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