 At the end of this session we will have written a limerick.

 Have you heard anything else about limericks? Limericks named after Irish town (with a pub in which limericks were told!) Because silly and memorable, repeated by beggars and working classes in pubs Even Shakespeare wrote them- Othello and King Lear

 Silly-but doesn’t always have to be  5 lines  Lines 1, 2 and 5: 10 syllables  Lines 3 and 4: 5 -7 syllables  Lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme

There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, 'It is just as I feared! Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!

 To get you started, write your first limerick simply by fitting syllables(beats) into the brackets. Use a bracket for each syllable –   tree, Who was horribly bored by a Bee; When they said, 'Does it buzz?' He replied, 'Yes, it does!' 'It's a regular brute of a Bee!'   There was an Old Man in a { }  Who { } { } { } { } { } { } { } { }  When { they } { said } { does } it } buzz ? }  { He } { re } { plied } { } { } { }  { Its } { a } { reg } { } { } { } { } { }{ }

 1. How many lines are there? ______  2. How many beats are there in each line? Line A: _____ beats Line B: _____ beats Line C: _____ beats  Line D: _____ beats Line E: _____ beats  3. Which lines rhyme with which? Lines ____, ____ and ____ rhyme. Lines ____ and ____ rhyme.  4. What subjects do limericks usually seem to be about?

 In a castle that had a deep moat  Lived a chicken a duck and a goat.  They wanted to go out  And wander about  But they desperately needed a boat.   There once was a bear at the zoo  Who always had something to do  When it bored him, you know,  to go to and fro,  he reversed it and went fro and to.

 Rhyme Pattern or Scheme  The rhyme scheme or rhyme pattern is AABBA.rhyme  A mosquito was heard to complain, 'A chemist has poisoned my brain!’ The cause of his sorrow was paradichloro- triphenyldichloroethane.

Limericks Limericks consist of five lines. Lines 1, 2, and 5 of Limericks have 7-10 syllables and rhyme with one another. Lines 3 and 4 of Limericks have 5-7 syllables and also rhyme with each other.

WHEN I GO FOR A WALK IN THE SUN, I CAN ASSURE YOU IT'S NOT ALWAYS FUN. AS THE FASTER I MOVE, IT IS EASY TO PROVE THAT PERSPIRATION,LIKE RIVERS,CAN RUN.

 1)  2)  3)  4)  5) 7 – 10 syllables 5 – 7 syllables 7 – 10 syllables

The school trip was a special occasion But we never reached our destination  Sometimes Google can help you find a rhyming word : write in search line “words that rhyme with destination”

 For example: words that rhyme with poverty  property  properly  fatherly  somberly  novelty  robbery, slobbery, snobbery  doddery, tottery, lottery  foppery  oddity, commodity

 A film actor dining in Kew  Found a very large bug in his _____.  Said the waiter, "Don't shout  And wave it ______,  Or the rest will be wanting one ___."   There once was a boy named Joe  Who dropped a big brick on his ___  He asked, with a frown,  "Will the swelling go _____?"  And the doctor said, "Yes. I think___."  List of words: down, so, stew, about, toe, too. 

 To scare off the critter  Then a happy thought hit her  She sat up in bed and just meowed  Who was frightened and screamed  very loud  A mouse in her room woke Miss  Doud   he awoke with a fright,  Who dreamed of eating his shoe,  and found that his dream had come  true!  in the middle of the night,  There one was a man from Peru, 

 ‘Dis poetry is not Party Political,  Not designed fe dose who are critical.’  Often used as a technique to say challenging or radical things or to emphasise that they are not part of the ‘wealthy world we know’.

 Let’s try writing a limerick!

 Let’s share some of our limericks!

“Poetry: the best words in the best order.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Poet) ( ) To what extent do you find this statement to be true/false?

 I’ve used most of the skills learnt.  I’ve tried to use some of the skills learnt.  I’m not using the skills learnt as well as I could be.