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Have you ever tried to use limericks to entertain your students? I am a great fan of this kind of poetry. Children and teenagers just love it! They are funny, easy to learn by heart (if you want your students to do it) . Ss seem just to pick up words without any effort! I use limericks from time to time (there are dozens of websides which offer you a wide range of limericks). I try to choose the funniest... (of course funny for me does not always mean funny for my students... ) With older students I even tried to translate them into Polish but in a way that maintains rhymes and meaning. It can be a good ideas for a competition for inteligent and bright students - they can realize how hard it is to work as an interpreter or translator. Do you know any funny limericks that REALLY make you laugh? Do you use them sometimes?
By the way here is one of my favourites (unfortunatelly I do not know the name of the author). Still whoever was the author I seem to share his / her sense of humour! And the limerick goes like this:
There once
was an old man of Esser,
Whose knowledge grew lesser and lesser,
It at last grew so small
He knew nothing at all,
And now he �s a college professor.
There once was a kid named Darren Whose room was surprisingly barren He had no toys Like all normal boys But he did believe in sharing
PS: thanks for the reminder... I used to use lymericks and then, for some reason, stopped... But I remember how the kids loved it, because of the rhythm, and teenagers loved making them (even as riddles)...
It would perhaps be fun, to make us laugh a bit this Sunday, if we had a bit of a competition here at ESL if anyone is up to it!? Perhaps we could invent our own lyrics, funny or not, as riddles and challenge each other into guessing... What do you think? Here �s my attempt...
THERE IS A STRANGE LADY FROM YONKERS
USING MUSIC IS HOW SHE CONQUERS.
WHEN SHE PUTS ON A SHOW
HER FANS START TO GLOW,
THOUGH SHE LOOKS LIKE SHE �S SIMPLY GONE BONKERS..
(Lady GaGa)
PS: I �ve included the solution, because I can �t stay long, but I will check out the post to see how everyone did. I hope the post gives results, because we could use a lot of this in class, and have fun...
Anaisabel, your friend reminds me of a Hobbit - having first breakfast, second breakfast, etc... Kind of reminds me of myself now, too, having a pregnancy diet of two small breakfasts, a lunch, a snack, a dinner...
Ticas, thanks for joining in...
Any other people willing to write a limerick, perhaps even as a riddle???
) With older students I even tried to translate them into Polish but in a way that maintains rhymes and meaning. It can be a good ideas for a competition for inteligent and bright students - they can realize how hard it is to work as an interpreter or translator.
). Still whoever was the author I seem to share his / her sense of humour! And the limerick goes like this:
