Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 2-6

Tongue twisters

How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood

Sometimes English is quite easy...

And sometimes English is hard...

Today

Learn about letters and sounds

Learn why letters need different sounds

Learn the difference between homophones, homonyms and homographs

There are LETTERS and there are SOUNDS.
Of which do you have more in English?

1. Letters
2. Sounds

Phonetic chart

vowels: klinkers (zonder dat je mond elkaar hoeft aan te raken

consontants: medeklinkers: luchtverstoring

One of the ways English pronounciation can be difficult:

Homograph, homonym, homophone

Which word parts are familiar from Latin?

Homonym

- Same sound

- Same spelling

- Different meaning

Give an example of a Homonym

Homograph

- Different sound

- Same spelling

- Different meaning

Give an example of a Homograph

Homophone

- Same sound

- Different spelling

- Different meaning

Give an example of a Homophone

What homophones/graphs/nyms did you pick up?

Homograph

Homonym

Homophone

Same pronunciation, different spelling, different meaning

Same pronunciation, same spelling, different meaning

Same spelling, different pronunciation, different meaning

Close is a homonym. Create 2 sentences with each meaning

Welke vragen heb je nu nog?

Als ik jou nu in het kort vraag om het verschil uit te leggen, wat zou je dan zegggen? (/voorbeeldwoorden)

Tongue twisters

She sells seashells down by the seashore 

Homophones - Homonyms - Homographs

Goals:

- Understand the difference between these terms

- Enrich your vocab

difficult to pronounce:

- this, three, Thai

- Wednesday, chocolate, memory

- live, leave; hit, heat

Dictation

Dictation:

Across the road, I saw something coming. Through my glasses, I immediately saw that it was definitely a car. I hoped it was the ice cream truck, what a disappointment.

What do you hear?

1. fit
2. feet

Which word is the odd one out?

1. plays
2. space
3. pace

Rhyming

Rhyming in English can be difficult because not all words that look similar sound the same: fear - bear 

Try to make a rhyme of at least 10 sentences with 5 different rhyming combinations (AA,BB,CC,DD)