English is a Pain

Once you have listened to and worked on the poem in class have some fun underlining the same vowel sounds . Look them up if necessary in the Daniel Jones pronunciation dictionary or try the Phonetics Cambridge Style link in the label Useful links down below on this blog and note down the corresponding phonetic symbols . Enjoy!


ENGLISH IS A PAIN (pane)

Rain, reign, rein
English is a pain
Although the words
Sound just alike
The spellings not the same.

Bee, be, B
I’d rather climb a tree
Than learn to spell
The same old word
Not just one way,
But three!

There, their, they’re
Enough to make you swear,
Too many ways
To write one sound
I just don’t think it’s fair.

To, two, too
So what’s a kid to do ?
I think I’ll go
To live on Mars
And leave this mess with ewe(you).