NARRATOR
Looks like you’re in a heap of trouble!
[MUFFLED SQUEALING]
NARRATOR
Oh, you asked for a flower, but he covered you in flour!
When two words sound the same but mean something different like flower and flour, we call them homophones.
[TROMBONE NOISES]
NARRATOR
Shh. Listen. Can you hear that? Look who’s here!
(sighs) Thought I’d hidden that.
Hear and here are homophones too, just like bear…
[MONSTER SCREAMS]
NARRATOR
And um… bare.
[WOLF WHISTLE]
NARRATOR
Ah-huh. Well, that got rid of him…
Right you guys, it’s almost night time.
No, night time, not knight time!
Aww, I give up…
Homophones
Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings. They also have different spellings.These are some homophones that often confuse people:
- 'here' e.g. "put it down here" and hear e.g. "Speak louder, I can't hear you"
- 'see' e.g. "it's so dark, I can't see anything" and 'sea' e.g. "let's go swim in the sea"
- 'be' e.g. "will you be my friend?" and 'bee' e.g. "the bumble bee was on the flower"
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