TEACHER'S NOTES Homophones Type of activity Matching pairs (Pelmanism), iS ‘To identify words with the same sound but different spelling, Task To write down two words with the same sound. and then play a matching game in two teams, Preparation Make a copy of the worksheet for every four indicated. students in the class and cut up a Timing 20 minutes, Procedure 1 Read out the following words and ask your students to try to write down two different spellings for each word son (sun), bare (ear), lox (flacer), week (ea), hax (are), sail (sal), eight (ate), paie (pear), mail (nal), board (bore), meat (meet), won (oe). 2. Ask your stucents to compare what they have written in pairs or small groups. 3. Check in open class. Go through all the words above, checking meaning and pronunciation, 4 Tell your students they are going to play a game in which they have to match two pictures (of the words they have just written) that sound the same (e.g. sit and son) 5 Divide the class into pairs and ask one pair to play against another pair. Give each group of four a copy of the worksheet, cut into cards as indicated. Ask them to put all the cards face down on the table. 6 Each team takes it in turns to turn two cards over. The object of the game is to tum over two cards which have the same sound. Ifa player does this, they keep the pair of casds. As the player turns over the card, they must say the ‘word, otherwise they cannot claim the pair 7 If the cards are not a matching pais they are ‘tured over again and left for the next pair to try: 8 The team with the most pairs of cards at the end of the game are the winners. 9 The worksheets can also be used for individual classwork or homework (see Follow up stage 1, below). Follow up 1 Students could follow up the class game by doing the writing and matching activity as Tomework: Give each student a copy of the warksheet. Ask them to wilea word in each box and then match the two words with the same ound by drawing a Line connecting them. 2 Ask early finishers to find homophones for these words: way (aeigh), right (write) hear (here), red (read), wear (where), sum (gome), ew (6), there (hein, for oun, by (bv) ri mo ™ E 7oe ee ee ee iii < eae ay J Gp & & tHe Ae