Homophone Lesson
Background
Learners often have problems with using correct spellings and meanings.
In Skills for Life, students have to undertake tests in speaking and listening. Traditionally these tests have been carried out by using cassette tapes. However, with the technology now available to make digital recordings, these tests can be recorded on to computer or a mobile device.
Audio files can be placed on the network for learners to access or downloaded onto their own mobile devices, they can also be access from home via the college VLE (Virtual Learning Environment).
The following pages demonstrate how a lesson using an electronic audio recording (podcast) has been used in a classroom, with a group of motor vehicle students, using a mix of technology and traditional paper-based resources. The lesson in based on a homophone exercise.
Homophones are words which sound the same but are spelt differently. Some examples of these are:
| Allowed, Aloud | Ate, Eight | Bawl, Ball |
| Band, Banned | Bear, Bare | Be, Bee |
| Been, Bean | Beach, Beech | Beat, Beet |
| Boar, Bore | Board, Bored | Boarder, Border |
| Boy, Buoy | Buy, By, Bye | Ceiling, Sealing |
| Censor, Sensor | Cent, Scent, Sent | Cereal, Serial |
| Currant, Current | Cheap, Cheep | Days, Daze |
| Dear, Deer | Dew, Due | Die, Dye |
| Flew, Flu, Flue | Dual, Duel | Draft, Draught |
| Heal, Heel, He'll | Hall, Haul | Hair, Hare |
| Knew, New | Hear, Here | Hour, Our |
| Know, No | Knight, Night | Knot, Not |
| Made, Maid | Leak, Leek | Licence, License |
| Medal, Meddle | Mail, Male | Meat, Meet |
| Peace, Piece | Meter, Metre | Packed, Pact |
| Sauce, Source | Right, Rite, Wright, Write | Road, Rode |
| Sea, See | Soar, Sore | Scene, Seen |
| Sole, Soul | Sew, So, Sow | Side, Sighed |
| Steal, Steel | Some, Sum | Son, Sun |
| Sweet, Suite | Stationary, Stationery | Stile, Style |
| There, Their, They're | Thyme, Time | Way, Weigh, Whey |
| We'd, Weed | Which, Witch |