2. What is this?
There once was a woman from China Who went for a cruise on a liner She slipped on the deck And twisted her neck And now she can see right behind her
A Limerick is a special type of funny poem. It is named after the county in Ireland.

3. How many lines does a Limerick have?
The once was a lady from Niger Who smiled as she rode on a tiger They returned from the ride With the lady inside And the smile on the face of the tiger
Five
Always five? Yes

4. Which word is the odd one out?
Meat miːt Feet fiːt Sheet ʃiːt Sheep ʃiːp
Elicit that the final sound is the most important

5. Feedback China Liner Niger Tiger Inside Ride Neck Deck Cool Rule
Through
New

6. Rhyming Tennis Form groups of between 3 and 8 people
Form two parallel lines
Scoring system is as follows:
(15-love), (30-love), (30-15), (30 all), (40-30) deuce etc.
Team 1 serves a word first and team 2 has 20 seconds to ‘return’ serve.
If team 2 is successful, the second student from team 1 has twenty second to find a rhyme and so on.

7. Rhyme Patterns
In pairs, identify the rhyming words and underline them. Read both limericks to each other and identify the rhyme pattern. AABBA Always AABBA? Yes

8. There once was a woman from China Who went for a cruise on a liner She slipped on the deck And twisted her neck And now she can see right behind her

9. Focus on Rhythm
= o = = o = = o = = o = = o

10. The once was a lady from Niger
Who smiled as she rode on a tiger
They returned from the ride
With the lady inside
And the smile on the face of the tiger

11. Practice
______________ Halloween ________ Quebec, _______ man _______ outside_______ deck, When ______ surprise ______ dropped_______ skies, ________vampire _______ made ______ neck.

12. What does the last line do?
There once was a woman from China
Who went for a cruise on a liner
She slipped on the deck
And twisted her neck
And now she can see right behind her
The once was a lady from Niger
Who smiled as she rode on a tiger
They returned from the ride
With the lady inside
And the smile on the face of the tiger

13. Production There once was a boy from Bangkok
A pretty young woman from Spain
A funny old man from Beijing
There once was a girl from Dubai
A happy young guy from Peru
There was an old teacher from France
There once was a student from Wales
A clever young guy from Japan

14. Production Bangkok: sock, lock, rock Spain: plane, rain, brain
Beijing: sing, something, wing
Dubai: fly, try, goodbye
Peru: through, new, do
France: dance, plants, ants
Wales: sales, tails, fails
Japan: can, plan, fan