Same sound, different spelling, different words ('Homophones')



Same sound, different spelling, different words ("Homophones")

The table below shows pairs of words that are often confused because they sound exactly alike, even though they are spelled differently. For each line, write a German translation for the words and circle the one that matches the picture in the middle.

|German |English | |English |German |

| |be |[pic] |bee | |

| |berry |[pic] |bury | |

| |brake |[pic] |break | |

| |dessert |[pic] |(to) desert* | |

| |flower |[pic] |flour | |

| |hear |[pic] |here | |

| |hole |[pic] |whole | |

| |made |[pic] |maid | |

| |meat |[pic] |meet | |

| |knight |[pic] |night | |

| |pair |[pic] |pear | |

| |peace |[pic] |piece | |

| |plain |[pic] |plane | |

| |rain |[pic] |reign | |

| |right |[pic] |write | |

| |sail |[pic] |sale | |

| |some | |sum | |

| | |2 + 2 = 5 | | |

| |son |[pic] |sun | |

| |sew |[pic] |so | |

| |steal |[pic] |steel | |

| |threw |[pic] |through | |

| |wait |[pic] |weight | |

| |weak | |week | |

| | |MTWTF | | |

| |wear |[pic] |where | |

| |weather |[pic] |whether | |

| |which |[pic] |witch | |

| |won |[pic] |one | |

* "desert" as a noun means "Wüste" and is pronounced differently - (dĕz´ ərt(

Here are a few more – write in the German translation:

their ____________ / there ____________ / they're ____________

to ____________ / too ____________ / two ____________

knew ____________ / new ____________ / gnu ____________

buy ____________ / by ____________ / bye ____________

know ____________ / no ____________

passed ____________ / past ____________

red ____________ / read (rĕd( - (past tense of read (rēd() ____________

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