Homophones
Learning English Vocabulary
BBC
4.5 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Mail and male... Learn about words that sound the same but have different spellings.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.5 | Do you know someone who is starting to learn English? |
| 0:10.0 | We have a new easy video series just for them, the London Letter Challenge. |
| 0:17.1 | Three teams race around London to find eight letters, which will take them to the winning crowns. |
| 0:24.2 | Watch the series on our websites now, BBC learningenglish.com. |
| 0:32.4 | Six-minute vocabulary. |
| 0:35.1 | From BBC Learning English. |
| 0:38.3 | Hello and welcome to six minute vocabulary. Hello and welcome to six minute vocabulary. I'm Neil. |
| 0:42.6 | And I'm Sophie. Hi Neil. I've got a question for you. |
| 0:46.8 | Okay. |
| 0:48.0 | What's black and white and red all over? |
| 0:52.2 | What's black and white and red all over? |
| 0:58.0 | I don't know that, go on, tell me. |
| 1:00.7 | A newspaper. |
| 1:02.2 | Oh, I see. |
| 1:04.1 | So it wasn't the colour red, but red, as in the past form of read. |
| 1:09.9 | White paper, black writing and the red all over bit means people read it |
| 1:15.8 | very good sophie you should go into comedy i'm not too sure about that neal sorry for the bad joke |
| 1:22.3 | everyone but words that sound the same but have different meanings is actually our topic for today's show that's right homophones words that sound the same but have different meanings is actually our topic for today's show. |
| 1:28.8 | That's right. Homophones. Words that sound the same but have different spellings and different meanings. |
| 1:36.4 | Let's listen to Mark and Jane. Mark's just had an accident in the kitchen. |
| 1:41.9 | And here's a question for you to think about why you listen. |
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