Intermediate English Homophones – different words that sound the same!

hey everyone I'm Alex thanks for clicking and welcome to this

intermediate lesson on Homa phones so this is a level two of my homophone

series and if you watched my beginner video and you feel comfortable now with

the idea of Homa phones and you've mastered your and your and they're

they're there and it's an it's fantastic and now we're going to level up and go

to the intermediate stage so as a reminder Homa phones are words that

sound the same but are spelled differently and they have a different

meaning so today we are going to look at 10 more homophone x' or series of words

that have different spellings but have the same pronunciation and different

meanings number one this is a three-fer which means like three of them here so

we have Isle Isle Isle now I should put a star beside I apostrophe ll some

people do not pronounce it as Isle some people pronounce it as oh okay like I'll

call you later but a lot of people also pronounce it as Isle which is I will

okay and then this is Isle and Isle is a walkway now it is specifically a walkway

that is between a section or two sections of shelves or chairs when you

go to the movie heater you walk up the aisle okay it's a walkway a space

between you know when you have things on both sides when you go to the grocery

store you walk in different aisles where's the salt

it's an aisle three where's the cereal it's in Aisle five for example and aisle

this is just the short form for island okay so example I'll meet you

in Aisle three if you're talking or texting with your significant other your

wife your husband your boyfriend where are you I'm buying milk what are you

doing I'm buying this okay I'll meet you in aisle three

that's where the I don't know what's something that people like to eat that's

where the chocolate is people like chocolate right okay and another example

the isle of man is in the Irish Sea so the Isle of Man is a place which has

an awesome flag and it's located in the Irish Sea it's the flag with like three

legs and a circle it's pretty cool so next allowed and allowed so allowed a

ll o w e D just means you are permitted to do something you are allowed you have

permission to do something allowed this one might be new for some of you this

means to say something vocally now instead of just keeping it inside ok

vocally or with a loud voice so for example in this class if you're sitting

in university for example your professor might say you are allowed to speak your

thoughts aloud ok don't keep them inside vocalize them say them use them ok

and number 3 choose choose the first one you're probably familiar with it's just

a verb which means to select and choose this is the third-person version of qu

which you do when you eat food or gum right so this is chewing so I ridiculous

example for all of you she chews gum when trying to choose her clothes

it's a weird habit much like ok time to choose my clothes I'm going to choose

some gum and choose my clothes number 4 forward and forward so I think most of

you probably know forward the direction which means like in front of you go

straight go forward or if you've seen the movie Rocky Balboa there's an

excellent speech between rocky and his son where he says you have to keep

moving forward that's how winning is done right all right and forward is a

short introduction or a short intro in a published book this is also known as a

preface or in introduction and it's usually written by someone other than

the author so you'll see a lot of forwards written for classic books books

that are like 100 years old and a modern contemporary contemporary writer or

figure will write about the significance of the book before the actual book right

so hey who wrote the foreword in that edition of Frankenstein if your friend

is reading a specific edition of the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley a

classic you know he might wonder I really enjoyed the foreword reading the

introduction to that book he gave a lot of contextual details about the

historical importance of the novel who wrote the foreword to in that edition

all right so well what have we done here we had done one two three four guys what

number comes after four it's five you know it's five number five grown and

grown so grown the adjective which means mature like you are a grown adult a

grown man a grown woman okay or grown now this one is probably less familiar

to some of you this can be a verb or a noun so you can grown or you can hear a

grown now this is my own definition of grown it's a sound of disappointment

it's a sound you make when you go

like when you hear a really bad joke or if you you know are you see something

that's a little sad or ridiculous or you're sick and you go you're groaning

okay so don't groan you're a grown adult so don't groan can also mean like don't

like be a baby and complain my life is terrible

you're a grown adult okay next heel heel heel similar to the first

example this one a chi apostrophe ll some people pronounce this as hill

similar to you know a small mountain but a lot of people also pronounce it as

heel so he will he'll call you or he'll call you if you talk to a certain person

from a certain part of the world are not necessarily even a certain part of the

world is just personal preference I think so then you have heel h e al so a

doctor will heal you know whatever injuries you have so to make well or to

make better and this refers to an injury if you're hurt you can get healed or if

you play role-playing games like Oh Final Fantasy 7 this is red 13 you have

heal potions right or healing magic so you can heal your characters make them

better make them well + HP basically and h ee l he'll this is the back and bottom

part of a person's foot so this part here the very back of your foot the

bottom part back is your heel very famous you know cultural touchstone

for this word is the Achilles heel so if you have an Achilles heel it means you

have a weakness and this comes from a Greek myth where Achilles is heel you

know cause some misfortune so please yeah remember

Achilles heel morning and morning I know you know morning it's the first part of

the day it's probably one of the first 20 words you learn when you're studying

English and you're an intermediate student so we don't need to review it

but morning mo you are and ing now this refers to a period of grief sorrow or

sadness usually you are in mourning so you see the phrase here in mourning

after the death of a loved one or maybe a pet that you had for a very

long time so you can use the verb to mourn em oh you are N and you can mourn

the loss of a loved one mourn the loss of a pet or someone that you care about

a friend or family member and you can also be in mourning for something okay

so we have five six seven and what comes after seven boom eight you got it

eight poll poll so poll can be a noun which can be like a long cylindrical

thing like you think of a telephone pole or a fishing pole I think of like a long

stick basically so a pole can also be a noun or a verb tol L and basically this

is a sample of opinions about a topic or pull the verb can mean you know to

conduct a survey that collects a sample of opinions about a topic usually around

elections you hear a lot in the news about opinions polls where people give

their opinions about the candidates who are running for office okay so for

example this is a different example than talking about elections and politics we

need to poll people about the new telephone

on pole so if your local government has placed a telephone pole and maybe a

weird location that is blocking people or that is dangerous you might need to

pull the neighborhood saying do you support the location of this telephone

pole and maybe they do maybe they don't but you can pull people about the pole

it's hard thinking of examples guys help me right thank you for your patience

number nine wrapped and wrapped so wrapped can be a noun or verb for the

style of music performed by people like Eminem or Snoop Dogg or Kid Cudi I think

is like a more recent one and rap can be a noun or a verb if I have you know a

cut on my arm I can use a bandage to wrap around my arm a wrap it can also be

a delicious little sandwich that you buy at McDonald's or any other fast-food

restaurant or not even fast food restaurants but you can eat a rat a

chicken wrap a beef wrap etc so I like to rap while I rap so if you're wrapping

your arm and you like to talk about what you're doing you can rap like rap i'm

not going to rap so i don't know how to rap comparable edit number 10 roll and

roll ro ll can be a noun or a verb now this means to move along a surface by

turning over and over so you can like roll a tire from your car right you can

push it and it rolls okay and it can also be roll you can roll sorry this one

you can also like roll dice when you're playing games like any game really that

has dice or Dungeons and Dragons if you play that role rol II this is a noun and

this refers to a part in a play a movie or any type of performance so let's look

at the two examples here we have roll up the carpet please

alright so if you are changing the carpet in your floor in your floor well

yeah in your room or in your living room or something like that you know your

mother or someone in the house might ask you to like hey roll up the carpet we're

changing it so we need to get it out and roll it up please and finally Keanu

Reeves played the role of John wick and like the action movie John wick which is

excellent and highly recommended if you don't mind brutal violence and guns

which sometimes I don't but sometimes I do but in this movie it was excellent so

check it out John wick - is maybe out by the time

you're watching this video so that is it guys

ten homophone at the intermediate level so check out the beginner video if you

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respond to comments like I do to my videos as well and if you're wondering

you know Alex I've been listening to you for so many minutes talking about

homophone x' and yeah it's kind of cute you know rap rap poll poll why is this

important well it's important number one so that you know the spelling of these

words and you know how to use them in context and you know how to

understand what people are saying when they are using these words and you know

in a conversation so that you don't think they're saying rapped when they

really mean rap okay so if they say I love raps like you know I love raps I

hope to eat raps or you love raps you love to listen to rap music I don't know

so you have to be sure that you understand what people are saying that

you're spelling things correctly that you're understanding context so that's

why this stuff is important and if you want to go to

three the advanced-level it's coming so wait for it and if it is up by the time

you know this videos out just check it out and I hope you enjoy it till next

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