WAEC GCE 2025 English Language Paper 3 (Oral) Questions and Answers

WAEC GCE 2025 English Language Paper 3 (Oral) Questions and Answers

Below is a complete WAEC–style English Language Paper 3 (Oral) set, containing 60 Objective Questions based on:

• Oral English sounds
• Stress
• Emphatic stress
• Intonation
• Rhymes
• Consonant and vowel contrasts
• Phonetic discrimination

All questions follow WAEC GCE/SSCE format.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE PAPER 3 (ORAL) – 60 QUESTIONS

INSTRUCTION: Choose the option that has the vowel or consonant sound that is different from the others OR best answers the question.

WAEC GCE 2025 English Language Paper 3 (Oral) Questions and Answers

SECTION A: VOWEL SOUNDS (1–20)

1. Choose the word with a different vowel sound:
   A. Beat
   B. Seat
   C. Bit
   D. Leak
   Answer C

2. Choose the word with the same vowel sound as “book”:
   A. boot
   B. took
   C. cool
   D. mood
   Answer B

3. Choose the odd vowel sound:
   A. father
   B. car
   C. cat
   D. hard
   Answer C

4. Which word contains the same vowel sound as “pen”:
   A. pain
   B. hen
   C. lane
   D. cane
   Answer B

5. Choose the word with a different vowel sound:
   A. pool
   B. pull
   C. fool
   D. stool
   Answer B

6. Select the odd vowel sound:
   A. hat
   B. heart
   C. cat
   D. fat
   Answer B

7. Which word contains /u:/
   A. put
   B. root
   C. foot
   D. full
   Answer B

8. Choose the word whose vowel sound differs:
   A. but
   B. cut
   C. put
   D. shut
   Answer C

9. The vowel sound in “bird” is also in
   A. heard
   B. head
   C. hard
   D. beard
   Answer A

10. Choose the word with a different vowel sound:
    A. care
    B. fair
    C. fear
    D. share
    Answer C

11. The word that contains the same vowel sound as “seat”
    A. sit
    B. beat
    C. set
    D. fit
    Answer B

12. Identify the odd one out:
    A. cup
    B. hut
    C. put
    D. sun
    Answer C

13. Which has the same vowel sound as “site”
    A. seat
    B. sight
    C. sit
    D. cite
    Answer B

14. Choose the odd vowel sound:
    A. go
    B. hoe
    C. now
    D. so
    Answer C

15. Which word has the same sound as “food”:
    A. good
    B. wood
    C. mood
    D. book
    Answer C

16. Choose the word with a different vowel sound:
    A. foil
    B. soil
    C. boil
    D. toil
    Answer A

17. Select the word with the same vowel sound as “care”:
    A. beer
    B. bear
    C. bare
    D. bar
    Answer B

18. Identify the word with the odd vowel sound:
    A. girl
    B. pearl
    C. well
    D. heard
    Answer C

19. Choose the word that shares the same sound as “boot”:
    A. book
    B. loot
    C. foot
    D. cook
    Answer B

20. Choose the odd vowel sound:
    A. tea
    B. bee
    C. key
    D. they
    Answer D

WAEC GCE 2025 English Language Paper 3 (Oral) Questions and Answers

SECTION B: CONSONANT SOUNDS (21–40)

21. Choose the word with a different consonant sound:
    A. ship
    B. sheep
    C. chip
    D. she
    Answer C

22. Choose the word containing the /tʃ/ sound:
    A. shape
    B. cheap
    C. ship
    D. share
    Answer B

23. The consonant sound /θ/ appears in
    A. though
    B. think
    C. them
    D. this
    Answer B

24. Choose the odd consonant sound:
    A. pleasure
    B. measure
    C. pressure
    D. vision
    Answer C

25. Which word contains the /ŋ/ sound?
    A. long
    B. lung
    C. log
    D. lock
    Answer A

26. Choose the word with a different initial consonant sound:
    A. gin
    B. jam
    C. girl
    D. joy
    Answer C

27. The consonant sound in “phone” is the same as
    A. pin
    B. vine
    C. fan
    D. thin
    Answer C

28. The sound /ʃ/ is in
    A. chef
    B. check
    C. chop
    D. chalk
    Answer A

29. Which word contains /ð/?
    A. thought
    B. thick
    C. though
    D. thank
    Answer C

30. Choose the word with a different final consonant sound:
    A. back
    B. trek
    C. sack
    D. bag
    Answer D

31. Choose the word that begins with the same sound as “cat”:
    A. chain
    B. kite
    C. chair
    D. chin
    Answer B

32. Choose the odd consonant sound:
    A. laugh
    B. calf
    C. half
    D. safe
    Answer D

33. The sound in “judge” is present in
    A. badge
    B. huge
    C. hedge
    D. ledge
    Answer A

34. Identify the word containing /s/ not /z/:
    A. plays
    B. bags
    C. sits
    D. days
    Answer C

35. Choose the word with the sound /ʒ/:
    A. pleasure
    B. pressure
    C. treasure
    D. casualty
    Answer A

36. The consonant cluster /spl/ appears in
    A. splash
    B. splashy
    C. explain
    D. split
    Answer D

37. Choose the odd sound:
    A. knife
    B. know
    C. knee
    D. knit
    Answer A

38. Which word ends with /p/?
    A. cup
    B. cub
    C. curb
    D. cop
    Answer A

39. Choose the word that contains /kw/:
    A. choir
    B. quote
    C. key
    D. queue
    Answer B

40. The consonant sound in “judge” differs from that in
    A. jam
    B. joy
    C. large
    D. age
    Answer C

WAEC GCE 2025 English Language Paper 3 (Oral) Questions and Answers

SECTION C: RHYMES (41–50)

41. Choose the word that rhymes with “light”:
    A. late
    B. bite
    C. sit
    D. let
    Answer B

42. Choose the rhyme pair:
    A. pool – fall
    B. could – stood
    C. food – flood
    D. boot – but
    Answer B

43. The word that rhymes with “fair”:
    A. fear
    B. dear
    C. bear
    D. near
    Answer C

44. Which word rhymes with “coat”?
    A. bought
    B. boat
    C. cut
    D. court
    Answer B

45. Choose the rhyming word for “time”:
    A. tin
    B. tame
    C. dime
    D. team
    Answer C

46. The rhyming word for “stone”:
    A. soon
    B. tone
    C. tun
    D. ton
    Answer B

47. Choose the rhyme pair:
    A. late – date
    B. lake – lack
    C. beer – bear
    D. fit – feet
    Answer A

48. Rhymes with “speak”:
    A. peak
    B. thick
    C. sick
    D. seek
    Answer A

49. Rhymes with “tall”:
    A. tell
    B. toil
    C. fall
    D. tile
    Answer C

50. Choose the word that rhymes with “back”:
    A. bake
    B. break
    C. pack
    D. bark
    Answer C

WAEC GCE 2025 English Language Paper 3 (Oral) Questions and Answers

SECTION D: STRESS & EMPHATIC STRESS (51–60)

51. In which word is the stress on the first syllable?
    A. receive
    B. begin
    C. market
    D. reply
    Answer C

52. The stress in “photograph” falls on
    A. first syllable
    B. second syllable
    C. third syllable
    D. last syllable
    Answer A

53. The emphatic stress on “He BOUGHT the car” emphasizes that
    A. he rented it
    B. he bought it, not sold it
    C. he borrowed it
    D. he washed it
    Answer B

54. If the statement is “Mary passed the EXAM,” the contradictory emphatic response is
    A. Mary passed the test
    B. Mary passed the exam
    C. Mary did not pass the exam
    D. Mary passed all the exams
    Answer C

55. In “She arrived yesterday,” to contradict the time, the reply is
    A. She did not arrive yesterday
    B. She arrived late
    C. She arrived quickly
    D. She arrived again
    Answer A

56. Where is the stress placed in “environment”?
    A. enVIronment
    B. enviRONment
    C. environMENT
    D. ENvironment
    Answer A

57. In emphatic stress, the stressed word
    A. changes meaning
    B. shows contrast
    C. shows rhyme
    D. forms a question
    Answer B

58. The stressed syllable in “understand” is
    A. UN-derstand
    B. un-DER-stand
    C. un-der-STAND
    D. un-derstand
    Answer C

59. To contradict “He is VERY intelligent,” the reply is
    A. He is not very intelligent
    B. He is not tall
    C. He is intelligent
    D. He is very tall
    Answer A

60. The stress in “economic” is on the
    A. first syllable
    B. second syllable
    C. third syllable
    D. fourth syllable
    Answer C