Poem: solution

POEM

On the Grasshopper and Cricket

The poetry of earth is never dead

When all the birds are faint with the hot sun

And hide on cooling trees, a voice will  run

From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead.

That is the Grashopper’s - he takes the lead

In Summer luxury,- he has never done

With his delights; for when tired out with fun,

He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.

John Keats

WRITE THE SPELLING [ei]-CORRECTION

1)    tray, came, day, foreign, snail, wait, break, fame, date, gait
2) same, steak, rain, may, great, jail, neighbor, nail, danger, way

Poem

On the Grasshopper and Cricket

John Keats

Write the spelling of the words in brackets

WRITE THE SPELLING [ei] DIPHTHONG

Check on map #12

SELF EVALUATION

How many did you get right out of twenty?

AUDIO! : Clare at the funfair.

Clare at the funfair

Her name's Clare.

She's nice.

She has blue eyes

and fair

hair.

We met at the Funfair.

She was buying an ice;

her sister was eating a pear.

We drove in the bumper cars.

I paid the fares.

Both said it wasn't fair;

that they wanted to share,

and the turn was now theirs.

So we went twice.

We played darts,

then we looked at the sky,

but we didn't see the stars

on account of the lights.

There were

funny mice

skating on the ice

and also a bear

selling fares

in underwear.

-Come on! buy the fares!

 There's no time to spare!F

-Look! a witch riding bare

 on a mare!

-Where?

-Over

 there,

 in the square.

We did stare

but she didn't care.

She took off her shoes,

her only pair,

and walked barefoot

The grass was smooth

but she wasn't aware

there

were

thieves

at the fair.

Along came the Mayor

to the funfair,

although he was fair

nobody cared

when he stood

at the top of the stair.

There was

fun and glare

at the Funfair;

by the end of the night

there was only a layer

of rubbish in the square,

but nobody there.

-That's a nice pair,

 of shoes, mate. 

Put  it there!

CLARE AT THE FUNFAIR - Solution!

Her name's Clare.

She's nice.

She has blue eyes

and fair

hair.

We met at the Funfair.

She was buying an ice;

her sister was eating a pear.

We drove in the bumper cars.

I paid the fares.

Both said it wasn't fair;

that they wanted to share,

and the turn was now theirs.

So we went twice.

We played darts,

then we looked at the sky,

but we didn't see the stars

on account of the lights.

There

were

funny mice

skating on the ice

and also a bear

selling fares

in underwear.

-Come on! buy the fares!

 There's no time to spare!F

-Look! a witch riding bare

 on a mare!

-Where?

-Over

 there,

 in the square.

We did stare

but she didn't care.

  

She took off her shoes,

her only pair,

and walked barefoot

The grass was smooth

but she wasn't aware

there

were

thieves

at the fair.

Along came the Mayor

to the funfair,

although he was fair

nobody cared

when he stood

at the top of the stair.

There

was

fun and glare

at the Funfair;

by the end of the night

there was only a layer

of rubbish in the square,

but nobody there.

-That's a nice pair,

 of shoes, mate. 

Put  it there! F

Diphthong [ea] (cont.)

Joke!

She has long ear (hair).

Diphthong [ea]

Write the spelling of the words in phonetics:

Featured Song!

DIPHTHONG 

IF YOU ARE BUT A DREAM by Frank Sinatra

Anecdote

LINGUISTIC ANECDOTE

Carmen, a Spanish student, said to her English landlady:

-Mrs Green, my bottom has just blown off. Please, can you give me a needle to sow it?

Mrs.Green looked at her in amazement.

-Here you are the needle, dear, but it is hard to repair.

     These button and bottom are indeed naughty troublesome words and you should be careful with them:

One  of my pupils said once:

The number of  anecdotes with these words is endless, they are responsible for many misunderstandings and much embarrassment, but  don’t panic I am not going to tell you all, just one more.

On another occasion I asked one of my pupils just for the sake of speaking English.

There was general laughter. I also laughed.

Obviously he meant buttonhole.

I expect you are well aware of the difference by now.

Nature

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CONFUSING SPELLING

EXERCISE

Write the spelling of the words in brackets

MISLEADING SPELLING

The pronunciation of English vocalic graphemes is not always the same. One wrongly assumes they are consistent as in other languages, but they are not.

The relationship between spelling and sound is unpredictable; therefore  the pronunciation is chaotic, erratic even whimsical. It is part of the peculiar

English Muddle.

Aware of the problem,  and given that neither the spelling nor the ear can be trusted

we  wrote the following material.

1)           Sound&Spelling related Mind Maps:

            that relate a particular sound with the different graphemes.

2)           Jolly Stories for Learrning:

             they associate words with the same sound but different spelling.

3)           Audio:  

the stories above recorded by English actors

    

FREQUENT ERRORS:

   

1)   To pronounce wrongly a letter as a diphtong or viceversa

2)   Overgeneralizations  

NOTE

The a diphthongs in Nation

but it does not in its derived words.

Likewise, the stress changes position in derived words. 

Bear in mind that one must constantly particularize in English.

This linguistic trait creates patterns in the mind that transfer to everyday life.

I daresay that the English language:

1)     creates productive patterns of behavior against overgeneralizations

2)     develops alertness to minute signals that make the difference.

NEW Mind Map!

The [ei] sound is in the center. Different branches relating spellings & sounds start from there. The Forbidden Direction warns that it does not apply to these words. Besides relating sound and spelling, it is also an excellent way to learn new vocabulary. The new vocabulary that you gain should be included in the corresponding branch.

More Mind Maps HERE!