HOMOGRAPHS

All of us perhaps know what a homophone is. A word with similar sound but different spelling. That’s what every high school marm tells. It is easily confused and many times are there that they turn creepy. but imagine our plight if the words have same spelling? This comes via good practice of reading and it is easy to identify. These words do not have same meaning and differs to the context and has different origin. These word most often also have the same sound and pronunciation. The following are a list of homographs for a quick reference.




1. Flat a. a small apartment b.level

2. Fan a. a devoted admirer b. a machine to wind air

3. Can a. a coke container b. to be able to/ability

4. Cue a. a long sticker in the game of pool b. a signal

5. Ball a. a formal dance b. a round object

6. August a. the month b. inspring presence

7. Chop a. the jaw of an animal b to cut

8. Close a. near by b. to shut

9. Boil a. a liquid’s state while heating b. a inflammation of the skin

10. Hide a. the skin of animal b. to keep off site

11. Like a. to be pleased b. similar

12.pupil a. a student b. part of eye

13. school a.group of fish b.a learning institute

14. soil a.to make dirty b.ground

15.wake a. to rouse after sleep b.waves following ship

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Every foreign language learner’s first step is to munch on as much words along with the verbs to build in vocabulary. That’s a real good move. But how many of us put that into use? By use I mean making use of these words in speaking or writing or recognizing the same when it is spoken by someone. Rarely few of us apply it. To do this, why not one start with a topic at classroom level or with a group of four and discuss about a hero and a villain. Make the participants into two groups. Each group has to speak only for the group they belong to. In this way the traits, the character and the like come out. This might be a noun, adjective, verb a pronoun or any that would fall in a parts of speech. When this is recorded/jotted on a paper this can help one to make use of the same in sentences later. This eventually can be developed into a story and there arises a new character totally.