Warming up the class with some ‘Spike’.

A great 5 minute warmer before a class:

  1. Write the poem below, onto the board before the students come in.
  2. When they sit down and start looking at what’s written ask one or two of them that may already be smiling to read the poem aloud.
  3. Then ask each student in turn to come up to the board and draw a picture for each word in the poem (yes, prepositions, verbs, nouns everything!).
  4. Then get the class to read the poem together in unison.
  5. Finish! get on with the rest of the lesson.

(extension at end of class 2 minutes)

Rain is uncountable, so WHY does Spike refer to “THE rain“?

 

RainThere are holes in the sky

Where the rain gets in

But they’re ever so small

That’s why the rain is thin.

By Spike Milligan


The son of a highly mobile British military officer actor / comedian / director / playwright / poet / author Spike Milligan was born in India and raised throughout the ‘colonies’ of the Far East.

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