Homophones

Fighting at school _______ everybody.

• effects

• affects

Celebrities have a strong _________ on public opinion.

• effect

• affect

My mood can ______ my actions.

• affect

• effect

We may never know the full ________ of the oil spill on the wildlife.

• effect

• affect

I am smarter ________ my older brother.

• than

• then

Homophones are

• Two or more words that SOUND the same but have different spelling and meanings

• Two or more words that are SPELLED the same but have different meanings

• Phrases that mean something other than the literal meaning of its individual words

Match the following vocabulary words with thier correct examples

• Homograph

• 
• Idiom

• Homophone

• Bare and Bear

• 

The Whether Man's name is an example of ​ (a)   because "whether" and "weather" are ​ (b)  

• wordplay

• homophones

• homographs

• fishsticks

• i

Which of the following pairs are homophones?

• Flour - Flower

• Bear - Bare

• Write - Right

• All of the above

Choose the correct homophone to complete the sentence: 'I need to _____ the book to understand the story.'

• Read

• Reed

• Reid

• Red