CAN YOU SOLVE THESE CUNNING RIDDLES?Test them out on family and friends at home and see how they get on.

2.

WHAT GETS WETTER AS IT DRIES?

4.

WHAT BELONGS TO YOU, BUT IS USED MORE BY OTHER

S?

3.

WHAT COMES DOWN, BUT N

EVER GOES UP?

5.

IF I DRINK, I DIE. IF I EAT, I AM

FINE. WHAT AM I?

6.

EVERYONE HAS IT AND N

O O

NE CAN LOSE IT. W

HAT IS

IT?

This Week’s Topic Is...

COMEDY1.

WHAT HAS A FACE AND TWO

HANDS, BUT NO ARMS OR

LEG

S?

1WE E K

Comedy is a genre in which the main importance is on humour. The aim of a comedy book is to prompt laughter from the reader through entertaining

stories and characters. You will often find the characteristics of characters in these types of stories are exaggerated for humorous effect. Although some funny books

may take on some serious material, most have a happy ending.

MAIN ACTIVITYA limerick is a light hearted funny poem with five lines. Limericks were made famous by Edward Lear, a famous author who wrote an entire book of silly

limericks called ‘A Book of Nonsense’ in 1846. Limericks always have the rhyming scheme A-A-B-B-A. So lines 1,2 & 5 rhyme with each other and lines 3&4 rhyme with each other. Typically the 1st, 2nd and 5th lines all have the same number of syllables (usually 8 or 9). The 3rd & 4th lines also have the same number of

syllables, usually they have 5 or 6 syllables.

FIRST LINESECOND LINETHIRD LINEFOURTH LINEFIFTH LINE

CAN YOU WRITE YOUR OWN LIMERICK BASED ON A BOOK YOU HAVE READ THIS WEEK?

EXAMPLE Limerick example by Edward LearThere was an old man in a tree,

Who was horribly bored by a bee;When they said, “does it buzz?”

He replied, “yes it does!”“It’s a regular brute of a bee!”

TO P TIP O NE TOP TIP T WO

TOP TIP T H REE

The first line of a limerick poem usually begins with

‘There was a…’ and ends with a name, person or

place. For example, ‘there was an old man

from Milan’

Limericks tell a story that is

humorous, but they don’t necessarily

make sense!

Think of different words to rhyme

with your first line’s ending.

RIDDLE ANSWERS: 1. A clock, 2. A towel, 3. Rain, 4. Your name, 5. A fire, 6. A shadow