HOMOPHONES

GRADE 8
OUTCOMES AND INTRODUCTION
Outcomes
 This lesson’s aim is to help learners revise and remember words that sound
the same, but mean different things.
 The lesson also deals with words that can be confusing or difficult to spell.
 Learners will acquire editing skills
Introduction
The word homophone is made from two words:

 homo- Greek word "homos", meaning "same"

 phone - Greek word "phone", meaning "sound“

Homophones are words that sound the same, but have different spellings and
meanings, e.g. flower and flour.

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1. Outcomes and Introduction

2. Examples of homophones

3. Editing Paragraph

4. Test your knowledge

5. List of homophones

6. Conclusion
EXAMPLES OF HOMOPHONES

Flower: A rose is a flower.

Flour: You need some flour to make the birthday
cake.

Bear: A bear is a large furry animal.

Bare: She walked on the beach with bare feet.

See: She couldn't see without her glasses.

Sea: I went swimming in the sea while on
holiday.

Week: A week is seven days long.

Weak: He was too weak to lift the heavy box.

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 EDITING A PARAGRAPH
Group yourselves in pairs and edit the following paragraph. Note that the
underlined words have been misspelt because of the way they sound. Rewrite
the paragraph replacing the underlined words with the correct words.

They’re no miss steaks in this newsletter because we used special soft wear witch
checks your spelling. However, it can knot correct errors inn punctuation ore
usage: and it will not fined words witch are miss used butt spelled rite. Four
example; a paragraph could have many flaws but would be passed by the spell
checker. Therefore, the message is that proof reading is knot eliminated. It is
still very much required

FEEDBACK
One of you should give feedback to the class.

Compare your edited paragraph with the following (click) answers

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TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
Work Individually: Complete the following sentences by clicking
on the correct word.

1. I don't know (weather / whether) to go out or not.

2. Houses were being built on this (site / sight)
3. We had to (higher / hire) a car while we were on holiday.
4. We were only (allowed / aloud) to visit at certain times.

5. She had to go to (caught / court) to prove she was innocent.

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 CONCLUSION
Usually homophones are in groups of two (e.g. our, hour), but very
occasionally they can be in groups of three (to, too, two) or even four.
If we take our "bear" example, we can add another word to the
group“
 bare (naked)
bear (the animal)
bear (to tolerate)
“Our bear cannot bear to be bare at any hour”
WORKING IN PAIRS

Click list of homophones and from each pair of words, work out their
meanings by creating two sentences that explain the difference
between them. Each one of you should choose a word from each pair
of words and create your own sentences. Compare the sentences and
discuss meanings
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 List of other homophones

Hair / hare Heal / heel Bear / bare

Here / hear Hour / our Find / fined

Made / maid
Week / weak Saw / Sore
One / won
See / sea New / knew Threw / through
Piece / peace
Check / cheque Stair / stare
Plane / Plain
Break / brake Shore / sure
Together with your partner, add to the list
Bored / board another twenty homophones that you know

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 ANSWERS
 There are no mistakes in this newsletter because we used
special software which checks your spelling. However it cannot
correct errors in punctuation or usage and it will not find
words which are misused but spelt right. For example; a
paragraph could have many flaws but would be passed by the
spell checker. Therefore, the message is that proof reading is
not eliminated. It is still very much required.

 Well done!!!!!!!!

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