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Silent Letters and Homophones

A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS

A card game based on Othello to practise words with silent letters and words that are pronounced the same, with cards for five different levels of classes.

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Silent Letters and Homophones Reversi Memory Game

Instructions for teachers
Choose the cards below which are most useful/ suitable for your students, preferably with
a range of different silent letters and silent letters in different positions. Cut up the cards
with the word with the silent letter and its homophone still attached.

Give out one pack of cards per group of two to four students and ask them to fold the
cards so that the word with a silent letter is on one side and the homophone is on the
other, with either side up. The first student should choose one of the cards, pronounce the
word that they can see, maybe identify the silent letter if there is one, then spell the word
with the same pronunciation on the other side of the card. If two or more options are given,
they only need to spell one. They then turn over to check.

If they are correct, the card stays turned over and they can try another, continuing until
they make a mistake. The next person can then try the same cards (in the other direction),
other cards, or probably a mixture of both, stopping whenever they don’t correctly guess
the other side of one of the cards. The winner is the first person to do all the cards in one
go, or the person with the longest unbroken stretch of correct guesses during the game.

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Written by Alex Case for UsingEnglish.com © 2020

Levels 1 and 2

hour

our

knew

new

know

no

knows

nose

muscle

mussel

wear

where

witch

which

why

Y

wood

would

rap

wrap

write

right/ rite

scene

seen

Levels 3 and 4

aisle/ isle

I’ll

billed

build

dam

damn

air

heir

him

hymn

knight

night

knot

not

scent

sent

sawed/ soared

sword

we’ll

wheel

weather

whether

hole

whole

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Level 5

ascent

assent

climbs

climes

colonel

kernel

core

corps

faux

foe

the gnats

the Nats

gnaw

nor

knap

nap

knead/ kneed

need

knit

nit

plum

plumb

pseud

sued

rains/ reins

reigns

wet

whet

way/ weigh

whey

whine

wine

holy

wholly

rec

wreck

rest

wrest

retch

wretch

ring

wring

rote

wrote

rung

wrung

rye

wry

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Written by Alex Case for UsingEnglish.com © 2020

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