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RHYMES FOR OLDER CHILDREN

The following verses are more appropriate for the older child as an aid to remembering those difficult dates and subjects:-

 

 

ROMAN NUMERALS

X stands for playmates TEN;
V for FIVE stout, stalwart men;
I for ONE, as I'm alive;
C for HUNDRED and D for FIVE*** (This is five hundred)
M for a THOUSAND soldiers true,
And L for FIFTY, I'll tell you.


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Important dates in History

William the Conqueror, ten sixty-six        (1066)
Played on the Saxons oft cruel tricks.

Columbus sailed the ocean blue,
In fourteen hundred and ninety-two        (1492)

The Spanish Armada met it's fate,
In fifteen hundred and eighty-eight.        (1588)

In sixteen hundred and sixty-six             (1666)
London burnt like rotten sticks.

 

 

Anyone who has had to learn English will know just how difficult it can be coming to terms with all the various pronunciations - words that are spelled the same can sound very, very different.

Sarah Nicholson has kindly provided some excellent links to sites featuring fun poems highlighting many of these idiosyncrasies.

http://www.etni.org.il/farside/funpoem.htm

 http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-poems-pronunciation-poem.htm 

 http://www.mipmip.org/tidbits/pronunciation.shtml 

And I found an even longer version here: http://www.spellingsociety.org/journals/j17/caos.php 

 

 

 

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