Limerick is made up of couplet with same rhymes and another couplet with different rhymes to the former and it ends with a line that applies the same rhyme to the first two. Usually it contains humour and the “punch line” or “the heart of the joke” is at the end of the limerick.
Limerick can be used for pre-reading for students with some and high English level proficiency because it requires students to play with words. Therefore they have to have language and vocabulary in order to come out with limericks. For low level of proficiency students, if teacher wants them to write a limerick perhaps the teacher can provide some of the words that can be used for creating limericks.
We have an opportunity to write limericks in one of the EDU 3234 classes. The different thing here is we are given the task in groups of three or four; unlike the usual writings of journals that require us to write it individually. “Two heads are better than one” puts pressure on us to come out with a good limerick. It is not only a piece of writing but it requires us to think of a joke that can be understood and at the same time can tickle everyone’s hearts. I team up with Sheila and Izzatie this time and it takes us quite a few times to actually able to create a limerick because we have to keep the same rhymes and the beats of the limerick. Nevertheless Izzatie has such a cool idea that at the end of the class, we manage to write the limerick on the board in front of the class.
After writing it down, we have to chorally reading it. Our turn is the last one and when it is nearly to it I can feel my adrenaline rushes. It is not like I never speak in front of others (it is sometimes even more than that) but this time the excitement to read something which is new to us is what makes me feel nervous and at the same time I want it to be good and smoothly flowed. While reading the limerick, I feel myself satisfied for what we have done that day and I feel some sort of happiness that it helps in reducing our stress and tension that come when we worry a lot about our examination. Overall I just love the activity and I do enjoy myself a lot.
*big applause for everyone…^-^
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