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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 HistoryWilliam 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.
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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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