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                                  Questions to the video “How to write a limerick?”
1.     What is a limerick?
2.     What is the structure of limericks?
3.     What do you need if you want to write a limerick?
4.     Who was this genre of poetry invented by?
5.     What is the rhyming pattern of limericks?



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The words for revision:
1.     fiction
2.     non-fiction
3.     literature
4.     cookery book
5.     novel
6.     glossy magazine
7.     recipe
8.     timetable
9.     newspaper
10.                       TV guide
11.                       folklore
12.                       poetry
13.                       biography
14.                       autobiography
15.                       essay
16.                       legend
17.                       fable
18.                       diary
19.                       fascinating
20.                       amusing
21.                       detective story
22.                       instruction
23.                       boring
24.                       frightening
25.                       enjoyable
26.                       humorous
27.                       genre
28.                       surprising
29.                       exciting

30.                       relaxation

Limericks

Text 1   What is a limerick?
A limerick is a form of the poetry of nonsense. As for its form a limerick is a five – line poem. Limericks have rhyme structure AABBA. Lines 1, 2 and 5 rhyme. Lines 3 and 4 rhyme.
As for the plot of limericks, usually the first line tells the reader about the main character, it may contain his or her name and the geographical name from where this character comes from. The second line informs the reader what specific features that character possessed or what happened to him or her. And in the other three lines it’s said what happened next. The fifth line narrates about the reaction of the people around to this behaviour.
It is hard to check who the founder of this genre is. Nevertheless, a great deal of information is connected with Edward Lear while speaking about limericks. Edward Lear, a famous English poet, is called “the father of limericks” or “the king of English nonsense verse”. Edward Lear didn’t call his verse “limericks’. The word “limerick” first appeared in published works in 1892 after the poet’s death.
There exist a lot of guesses on the origin of limericks. Some people think that the word “limerick” comes from the name of Edward Lear himself (Lear + lyric). It is also the name of one of the most famous towns in Ireland. The word “limerick” is pronounced with the stress on the first syllable exactly the way the name of the town of Limerick. There’s also an idea that perhaps the word “limerick” comes not from the name of an Irish town but from Irish words “a merry lay” which mean “a merry song”. Anyway, limericks appeared throughout Irish and British literature in 1846 in Edward Lear’s A book of Nonsense. This book was initially written for children but soon it became popular with adults as well. While Lear didn’t invent the form, he certainly popularized it. Lear is the author of 212 limericks.
Nowadays limerick lovers hold funny limerick contests in many English speaking countries. Also International Limerick Day is celebrated each year on the 12th of May when people from different backgrounds come together to celebrate the birthday of Edward Lear, share their creativity and write limericks.
Limericks can be of great help to people studying the English language as they possess a distinctive rhyme, rhythm and intonation. Limericks can be great for helping pupils improve pronunciation skills.





Text 2. “The father of limericks” – Edward Lear.

Edward Lear was born in Highgate, England on 12 May, 1812. He was the twentieth (!) child of Jeremiah Lear, a London stockbroker, and his wife Ann. Soon after Edward was born, his father lost most of his money, and the family had to adapt to a much lower standard of living. At the age of six, Lear began to suffer from bouts of epilepsy, and a few years later he began to experience periods of acute depression. He continued to suffer from these and other health problems for the rest of his life.
For much of his childhood, Lear was brought up and educated by his elder sister Ann. It was thanks to her that Lear was introduced to both classical and modern literature, especially poetry, and to drawing. Already at the age of 15, he sold his poems and drawings to earn some money.
As a young man, Lear began to earn his living by illustrating scientific books on birds, and later on he became a landscape painter. In fact, he became so well-known that he was asked to give drawing lessons to Queen Victoria herself! All the same, Lear's success as a landscape painter was rather short-lived, and he gradually became disillusioned by the lack of interest in his work.
The first edition of A Book of Nonsense was published in 1846, and was a collection of both old limericks and new ones composed by Lear himself. Two further editions were published in 1855 and 1861.

Although he was born in England, Lear actually spent most of his adult life travelling abroad, particularly to the Mediterranean countries. On his travels he drew landscapes and animals, particularly birds. The only trusted companion was his cat, Foss, who died in 1886 and was buried with some ceremony in a garden at Villa Tennyson. Lear eventually bought some land and built a house in San Remo in Italy, where he died in 1888 at the age of 76.