Thursday, April 14, 2011

"Work with nursery rhymes"

When going through nursery rhymes, we found out interesting rhyming exercises for ESL students. Besides a large variety of nursery rhymes, we also noticed that this website includes a rather interesting  explanation about the lyrics, history and origins of each nursery rhyme, ilustrated with symbols. Among them we have decided to include this one as an example:

The Owl and the Pussycat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat,
They took some honey, and plenty of money,
Wrapped up in a five pound note.The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,
"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,What a beautiful Pussy you *, you *, you are,What a beautiful Pussy you are."
Pussy said to the Owl "You elegant fowl,How charmingly sweet you sing.
O let us be married, too long we have tarried;But what shall we do for a ring
 They sailed away, for a year and a  day,
             To the land where the Bong-tree grows,
             And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood            With a ring at the end of his *, his *, his nose,
            With a ring at the end of his nose.            "Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling your ring?"
             Said the Piggy, "I will"
            So they took it away, and were married next day            By the Turkey who lives on the _hill.            They dined on mince, and slices of quince,            Which they ate with a runcible spoon.
            And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand.           They danced by the light of the *, the *, the moon,            They danced by the light of the moon.

1 comment:

  1. Not a lot of info on this issue, and the rhyme you pasted still has the missing spaces for the guessing game.

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