Hi guys and welcome back to love English I'm Leila and today's lesson pretty
simple, 21 words pronunciation of 21 words which should be straightforward
but it's not today we're looking at 21 homophones now what is a homophone? well..
'homo' comes from the Greek word meaning 'same' in this case in English a homophone
is words that have the same pronunciation but very different meaning
and spelling what's the problem the problem is spelling if you don't know
the difference in spelling and the difference in meaning between these two
homophones actually it could be more than two then your spelling could really
suffer and don't feel bad it's not just non-native speakers but it's native
speakers as well we often make mistakes when we're writing emails text messages
hopefully not academic essays but it could happen. So I'm going to go through
just 21 homophones there are many more but these are the ones that I think are
most frequently misspelled, so I'll go through the pronunciation and I'll
explain the difference in meaning and spelling before we get started don't
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you ready for today's lesson 21 Homophones!
the words you frequently misspell!
right number one 'meet' the noun M-E-A-T MEAT as in a burger chicken the meat
that you eat but MEET is the verb m-e-e-t nice to meet you!
number two flower that flower is beautiful!
you can smell the flowers f-l-o-w-e-r but 'flour' you need flour to make a cake is
f-l-o-u-r! very frustrating! Number three this is a common area for
misspellings there their or they're - 'there' meaning over there -a place there
possessive adjectives 'their' books. 'They're' THEY ARE- they're here. be careful with
that one! Number four 'hair' she has very long hair
but hare as in the noun is a large kind of rabbit so h-a-r-e hare, the rabbit, h-a-i-r
the hair on your head. Number five HEAR h-e-a-r look at the spelling 'ear' our ear!
the H HEAR but h-e-r-e- come HERE some direction come here. CHECK did you check your
homework the verb check. CHEQUE C-H-E-Q-U-E the cheque - the paper that you write on
when you want to give a cheque to someone with money so they can cash that cheque
in a bank. Number seven another word that's commonly misspelled weather, weather, weather
weather weather w-e-a-t-h-e-r as in the weather is sunny
it's raining it's cold but WHETHER w-h-e-t-h-e-r is 'if' whether you're here or not. (conjunction)
Whether you like it or not! Number eight whose, whose meaning
belonging whose bag is that. But 'who's' meaning WHO IS, who's there? who's there?
Number nine, which or Witch. Which would you prefer tea or coffee? but which W I TCH
is actually a witch with a long pointy nose something you would see maybe in a
Halloween movie. to - too- two - to the preposition T oh I went to the party too
with a double OO meaning 'also' I like you too! I'll have a coffee too and t-w-o - two the
number, nice and simple. Number 11 Sole s-o-l-e means the base of your foot
the sole of your shoe underneath actually sole but SOUL s-o-u-l
is your soul, your spirit, if you believe in that kind of thing?
BYE - BUY - BY as in bought to purchase he buys
chocolate I buy chocolate i as in goodbye b-y-e and BY is a
preposition meaning the person that did something ( or place/position ) it was built by him.
Number 13, BOARD meaning chalkboard classroom board a flat piece of hard
cardboard for example cardboard a cardboard box board! But BORED b-o-r-e-d
(homophones are so boring) is an adjective but same pronunciation there.
ATE - is to eat the past tense he ate the chocolate, but eight e-i-g-h-t is
the number. dear- meaning 'Dear Sabrah, ...how are you? ( term of endearment)
or a way of corresponding in emails or letters. when you address the person or
expensive! but d-e-e-r- two E's R is dear as in Bambi
SEA SEA is water- we traveled by sea but s-e-e is to look to watch you see something, it's verb wait
WAIT! w-a-i-t meaning wait stop one moment but w-e-I-g-h-t meaning , the noun to weigh. how
much is your weight? how much do you weigh? weight
right, right or wrong that's correct. but WRITE with a silent w means
the verb to actually put pen to paper and make words on the paper to write
of course also right and left or right and left in your case nineteen steal - s-t-e-a-l
is the verb to take something that is not yours but s-t-e-e-l is the metal
SO confusing! SON s -o- n means son and daughter your male child but s-u-n is the
Sun sunshine same pronunciation and finally through- threw bit of a tricky
spelling as well but through t-h-r-o-u-g-h means to go through something it's a
preposition - it's a form of movement we went through the tunnel but t-h-r-e-w is
the past of throw to throw the ball he threw the ball. There we go 21 homophones!
pretty quick simple lesson but hopefully you guys will make sure to correct your
spelling and not make those mistakes even in a text message guys don't do it
and of course you do need to practice so #homework!
look in the comments section below I've put an exercise there for you to copy
and paste in your comment section and I will check your answers make sure that
you choose the correct spelling so the meaning is right and of course you can
also write some of your own sentences personalizing the language is super
important so don't forget to do that thank you so much for watching see you
soon