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.
Lesson Plan Content:
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.
p. 1
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
p. 2
Written by Alex Case for UsingEnglish.com © 2020
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
p. 3
Written by Alex Case for UsingEnglish.com © 2020
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