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 nohare 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

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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:

• Watching reality show on TV is such a ……… of time.• There is a hole in the ……… of my shoe.• The eldest son of the monarch is the ……… to the throne.• You are not ……… to talk during the test.• He´s going ……… a rather difficult period of his life at the

moment.• I´m serving spaghetti, can you ……… the cheese, please?• She asked him ……… he loved her forever.• Don´t buy it now, there´ll be big ……… in the shops after

Christmas.• May I have another ………. of cake, pleas?

waste waist

sole soulheir air

allowed aloudthrough

threwgrate great

whether weather

sales

sailspiece 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?

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:

• tail/tale• leak/leek• break/brake• sun/son• hole/whole• knight/night• slay/sleigh• stare/stair• bare/bear• sell/cell

• hare/hair• here/hear• raise/rays• grease/Greece• scene/seen• fir/fur• for/four• road/rowed/rode• ant/aunt• root/route

• ad/add• aisle/I´ll/isle• ate/eight• be/bee• maid/made• which/witch• die/dye• fined/find

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TESTI 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.11. říjma 2013

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KEY TESTI 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.11. říjma 2013

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Použité zdroje• SOARS, John and Liz. Headway Upper-Intermediate. Oxford: Oxford

University Press, 1993. ISBN 0-19-433559-3.

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