WARNING!!!!

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WARNING!!!!

• BE ALL EARS
• THIS LESSON HAS THE POWER TO
• GIVE YOU COLD FEET
• MAKE YOU BENT OUT OF SHAPE
• OR
• -PUT A FEATHER IN YOUR CAP

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HOMOPHONESHOMONYMS andIDIOMS
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What are they?

• WHY do I need to know them?
• Because..

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• They lurk everywhere in our languagejust waiting
  to confuse you
• But
• NOT ANYMORE!!

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What do we call these words?
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Homophones

• Words that sound alike but have different
  meanings
• Break the word apart
• Homo same
• Phon - sound

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Words like

• To, too, and two
• Or, oar
• Herd, heard
• Sale, sail
• Meet, meat
• Pour, poor
• Tail, tale
• Mail, male
• Rain, reign

• Bare, bear
• Theyrethey are theirownership therelocation
• Yourownership youreyou are

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What do we call these words?
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Homonyms

• are a group of words that share the same spelling
  and/or pronunciation but have different meanings
• Break it down
• Homo same
• Nym - name

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Words like Bow
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bow - To bend forward at the waist in respect
(e.g. "bow down")
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bow - the front of the ship (e.g. "bow and
stern")
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bow - the weapon which fires arrows (e.g. "bow
and arrow")
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bow - a kind of tied ribbon (e.g. bow on a
present, a bowtie, hair bow)
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bow - to bend outward at the sides (e.g. a
"bow-legged" cowboy)
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bough - a branch on a tree. (e.g. "when the bough
breaks...")
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What do we call these phrases?
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Idioms

• -a phrase which means something different from
  what it says

Idioms are not the same thing as slang. Idioms
are made of normal words that have a special
meaning known by almost everyone. Slang is
usually special words that are known only by a
particular group.
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Does Amelia Bedeliaknow idioms?What does she
do when she comes across these phrases?
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Examples

• Break a leg
• A way to wish someone good luck.
• Live it up
• Live wild, Enjoy life , go to a lot of parties
• Kick the bucket
• To die.
• Shed crocodile tears
• To cry about something but without actually
  caring.
• wild goose chase
• Useless journey or pursuit

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Some Common English Language Idioms

• Idioms involving colors
• in the red
• feeling blue
• to act yellow
• Idioms involving
• body parts
• give me a hand
• get someones ear
• a knee jerk reaction

• Idioms involving weather
• under the weather
• raining cats and dogs
• a cloud with a silver lining
• Idioms involving animals
• horse around
• fish for compliments
• in the doghouse
• Idioms involving eating or food
• fed up
• chew the fat
• go nuts

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Are you still confused?

• What is a homophone?
• What is a homonym?
• What is an idiom?