A highly controlled poetry format. Lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme
and Lines 3 and 4 rhyme.
Warm-up to teaching Limericks:
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Students work in pairs or a small group.
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Each group receives a limerick that has been cut into
strips.
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They then put the strips of paper into what they think
might be the correct order.
Across the top of a blank sheet of paper, each student writes 5-6 places
around the Lough. Or the words - ocean,
sea, or Lough.
Choose the 2 places that are easiest to rhyme. Students can help each other
"brainstorm" rhyming words that they then write in columns underneath
the place names. This can be done using only the last syllable of the name.
Example:
Whitehead: lead, said, read, fed, bed, dead, Ed, Ted, Ned, Wed, Zed
Using one or both of the templates, students write limericks by filling in
the blanks with their own rhyming words. Use past tense.
Example: Template A
There once was a man from Whitehead.
All his life he hoped to be Wed.
So he put on a suit,
but she gave him the boot.
That sad lonely man from Whitehead.
Template - A:
There once was a ______________ from __________________.
All the while s/he hoped _______________________________.
So s/he _______________________________.
And _________________________________.
That ___________________ from ___________________.
Template - B:
I once met a _________________ from ___________________.
Every day s/he _______________________________________.
But whenever s/he ______________________.
The _________________________________.
That strange ___________________ from ___________________.
Example: Template B
I once met a mermaid from the Lough.
Every day she would sit on a rock.
But whenever she sang
The waves would bang
That strange beautiful mermaid from the Lough.