Sunday, November 28, 2010

Homophones!

Let´s watch this video and provide some examples!

16 comments:

  1. Some examples of homophones:
    1. buy (verb)
    bye (greeting)

    2. too (also)
    two (number)

    3. we´ll (contraction of "we will")
    wheel (part of a car)

    4. knows ( present form of the verb "know")
    nose (part of the face)

    5. war (a conflict)
    wore (the past form of the verb "wear")

    6. none (not one)
    nun (a member of the church)

    7. week (seven days in a week)
    weak (the opposite of strong)

    8. blue (colour)
    blew (the past form of the verb "blow")

    9. cell (a room in a prison)
    sell (verb)

    10. suite (a room in a hotel)
    sweet (the opposite of sour)

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  2. Erika,
    Great job!!*****
    You have added more examples! Fantastic!
    The idea was to make up sentences with the words mentioned in the video. Anyway, Very good work!

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  3. -I have a brother called Gaston
    I have brown EYES
    -I WRITE with a pencil
    She was RIGHT
    -I SEE with my eyes
    I went to the Dead SEA
    -I HEAR with my ears
    I am HERE
    -I love eating MEAT
    I MEET you at five o´clock
    -This t-shirt was on SALE
    I am going to SAIL
    -I want a SWEET
    I need a SUITE, please
    -I choose ice cream as a DESSERT
    There are camels at the DESERT
    -WHICH color do you prefer?
    I saw a WITCH last night at the movie

    Ilana Schapiro - LU: 1020478 Lunes - Turno mañana

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  4. Ilana,
    Great job!!!*****
    I WILL meet you at five...
    ...IN the desert
    ...IN the movie

    What about homophones here?
    -I have a brother called Gaston
    I have brown EYES

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  5. Some examples of homophones:
    - rose (past tense of rise)
    rose (the flower)
    - ad (an advertisement)
    add (put with something else)
    - sail (voyage in a sailing boat or ship)
    sale (the exchange of a commodity for money)
    - ant (picnic pest)
    aunt (relative, as in your mom’s sister)
    - be (to exist)
    bee (buzzing insect)
    - chord (musical tone)
    cord (rope)
    - weak (not strong)
    week (period of seven days)

    Agustina Bloise
    LU:1019236
    Monday morning

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  6. Oscar Chavez - LU 1027903 - Friday 7:45 amJune 21, 2012 at 1:31 PM

    1-great/grate

    -San Martin was a great person
    -GRATE the cheese into a mixing bowl.

    2-rose/rows

    -Rose (flower)
    -One ROW of cars

    3-wait/weight

    -I'm WAITing for the bus
    -The WEIGHT of Carlos is 70 kg

    4-heard/herd

    -a conversation HEARD through the wall
    -a group of animals of one kind that stay, or are kept together - a HERD of elephant(s).

    5-one/won

    -one (number)
    -She WON the lottery

    6-tea/tee

    -Tea (drink)
    -tee: The little object used to put the golf ball

    7-know/no

    -She KNOWS the answer
    -the answer is NO!!!

    8-ate/eight

    -She ATE an apple
    -Number eight

    9-knight/night

    -The knight protects the kingdom
    -You can see the moon at night

    10-son/sun

    -Father and Son walks togueter
    -It's a sunny day

    11-weak/week

    -I'm so weak, I can not defeat him
    -I have to pay the bills this week

    12-hour/our

    -I'm going to call you back within the hour
    -That's our car

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    1. Oscar,
      Super!*****
      Father and son walK together
      Look at the sun.
      (sunny is not a homophone)
      within an hour

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  7. 1.- Beet - Beat
    The salad includes beet, tomatoes, corn, and lettuce.
    Arsenal finally beat Chealsea in a very closed match.

    2.- Through - Threw
    I went through the door and I found Jeanie was hidden behind it.
    What a shame! I threw those papers you needed yesterday

    3.- Tee - Tea
    Both golfers started from the tee.
    Would you like some more tea?

    4.- Sail - Sale
    The 4 marines went to sail and never got back
    Most shops are going on sale because of the change of season

    5.- Feat - Feet
    Enrique Iglesias feat Pitbull for that song
    Go clean those dirty feets

    6.- Flu - Flew
    In general, people gets flu in winter
    What a pitty, the bird flew away

    7.- Our - Hour
    Let me introduce our cousin
    At what hour does your airplne leaves?

    Ezequiel Romero de Haz, LU: 1034295

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    1. Ezequiel,
      Great!*****
      ...hiding
      threw away
      feet
      feat is not a verb
      people geT...
      pity
      at what time does your airplane leave?
      in an hour

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  8. Some examples:

    .Write - Right
    I write letters.
    She was Rigth.

    .See - Sea
    She could see the match.
    She is sailng at the sea now.

    .Meat - Meet
    My mum cooked meat with salad for dinner.
    They will meet at the disco tonight.

    Macarena Odriozola
    Friday Morning

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  9. Macarena,
    Good job!*****
    right (spelling)

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  10. Nicolás Karpovsky
    LU: 1039499

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    Some Examples:

    > Know & No
    - I don't KNOW who are you, sorry.
    - I said NO!

    > Weak & Week
    - The last WEEK I was so WEAK that I couldn't go to the gym.

    > Sweet & Suite
    - My mother was so SWEET that she rented a room in SUITE

    > See & Sea
    - I can SEE my son swimming in the SEA

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  11. Nicolás,
    Super!*****
    ......who you are
    (the) last week....

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  12. 1)
    You are RIGHT, my eyes are brown.
    Do you WRITE this letter?
    2)
    I SEE what you mean
    I hate swimming in the SEA
    3)
    Do you HEAR what she said?
    HERE is my ticket

    Antonella Alvarenga
    LU:1025849
    Friday morning

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  13. Antonella,
    Great!*****
    Have you written this letter?
    Did you hear.......?
    Have you heard....? (no homophone related to here but you can say: Have you heard of that herd of elephants?
    Are you listening to......? ( no homophone)

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