English Lesson on Homophones - Same Sound Different Meaning PART 1

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Free English Lessons - Homonyms are words that sound the same but have different meanings. When studying intermediate English you will find many words that are pronounced the exact same but have multiple meanings. This video shows you many examples of homophones which are words that sound the same but have multiple meanings.

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What's up guys, welcome to another lesson. Today we are going to go over parts of speech, more specifically words called Homonyms. What are Homonyms? Homonyms are words.... they are going to sound the same, they are going to have different meanings. This is kind of where English gets difficult. There's a lot of these words and they are enough to confuse people and drive them crazy. Keep at it, you will get it. You will pick it up very fast. This is going to be a two part series. I might move kind of quickly but that's why you have the video and you can rewind it and replay it. So, we are going to break homonyms down, the first category is going to be Homophones. Where does this come from? Well, The root word is (HOMO) which means (The Same) and (Phone) which means the (sound). So we have Homo-Phone. It's no Homo-Phone its Homophone and these are going to be words that have..... They are going to have the same sound, different spelling and also a different meaning. So, the first example I am going to give you is band/banned. You have band and banned. Well, what is the first one band, like I could say, The Jonas brothers are a very crappy band. They play in the band ( music sounds). Like a band (air guitar gestures). The next one is going to to be banned as in Donald Trump said that seven countries of Immigrants are banned from coming to America. So banned as in they are not allowed. You got banned from the bar because you got drunk and you started a fight. So, you have band... The musical band or it could also be like a rubber band. You have a rubber band (fooof). You could fling it at someone. It goes around your money. If you have a lot of money, you would need a lot of rubber bands. You have banned as in you're not allowed, you're excluded, you're banned. Now you have jeans and also genes. See they sound the same. These are words, they are going to sound the same and in speech it'll drive you crazy. So jeans, He bought a new pair of Levi's jeans, denim jeans, as in the pants. You have genes as in.... Genes, He is from a good gene pool as in the DNA. Your genes, your make up, your DNA structure, Genes. You are going to have eye, which is eye. That eye. You would say, wow that girl beautiful eyes. Eye and you have I as in me, as in I am going to tell that girl that she has beautiful eyes. If she only had one eye well, you would say she has a beautiful eye. But I is me. So the next is male and mail. Like today i got the mail. Right Here, the mail, from the mail service, the postal delivery service and they gave me a bunch of bills and I don't want to pay them. Then you have male as in the gender because there's two, male and then there is female. Male being a man, female being a woman. Another one we have, these are all common now, these are things you are going to need to know. You have past and passed. Past as in , in my past I was a little kid. In my past I hated learning English. Then you have passed as in If I took a test, I passed my test. Also you could be driving down the road and you passed a Police Officer. Hopefully you weren't speeding, hopefully he didn't give you a ticket. But you drove passed him you went passed him. Like with your test you passed the next grade. You are going to have meat and meet. The first meat is , I like to eat T-bone steak. It's a type of meat as in the dead carcass of an animal so that is going to be meat. The next meet is to meet somebody. Like, how did we meet each other? It's nice to meet you. Well, we met in English class on youtube. That is going to be that one right there.
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Great video! Thank you for helping others, it is very nice to see someone sharing knowledge.
You should do a video about common slang, sayings, and made up words like fantabulous!

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