Tongue Twisters, 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

TONGUE TWISTERs

1. Fred fed Ted bread and Ted fed Fred bread
2. Selfish shellfish
3. Twelve twins twirled twelve twigs
4. If a dog chews shoes, whose shoes does he choose?
5. How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
6. He threw three free throws
7. She sells seashells on the seashore
8. Which witch switched the Swiss wristwatches?
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11. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
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14. Betty Botter bought a bit of butter
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17. I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop
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20. The shells she sells by the seashore are sea shells for sure
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23. Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew
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25. If practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice, I’m perfectly practiced and practically perfect.
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TONGUE TWISTERs

1. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers
2. Betty Botter bought a bit of butter
3. I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop
4. The shells she sells by the seashore are sea shells for sure
5. Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew
6. If practice makes perfect and perfect needs practice, I’m perfectly practiced and practically perfect.

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

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