Using Poems to Illustrate Grammar Points

(TESOL Materials--Poems, Sources for Model Texts)

Double Comparatives

* The More We Get Together Nursery Rhyme and Beans Beans the Magical Fruit

Prepositions of Movement

* The Bear Went Over The Mountain for Prepositions of Movement

Present Passive

* What Are Little Boys Made Of--Present Passive

Relative Clauses

* The House that Jack Built

* Relative Clauses with "This is the House that Jack Built"

Verb and Preposition Collocation

* Lesson on Lazy Jane by Shel Silverstein