Wound vs Wound | Learn English Heteronyms | Vocabulary Listening + Pronunciation Check

Hello, everyone. My name is Fiona.

Today we're going to be looking at these two words.

They’re really going to help your English pronunciation and listening skills.

They look the same, but what's the difference? Keep watching and find out why.

Are you ready? Let's begin.

First, I'm going to say the sentence quickly. So listen really hard.

‘The nurse wound the bandage around the wound.’

Woo, I told you it was tricky. Let me say it again, but slower.

Are you ready?

‘The nurse wound the bandage around the wound.’

Okay, here's the sentence.

‘The nurse wound the bandage around the wound.’

What words go in these two blanks?

Well, the answer is,

‘The nurse wound the bandage around the wound.’

They look the same, but they sound different.

I know, I know. Let me explain why the two different words.

Okay, let's take a look at these two words.

‘wound’ and ‘wound’.

They spell the same way, but the pronunciation and the meaning is different.

It's a Heteronym. What's the Heteronym?

It’s where two words are spelled the same way,

but have a different pronunciation, and a different meaning.

Let's have a look at the meaning and pronunciation of our two words.

First, we have ‘wound’.

‘wound’ is a verb, it’s past tense of the verb ‘wind’.

And ‘wind’ means to turn or coil lots of times.

I have two sentences to show you this.

‘Yesterday,’. past tense, already happened. ‘I wound my watch.’

‘Yesterday, I wound my watch.’

And sentence number two.

‘The vine wound around the pole.’

The vine, a plant, wound around the pole.

Okay, pronunciation. Repeat after me.

‘wound’ ‘wound’

Let’s look at the word number two. ‘wound’.

‘wound’ is a noun. It means a cut or a scrape something that

is bleeding and it hurts.

I have two sentences to show you this.

‘The wound on my knee hurts.’

The cut or the scrape on my knee is bleeding.

It hurts.

‘The wounds on my knee hurts.’

And sentence number two.

‘Clean the wound before it gets infected.’

Clean the wound. Clean scrape, clean the cut before it gets infected.

before it gets dirty.

Okay, let's practice pronunciation.

Repeat after me.

‘wound’

‘wound’

Let's go back to the main sentence.

‘The nurse wound the bandage around the wound.’

The Nurse wound, she wrapped or coiled, the bandage around my wound. The cut or scrape.

‘The nurse wound the bandage around the wound.’

Okay, repeat after me.

We’re gonna go slow to start and then like a native speaker.

Are you ready?

‘The nurse wound the bandage around the wound.’

Okay.

‘The nurse wound the bandage around the wound.’

Well done.

Great job today, guys. You did really well and we got some awesome

listening and pronunciation practicing.

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