sick vs. seek

angry or hungry

a custom or a costume?

Ship or sheep, even though it's just a matter of the length of the vowel, it makes all the difference

plane, plan or plain?

lawyer, liar or layer - very confusing

way vs. weigh

A tip for elementary and pre-intermediate students: Mind your spelling as well as the way you read these two words, because they ARE very different despite looking so similar! GREAT /ɡreɪt/ GREET /ɡriːt/  

Why these two words, you might ask yourselves? There's no obvious connection - they mean different things, they are spelt differently, they are pronounced differently. And yet, if you have a few years' teaching experience, you probably know that students get confused about these two words very often - and it's not just the case ...čitaj dalje

Do you know? Why is the Dead Sea (in the example in the picture) called 'DEAD'?