A Garden of Poems Listening and speaking Warming-up What English poems have you read
Can you recite any
Eg: Roses are red Violets are blue Sugar is sweet And I love you Warming – up Poems PoemslyricsrhymesoundrhythmsyllablesstylelinesBrain storming Read the following limericks on page 25 and fill in the chart:StyleLinesRhyming patternSyllablesMain idea Limerick one A large lady from Corfu,Wished to travel to Peru
But whether buses or trainsOr boarding aeroplanes,There wasn’t a door she’d get through
A teacher from Singapore,Taught at middle school No
4It didn’t take students longTo see something was wrong:The man was as mad as a door
Limerick two StylefunnyFormLines5Rhyming pattern aabbaSyllables7 syllables for the first two lines, fewer for the next two and more for the last l