Homophones Homophones are words that have exactly the same sound (pronunciation) but different meanings and (usually) spelling. Common homophones list The following list of 50 homophone pairs contains only the most common homophones, using relatively well-known words. air heir eye I bare bear be bee brake break buy by cell sell cent scent cereal serial …

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Minimal pairs lists A minimal pair is a pair of words which differ only in one sound. They are a great way to help students become more aware of their difficulties with pronunciation. For example, students often struggle with the pairs “sheet” and “seat”, or “cat” and “cut”. They can really improve their pronunciation by …

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    How to pronounce –ed? The past simple tense and past participle of all regular verbs end in -ed. For example: work, worked, worked Many adjectives are made from the past participle and so end in -ed. For example: I like painted furniture. The question is, how do we pronounce the -ed? The answer …

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  How to pronounce the? Normally, we pronounce the with a short sound [ðə] But when the comes before a vowel sound, we pronounce it as [ði]. vowel sound write say a the apple [ði] apple e the egg [ði] egg i the ice-cream [ði] ice-cream o the orange [ði] orange u the ugly fruit …

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  When to say a or an? The indefinite article is a or an. But how do we know when to say a and when to say an? The rule is really very simple. It depends on the sound at the start of the following word. It does not depend on the way we write …

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Tongue twisters   A box of biscuits, a box of mixed biscuits and a biscuit mixer! A proper copper coffee pot. Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascals ran. Long legged ladies last longer. Mixed biscuits, mixed biscuits. Pink lorry, yellow lorry. Red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather. She sells sea-shells on the …

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