Climbing Kate

Climbing Kate is a 10 year old girl who never sees limitations, only possibilities. For her, challenges are opportunities to explore something new. As a baby, instead of crawling, Climbing Kate was climbing - everywhere. By the time she was two she had already climbed her first tree and never looked back. To date, Climbing Kate has climbed up to the sky and continues to snub her nose at obstacles as she focuses on her next goal. For Kate, the world is a giant playground offering her infinite potential to discover and explore.

Смешное стихотворение про... моль)))

Molly the moth

I left my new coat
In the hall
Right next to
A great big mothball
When I returned
To collect my coat
Molly the moth
Had left me a note
“I’ve eaten the coat”
“You left in the hall”
“It was truly delicious”
“Especially, that great big mothball”
(by Benny Bellamacina)

Нашла я это вот в этом блоге.
Блог называется - Piddly poems, children's ryhming books and songs.

Тонкий английский юмор

Это прекрасное стихотворения для старшеклассников. Я обычно использую его на Хэлоуин. Юмор очень тонкий. Типично английский. И атмосфера типично английская. И концовка.


Colonel Fazackerley Butterworth-Toast
by Charles Causley

Colonel Fazackerley Butterworth-Toast
Bought an old castle complete with a ghost,
But someone or other forgot to declare
To Colonel Fazak that the spectre was there.

On the very first evening, while waiting to dine,
The Colonel was taking a fine sherry wine,
When the ghost, with a furious flash and a flare,
Shot out of the chimney and shivered, 'Beware!'

Colonel Fazackerley put down his glass
And said, 'My dear fellow, that's really first class!
I just can't conceive how you do it at all.
I imagine you're going to a Fancy Dress Ball?'

At this, the dread ghost made a withering cry.
Said the Colonel (his monocle firm in his eye),
'Now just how you do it, I wish I could think.
Do sit down and tell me, and please have a drink.'

The ghost in his phosphorous cloak gave a roar
And floated about between ceiling and floor.
He walked through a wall and returned through a pane
And backed up the chimney and came down again.

Said the Colonel, 'With laughter I'm feeling quite weak!'
(As trickles of merriment ran down his cheek).
'My house-warming party I hope you won't spurn.
You MUST say you'll come and you'll give us a turn!'

At this, the poor spectre - quite out of his wits -
Proceeded to shake himself almost to bits.
He rattled his chains and he clattered his bones
And he filled the whole castle with mumbles and moans.

But Colonel Fazackerley, just as before,
Was simply delighted and called out, 'Encore!'
At which the ghost vanished, his efforts in vain,
And never was seen at the castle again.

'Oh dear, what a pity!' said Colonel Fazak.
'I don't know his name, so I can't call him back.'
And then with a smile that was hard to define,
Colonel Fazackerley went in to dine.

Я обычно читаю это стихотворение, а потом раздаю текст с пробелами.
В прошлый раз Старалась оставлять слова, которые рифмуются -
печатала "declare", а в следующей строчке пропускала "there".
Нормально вписали - почти все слова.
Текст стихотворения я взяла здесь.

А как Вы относитесь к английскому юмору?

Песня про инопланетянина или одиночество?

С пятиклассниками читали текстики про инопланетян (что-то вроде домашнего чтения). Песню моя коллега предложила неожиданную. Очень заводную. Дети были в восторге. Они, конечно, поняли, что парень не инопланетянин, хоть и синий. Они прекрасно поняли, что он в плохом настроении, ему одиноко.



А вот отдельно текст -

Blue (Da Ba Dee)

Yo listen up
Here’s the story about a little guy that lives in a blue world
And all day and all night and everything he sees is just blue like him
Inside and outside
Blue his house with a blue little window and a blue corvette
And everything is blue for him and his-self
And everybody around coz he has got nobody to listen.

Im blue da ba dee da ba di
da ba dee da ba di
da ba dee da ba di
da ba dee Da ba di
da ba dee da ba di
(repeat once)

I have a blue house with a blue window
Blue is the color I thought that I'd wear
Blue are the streets and all the trees are too
I have a girlfriend and she is so blue
Blue are the people here that walk around
Blue like my corvette its standing outside
Blue are the words I say and what I think
Blue are the feelings that live inside me.

Im blue da ba dee da ba di
da ba dee da ba di
da d ba dee da ba di
da ba dee Da ba di
da ba dee da ba di
(repeat twice)

Inside and outside
Blue his house with the blue little window and a blue corvette
And everything is blue for him and his-self
And everybody around coz he has got nobody to listen.

Im blue da ba dee da ba di
da ba dee da ba di
da ba dee da ba di
da ba dee da ba di
da ba dee da ba di
(repeat once)

А вот идиомы. Тоже синие)))



Урок 21


A bolt from the blue.
(Гром средь ясного неба.)

Once in a blue moon.
(В кои-то веки.)

Until you are blue in the face.
(До посинения.)


Hello, I’m a very interesting and intelligent man.
And today, the colour blue and I are getting together to teach you some English idioms. I bet you’ve never been taught by the colour blue before.
Ah, such a beautiful warm day.
Urgh!
I didn’t expect this terrible weather.
In fact, it’s come as a bolt…argh… from the blue!
In… English… if something… comes as… a complete surprise… we… can say it’s… a… bolt… from… the… blue. Ahhhhh!
A bolt from the blue.
And now… an astronomy lesson.
The universe is…big.
And things happen very… slowly.
Ah, the moon. A new moon is created… not very often.
In fact, it happens once in a blue moon.
In English, if things happen extremely rarely, we can say they happen ‘once in a blue moon’. Once in a blue moon.
Like my students. They almost NEVER do their homework. In fact, they do it once in a blue moon. But they don’t really listen to me.
I say to them ‘Do your homework.’ I do, ‘Do your homework’. That’s what I tell them. ‘Do your homework.’ That’s what I say. ‘Do your homework.’
That’s right. I say it until I’m blue in the face.
In English, if we say something until we are blue in the face, we waste time and effort because we won’t get any results.
Until you are blue in the face.
Oh please do your homework.

Урок BBC я взяла здесь.

Мои любимые смешные стихи - I

Веселые стихотворения всегда вспречаются учениками на ура)))

1) Непредсказуемое.

Декламирую его 1 апреля или 14 февраля. Предупреждаю, что суть - в самом конце.

A Joke

They walked in the lane together,
The sky was covered with stars,
They reached the gate in silence,
He lifted down the bars.
She neither smiled nor thanked him
Because she new not how;
For he was just a farmer's boy
And she - the farmer's cow.

2) Тонкий английский юмор - это игра слов, прежде всего. А еще надо знать много слов. Стихи очень помогают расширять словарный запас. Вот стихотворение с интересными словами и типичным английским юмором.

Ations
by Shel Silverstein

If we meet and I say, "Hi,"
That's a salutation.
If you ask me how I feel,
That's consideration.
If we stop and talk awhile,
That's a conversation.
If we understand each other,
That's communication.
If we argue, scream and fight,
That's an altercation.
If later we apologize,
That's reconciliation.
If we help each other home,
That's cooperation.
And all these ations added up
Make civilization.

(And if I say this is a wonderful poem,
Is that exaggeration?)

3)Лимерики
Википедия рассказывает про них.
Добавлю, что 8-9 класс -идеальный возраст для написания лимерика по-английски. Нужны, конечно, творческие ученики. Не всегда их много в одной группе...
Лимерики моих учеников –

1) Алборишвили Антон

There was a young girl from the city
Who was clever and pretty.
She loved a boy
Who loved more his toys
There was the sad girl from the city…

2) Дудкевич Стефания

Once there was a man from the West
And he lived on a tree in the nest.
He liked singing and cawing,
To the South he was going
And he thought that his voice was the best.

Тогда это были восьмиклассники, если мне память не изменяет.