One of the most difficult things for a French speaker to do correctly in English is to decide if the H needs to be heard or not. Here are words that will help you practice this. PAGE 2.
haul/all
• I need to haul this garbage to the dump
• All my friends like my new haircut
haunt/aunt ***
• Ghosts haunt this house
• My aunt thinks her house is haunted
he/E
• He had a great time!
• She had a hard time saying the letter E
head/Ed
• She’s at the head of her class
• Ed needs to take special Ed classes
heady/Eddie
• She has heady opinions
• Eddie is a great guy!
heal/heel/he’ll/eel
• Doctors can heal this sort of ailment
• I can teach a dog how to heel
• He’ll forget about this misadventure quickly
• The electric eel is an interesting animal
hear/ear/here
• I hear with my ears
• Here you are!
hearing/earring
• My hearing is getting worse with time
• She makes beautiful earnings
hearth/earth **
• We like to sit near the hearth
• The earth is glorious
hearts/arts
• The children have big hearts
• The arts are an important part of a good education
heat/eat
• This heat is making me uncomfortable
• I am not popular because I like to eat garlic and beans
hedge/edge
• Many birds live in this hedge
• They like to live on the edge
helm/elm
• The captain is at the helm
• Elm trees are beautiful
herb *
• There are medicinal herbs in nature
he’s/ease
• He’s speaking with ease
hew/hue/Hugh/ewe
• To hew a tree (cut down)
• I love this hue of purple
• Hugh Grant is a good-looking man
• A ewe is a girl sheep
* Silent H (although Brits do pronounce the H in herb)
** The words have different vowel sounds
*** The words might have different vowel sounds, according to the accent
