Homonyms

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Homonyms

• One mourning while weighting four the school bus,
  I felt a pane in my heal. It seams I had a whole
  inn my shoes and a peace of glass was cot inside.

How many homonyms can you spot?!?!
2
Match the words below to the correct picture.
Write the answers in your writing notebook. Write
down which words are homonyms of each other.
3
Choose the correct homonym to complete this
sentence.

• (a) The boy put shampoo on his (hare/hair).
• (b) Mum put some (flower/flour) in the cake mix.
• (c) James didn't have a very good
  (nights/knights) sleep.
• (d) A rabbit is a bit like a (hare/hair).
• (e) Tony got chased by a large (bare/bear).

4
The words below have homonyms. Write down what
they are, e.g. sun/son in your writing notebook.

• plane
• right
• see
• there
• which
• where
• be
• for
• here
• knew
• no
• so

5
Choose the correct homonym to complete the
sentences.

• (a) Lucy couldn't wait to (meet/meat) her friend.
• (b) Andrew (missed/mist) the bus.
• (c) The mouse got his (tale/tail) caught.
• (d) Glen has a long (wait/weight) for the bus.
• (e) The old man had no money, he was (pour/poor).
• (f) "Could you (pour/poor) the orange juice,
  please?"
• (g) Mark got a letter in the (mail/male).

6
Chose the correct meaning of scale in each
sentence. Write the meaning down in your writing
notebooks.

• The scale shows that the town is 15 miles away.
• Many dinosaurs had scales.
• I can play scales on the piano.
• She put the meat on a scale.
• He scaled the high mountain.

7
Write down the homonyms that were misused in the
story below. Rewrite the story using the correct
words in your writing notebook.

• Four to weaks, eye have Ben baking cakes with
  read icing. Ewe can know waist flower and sugar,
  sew eye eight every won of the cakes. Of coarse,
  my waste is getting bigger. Eye am getting as
  big as a hoarse. The plane fact is, I blue my
  diet.

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L.A. Challenge

• Try and find homonyms for some of these words
• allowed, ball, base, beach, boy, check, days,
  die, due, faint, fur, great, in, key, lane, leek,
  war, waste, might, week, packed, pale, place,
  rain, read, profit, seen, road, sight
• The person with the most matches in 2 minutes
  wins a prize!!!!

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HONORS Challenge

• Think of as many homonyms as you can think of.
  You also need to know their meanings.
• For example A board is a piece of wood, and
  bored is how you feel when theres nothing to do.
• Write your homonyms down, along with their
  meanings.
• Make up a riddle that have a homonym as the
  answer.
• For example
• QWhat do you call a teddy with no clothes?
• A A bare bear!
• The person with the best riddle gets a prize!!!