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RHYMES
Monday, December 2nd, 2002
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Why to use rhymes?

They are an alternative to the use of graded
readers.
They have been successfully used in Primary
schools.
They have a long tradition in English speaking
countries.

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Remember the AUDI advertising at the beginning
of the year 1996, in which a childs voice sang

Its raining, Its pouring,
The old mans snoring
He went to bed,
And bumped his head,
And couldnt get up in the morning.

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Or the film THE PIANO, where the protagonist
girl sings the rhyme "The Grand Old Duke of
York", while she goes up and down along the
hills

Oh, The Grand Old Duke of York
He had ten thousand men
he marched them up to the top of the hill
and he marched them down again.
And when they were up, they were up.
And when they were down, they were down.
And when they were half way up,
they were neither up nor down.

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Or remember also the famous filmLADYBIRD,
LADYBIRD, whose title does not seem to refer to
the contents unless you know the rhyme from which
it is taken. All English children use that rhyme
for the ladybirds to count their fingers
Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, your house is
on fire, your children all gone.
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We can find a lot of these short poems. For
instance, Agatha Christie based many of her
novels in them, such as "Ten Little Niggers",
"The Crooked House", "A Pocketful of Rye", "Three
Blind Mice", etc.
There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked
mile He found a crooked sixpence against a
crooked stile He brought a crooked cat which
caught a crooked mouse, And they all lived
together in a little crooked house.
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Humpty Dumpty, the egg that fell from the wall,
is well known by all of the English speakers. It
appears in the title of the film about Watergate
affair, called in Spain TODOS LOS HOMBRES DEL
PRESIDENTE, alluding to the impossibility of
mending an egg that has fallen from the wall.
Humpty-Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty-Dumpty had a
great fall. All the king's horses and all the
king's men couldn't put Humpty together again.
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Why to use rhymes?

They are short enough to be easily learnt by
heart, making easy to learn vocabulary and
grammatical structures.
They are ideal texts to learn good pronunciation
and intonation, because of their strong rhythm
and marked rhyme.

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Why to use rhymes?

They are original texts, not adapted ones, and
they keep the grace of the authentic.
They are useful to introduce pupils into the
culture of other countries through meaningful
texts.
They are useful to compare different cultures, to
know the points of contact, and to appreciate the
culture of the own mother tongue.

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LEVELS
We can use Rhymes in all levels from beginners to
last stages, if they are well chosen, since there
are a wide variety of topics rhymes deal
with. Nursery rhymes are intended obviously for
children, but we can found Limericks, Riddles,
and Valentines not necessarily for
children Limericks are usually welcome by
students in higher levels since they are most of
times humorous and funny. These students can even
be encouraged to write their own Limericks and
Valentines.
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TIME

Rhymes can be used at any moment in the teaching
process, since they can give rise to a great
number of different activities on
Pronuciation
Vocabulary
Grammar structures

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MATERIALS

Texts
Blackboard
Tapes
Videos

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METHODOLOGY - I
There are a lot of ways of using rhymes in the
English classroom. We should set the limit in
teachers imagination and the features of the
group of pupils he turns towards. For instance,
we can write on the blackboard very short rhymes
and then take away words changing them little by
little into drawings or dashes until pupils learn
them by heart. If rhymes are longer we can do a
range of reading exercises. Pupils can try to
write rhymes after a certain time, following a
pattern, or changing some elements.
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METHODOLOGY - II
Pupils study some aspects of a foreign country
folklore and compare them with folklore of their
own country, and correspondencies and diffencies
between both. Pupils acquire spare attitudes to
differencies. The grasp of teachers is crucial to
determine the success or the failure of the
activity. Before starting the course, teachers
should have prepare the careful selection of
rhymes and exercices to deal with. Pupils should
know the whole se t of rhymes in advance. At a
certain level, it is advisable to ask pupils for
doing a writen work.
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NURSERY RHYMES - I
Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, richman,
poorman, beggarman, thief.
Thirty days has September, April, June and
November All the rest have thirty-one Excepting
February alone, Which has but twenty-eight days
clear And twenty-nine in each leap-year. (13TH
Century)
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NURSERY RHYMES - II
Solomon Grundy, Born on Monday, Christened on
Tuesday, Married on Wednesday, Sick on
Thursday, Worse on Friday, Died on
Saturday, Buried on Sunday. And that was the
end Of Solomon Grundy.
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NURSERY RHYMES - III

THE TRAGICAL DEATH OF A, APPLE-PIE, WHO WAS CUT
IN PIECES AND EATEN BY TWENTY-FIVE GENTLEMEN WITH
WHOM ALL LITTLE PEOPLE OUGHT TO BE VERY WELL
ACQUAINTED.
A was an apple-pie,
B bit it
C cut it
D dealt it
E ate it
F fought for it
G got it
H had it
I inked it
J joined it
K kept it
L longed for it

M mourned for it
N nodded at it
O opened it
P peeped in it
Q quartered it
R ran for it
S stole it
T took it
U upset it
V viewed it
W wanted it
X Y Z and ampersand
All wished for a piece in the hand.
(Dated in 1671)

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NURSERY RHYMES - IV

Alphabet
A for apple
B for bear
C for cat
D for dog
...

Comic alphabet
A for horses (hay for horses)
H for retirement (age
for retirement)
T for two (tea for two)
P for relief (pee for
relief)
etc.

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NURSERY RHYMES - V
One, two, three, four, five, Once I caught a fish
alive Six, seven, eight, nine, ten, Then I let it
go again. Why did you let it go? Because it bit
my finger so. Which finger did it bite? This
little finger on the right.
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NURSERY RHYMES - VI
One, two, buckle my shoe Three, four, knock at
the door Five, six, pick up sticks Seven, eight,
lay them straight, Nine, ten, a good fat
hen Eleven, twelve, dig and delve Thirteen,
fourteen, maids are courting Fifteen, sixteen,
maids in the kitchen Seventeen, eighteen, maids
are waiting Nineteen, twenty, my plate's empty.
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NURSERY RHYMES - VII

Oh, no pretty maid, I cannot marry you
For I have no shoes to put on.
Then away she went
To her grandfather's chest
And brought him a pair of the very very best,
And the soldier put them on.
Oh, soldier, soldier, will you marry me,
With your musket, fife, and drum?
Oh, no pretty maid, I cannot marry you
For I have no hat to put on.
Then away she went
To her grandfather's chest
And brought him one of the very very best,
And the soldier put them on.
Oh, soldier, soldier, will you marry me,
With your musket, fife, and drum?
Oh, no pretty maid, I cannot marry you
For I have a wife at home.

Oh, soldier, soldier, will you marry me,
With your musket, fife, and drum?
Oh, no pretty maid, I cannot marry you
For I have no coat to put on.
Then away she went
To her grandfather's chest
And brought him one of the very very best,
And the soldier put it on.
Oh, soldier, soldier, will you marry me,
With your musket, fife, and drum?
Oh, no pretty maid, I cannot marry you
For I have no socks to put on.
Then away she went
To her grandfather's chest
And brought him a pair of the very very best,
And the soldier put them on.
Oh, soldier, soldier, will you marry me,
With your musket, fife, and drum?

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NURSERY RHYMES - VIII
This is the house that Jack built. This is the
malt that lay in the house that Jack built This
is the rat that ate the malt... This is the cat
that killed the rat... This is the dog that
worried the cat... This is the cow with the
crumpled horn that tossed the dog... This is the
maiden all forlorn, that milked the cow... This
is the man all tattered and torn that kissed the
lady... This the cock, that crowed in the
morn, That woke the priest all shaven and
shorn, That married the man all tattered and
torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That
milked the cow with the twisted horn That tossed
the dog That chased the cat That killed the
rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that
Jack built.
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LIMERICKS - I

There was a young man from Dealing
When he read on the door
When he read on the door
"Don't spit on the floor"
He got up and spat on the ceiling.
There was a young man from Devizes
Whose ears were of different sizes.
One was so small
It was no good at all.
But the other won several prizes.
There once was a lady named Cager,
Who as the result of a wager,
Consented to fart
The entire oboe part
Of Mozart's quartet in F-major.

There was an Old Person whose habits
Induced him to feed upon rabbits
When he'd eaten eighteen
He turned perfectly green
Upon which he relinquished those habits.
A tutor who taught on the flute
Tried to teach two tooters to toot,
Said the two to the tutor,
"Is it harder to toot, or
to tutor two tooters to toot?
An artistic male cat called Greebo,
To an evening class he decided to go.
The teacher said, "That's not right
Your page is all white!"
Greebo said, "It is a polar bear in the snow."

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LIMERICKS - II

No zebras did board Noah's ark
Only horses, two white, and two dark
But for forty black nights
There were no bedroom lights
Which caused zebras galore to disbark!

There are several Great Lies that we know.
One is "I'll love you tomorrow."
Here's another false word
That we've recently heard,
"With less money your research will grow!

There once was an old man from Esser, Who's
knowledge grew lesser and lesser. It at last grew
so small, He knew nothing at all, And now he's a
college professor.
What is a limerick, mother? Its a form of verse,
said brother In which lines one and two Rhyme
with five when its through And three and four
rhyme with each other.
Why not create a past life or two? There is
nothing your mind cannot do Dream up some
dreams, Go to any extremes, Climb a mountain peak
near Kathmandu.
For a student whose name is Kathleen, With a mind
that's not overly keen, Graduation is sure, As
she's hardly demure And has often been seen with
the Dean.
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LIMERICKS - III

Her heart, I would love, that's a fact,
And her offer has much to attract!
I'd spend the whole day
'Tween her legs and just play.
And once there, I may never come back.
A flea and a fly in a flue
Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
Said the fly, let us flee!
Let us fly! said the flea.
So they flew through a flaw in the flue.
(Ogden Nash)
There was an Italian named Marc,
Who pissed one night in the park.
But the cops caught the peasant
His dong was fluorescent,
And glowed like a torch in the dark

The French are a race among races
They screw in the funniest places
Any orifice handy
Is considered quite dandy,
And that goes for the one in their faces.
There was a young man named Ned,
Who had eyes in the back of his head.
When asked where he was going,
Ive no way of knowing,
But I know where Ive been to, he said.
Save us all from restraint of expression,
Dark clouds raining down mind suppression
The Huns have been loosed,
Evil gods rule the roost,
It's a time with the world in regression.

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RIDDLES

What runs about all day and lies under the bed at
night?
What is black and white and /red/ all over?
What grows bigger the more you take from it?
What has one voice, and walks on four legs in the
morning, two at noon and three in the evening?"
The man who made it did not want it.
The man who bought it did not use it.
The man who used it did not know it.
What kind of can never needs a can-opener?
Here on Earth its always true, that a day
follows a day.
But there is a place where yesterday always
follows today!
I am always hungry.
I must always be fed,
The finger I lick
Will soon turn red.