Video summary
A pair of homophones are demonstrated being used in the same sentence, shown pictorially to represent their meaning.
Some of the example sentences include; 'I hear it鈥檚 here', 'Keeping the peace is a piece of cake', 'Don鈥檛 worry I鈥檝e seen him make a scene like this before' and 'It鈥檚 big enough to make a grown man groan'.
There is a final recap of all the homophones used with an explanation of who鈥檚 and whose; 鈥榳ho鈥檚鈥 is a contraction of 鈥榳ho is鈥, whereas 鈥榳hose鈥 is a pronoun like mine or their.
This short film is from the 麻豆社 series, Wonderful Words, a series of animated clips to support vocabulary knowledge.
Teacher Notes
This short film could be used to introduce or to reinforce the different meanings and spellings of common homophones.
Pupils could be given a passage that includes a variety of homophones, and asked to find them all.
This short film is relevant to teaching English at KS2 level in England and Northern Ireland and Second Level in Scotland.
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