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This Week’s Topic is...

COMEDY 4WE E K

This week we will be exploring comedy! Comedy is often used in books and the main 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.

1.

WHAT STARTS WITH A ‘P’, ENDS W

ITH AN ‘E’ AND HAS THOUSANDS OF L

ETTE

RS? 4.

WHAT IS BLACK, WHITE, AN

D PINK ALL OVER?5.

I’M FULL OF KEYS, BUT I CAN’T O

PEN ANY DOOR. WHAT AM I?

2.

WHAT IS SOMETHING YOU CAN PUT IN YOUR POCKET THAT KEEPS I

T EM

PTY?

3. WHAT HAS TO BE BROKEN

BEFORE YOU CAN USE IT?

RIDDLE ANSWERS: 1. The Post Office, 2. A Large Hole, 3. An Egg, 4. An Embarrassed Zebra, 5. A Piano

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 and 5 rhyme with each other and lines 3 and 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 and 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.