full of dates.
d) He wanted to draw the
curtains.
e) Let´s play draughts.
f) You´re too young to
smoke.
KEY: 1f, 2e, 3d, 4c, 5a, 6b
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Other examples of homophones:
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tail/tale
leak/leek
break/brake
sun/son
hole/whole
knight/night
slay/sleigh
stare/stair
bare/bear
sell/cell
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hare/hair
here/hear
raise/rays
grease/Greece
scene/seen
fir/fur
for/four
road/rowed/rode
ant/aunt
root/route
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ad/add
aisle/I´ll/isle
ate/eight
be/bee
maid/made
which/witch
die/dye
fined/find
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TEST
I Write 2 sentences with each word (homographs) – with different meaning,
different pronunciation. Write also the phonetic transcript of those words:
1 row
2 lead
3 live
4 read
II To each word write a homophone:
1 weight
2 nose
3 meet
4 flu
III Write two different words to the phonetic transcript:
1 [auǝ]
2 [flauǝ]
3 [heǝ]
4 [blu:]
IV Correct the spelling in the sentences:
1 He through the ball hire in the heir.
2 Students are not aloud to right on the blackbored.
3 Make piece – no wore.
4 I went to the caught. Their I sore him playing tennis.
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KEY TEST
I Write 2 sentences with each word (homographs) – with different meaning,
different pronunciation. Write also the phonetic transcript of those words:
1 row row/rau 2 lead li:d/led 3 live liv/laiv 4 read ri:d/red
II To each word write a homophone:
1 weight wait 2 nose knows 3 meet meat 4 flu flew
III Write two different words to the phonetic transcript:
1 [auǝ] hour, our 2 [flauǝ] flower, flour 3 [heǝ] her, hair
4 [blu:] blew, blue
IV Correct the spelling in the sentences:
1 He through the ball hire in the heir. He threw the ball higher in the air.
2 Students are not aloud to right on the blackbored. Students are not allowed to
write on the blackboard.
3 Make piece – no wore. Make peace – no war.
4 I went to the caught. Their I sore him playing tennis. I went to the court. There I
saw him playing tennis.
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Použité zdroje
• SOARS, John and Liz. Headway Upper-Intermediate. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-19-433559-3.
Všechny objekty použité k vytvoření prezentace jsou součástí SW Microsoft Office nebo jsou vlastní originální tvorbou
autora.
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