Hello there today I want to tell you what you should do if you want to understand English homophones
And not get frustrated every time when you hear them in the conversation with other people
and moreover if you follow my today's advice
You will be able to transfer English homophones that you already have in your passive memory
into your active one
And use them like every day
Okay, not every day. But at least when it's appropriate, of course
So English homophones, huh
Can seem pretty difficult no
Yeah
but guys don't get upset
because today I've prepared for you a set of actions that you can try and you will see how
Easy, it can be for you to memorize English homophones
and use them without any kind of frustration
So, what do you need to do?
let me show you
there are four steps
Step number one is to find all the homophones with the same pronunciation
Step number two is to look up the meanings in a very good dictionary because you guys need to understand
What are the words that you are going to work with?
And you must understand their meanings Otherwise, it doesn't work. No
Step number three is to find as many as possible example sentences
or phrases with these English homophones
And practice their pronunciation out loud
As much as possible till you feel that you pronounce all these phrases all these sentences really easily
it's like so
Effortlessly for you.
It's so
Natural and it's like it's like you have been using these phrases forever
And then there is a step number four which is to make your own sentences with these English homophones
And of course practice them as much as possible and try to use them in your conversations
with other people
Okay, guys, would you like to see how it works
Sure, you would
So let me show you how to implement this set of actions with one pair of English
homophones that I used in my previous video lesson, by the way
Have you seen my previous video lesson?
if you haven't yet
So I highly recommend to go after this video
And watch that one and learn English homophones because they are very interesting and very useful words
And now let's go back to our today's lesson
So a pair of homophones that I'm going to use it as an example is one - won
So step number one is to find all the homophones with the same pronunciation ONE -WON
we have done it, check
Then step number two is to look up the meanings of these homophones in the dictionary
So one is the number one which goes after zero and before two
As for won this is the past simple or past participle of the verb to win
step number two
check
Step number three
It's when you need to find as many example sentences with these English homophones as possible
and practice their pronunciation
Till you feel that you can pronounce these sentences without any kind of stumbling
So let's start
One
He had two slices and I had only one
She'll be one year old tomorrow
And WON
Which year was it that Italy won the world cup?
He won the first prize in the raffle
I have presented only two example sentences for each of the homophones in this pair
But guys, I think that you should go and find a little bit more and practice their pronunciation
Because it's really important. You need to feel that you can produce
You can pronounce these sentences really easily and effortlessly
Like naturally without any kind of difficulties, you know
and by the way
Also, the quantity of sentences that you should find to practice, with these homophones that you are going to work with
It also depends on
whether you know this homophone whether it is already in your
Passive memory or it is completely it is brand new for you
If it is brand new
If you haven't heard and you haven't seen this word before then you should find more example sentences and work with
more
phrases and
Devote to this word more time and then it works
And step number four the last one
But it is the most important one because here you need to make up your own examples with these
Homophones and practice them as much as possible and try to use these phrases
And these sentences in your conversation with the other people
because you know guys without this step you will just
Forget these words and all these efforts all these
All the times that you have devoted, you have spent for memorizing these words. It will be just in vain, you know
So sentences that I have made with these homophones, here they are
I usually eat one banana before dinner
My mom has one very beautiful flower with blossoms every couple of months
They have one daughter and two sons
And sentences with WON
Who won yesterday's championship?
My husband won the lottery
Last week I submitted my answers to one radio survey, and you know what?
They called me a couple of days ago and said that I won five tickets to a concert. Can you imagine that?
As you have seen in the last example, it was not a sentence by the way but a few sentences instead
so there I used uh both homophones because guys this is a great uh choice when you want to
when you want to memorize new vocabulary and you have a bunch of words, so it's a great idea to
Make up some kind of situation or to describe some kind of
events and try to use as many of those words as possible because in this way
while um
describing this situation you will include as many words and they will be like
Stuck to this situation and every time when you recall the situation in the future
all these words will come up, will show up and
They will be all the time in your active vocabulary. So this is a great
hack
for those who need to learn
words
Quickly and easily, bear that in mind that this is a great way to learn English words
And guys, that's it
It's as easy as that
Now you're ready to go and learn more English homophones. So
Go ahead and try, and I will see you in my other lessons. Take care. Bye
