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THE ARROW AND THE SONGI shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where, For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of a song? Long, long afterward, in an oak, I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. Henry W. Longfellow
ENGLISH SPELLING When the ENGLISH tongue we speak Why is break not rhymed with freak? Will you tell me why it's true We say sew but likewise few? And the maker of a verse Cannot cap his horse with worse. Beard sounds not the same as heard, Lord is different from word. Cow is cow, but low is low; Shoe is never rhymed with foe Think of hose and close and lose. And of goose - and yet of choose. Think of comb and tomb and bomb Doll and roll, and home and some; And, since pay is rhymed with say. Why not paid with said. I pray? We have blood and food and good; Mould is not pronounced like could. Wherefore done, but gone and lone? Is there any reason known? And in short, it seems to me Sounds and letters disagree. Activity 1. Which word doesn’t rhyme with the other three?
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Activity 2. Which word doesn’t rhyme with the other words?
1. blown grown stone sewn lone
2. over clover Dover drover lover 3. smile style while vile aisle veil 4. hard cart stared barred starred charred 5. could good hood stood would flood 6. tough dough rough puff gruff bluff 7. stud mud bud blood wood thud 8. speak shriek cheek break deep scene 9. pier brier dear deer here weir 10. love glove dove move above
Activity 3. The words on the left are all irregular verbs in the past. Date: 2015-12-18; view: 1125
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