The Best Game the Fairies Play by Rose Fyleman: Poem

(TESOL Worksheets--Poems ESL Listening)

Transcript: docs, pub
Video: HERE

The Best Game the Fairies Play by Rose Fyleman: poem

Video: https://youtu.be/imlVYl4Q5tw

The best game the fairies play,

    The best game of all,

Is sliding down steeples—

    (You know they’re very tall).

You fly to the weathercock,

    And when you hear it crow,

You fold your wings and clutch your things

    And then let go!

They have a million other games—

    Cloud-catching’s one,

And mud-mixing after rain

    Is heaps and heaps of fun;

But when you go and stay with them

    Never mind the rest,

Take my advice—they’re very nice,

    But steeple-sliding’s best!

Related Playlists: Poems ESL Listening Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x7ReDXIOlVgC1Ci0mGdDWqd ESL Listening Exercises Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x7xq-zLjulU2DRTjg2TNmAx Rose Fyleman playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x4xUwv4w9lyRwzhwcOr3STr&si=EH6dD3aCICn53mpX https://sites.google.com/view/reading-and-listening-practice

A Complaint by Rose Fyleman: Poem

(TESOL Worksheets--Poems ESL Listening)

Transcript: docs, pub
Video: HERE

A Complaint by Rose Fyleman: poem

Video: https://youtu.be/_xAzNyVbXcI

You’ve stolen all our mushrooms!

When friends come in to tea

In Fairyland it is the rule

To offer them a satin stool;

The grass is often very wet

And furniture is hard to get,

As you must all agree.

You've stolen all our mushrooms

And left not one behind.

If people came by night and day

And took your prettiest chairs away

And made them all into a stew

Without so much as thanking you,

Now would you call it kind ?

You've stolen all our mushrooms,

And, if you don't take care,

We'll go about the fields at night

And paint the toadstools brown and white,

And you'll be punished for your greed

By being very ill indeed

So you had best beware.

Related Playlists: Poems ESL Listening Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x7ReDXIOlVgC1Ci0mGdDWqd ESL Listening Exercises Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x7xq-zLjulU2DRTjg2TNmAx Rose Fyleman playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOY-0V_l_9x4xUwv4w9lyRwzhwcOr3STr&si=EH6dD3aCICn53mpX https://sites.google.com/view/reading-and-listening-practice

Mice by Rose Fyleman: Poems ESL Listening

(TESOL Worksheets--Poems ESL Listening)

Homework Worksheet: docs, pub, Quizlet HERE
Video HERE, 

Mice by Rose Fyleman: poems

Video: https://youtu.be/zwhJadYjA8g

Quizlet: https://quizlet.com/_6pcahf

Suggested Use:

Step 1: Look at the vocabulary. Check any words that you don’t know in your dictionary.

Step 2: Listen to the video. (Listen only.  Don’t look at the poem yet).

Step  3: Practice the vocabulary on Quizlet 

Step 4: Watch the video again.  This time look at the poem. Read and listen at the same time.

Step 5: Practice the vocabulary on Quizlet again 

Step 6: Listen one last time.  The last time, don’t look at the poem. 

Vocabulary

chin, face, mice, nibble, pink, rather, should, tail, teeth

Mice by Rose Fyleman: poems

I think mice

Are rather nice.

Their tails are long,

Their faces small,

They haven't any

Chins at all.

Their ears are pink,

Their teeth are white,

They run about

The house at night.

They nibble things

They shouldn't touch

And no one seems

To like them much

But I think mice

Are nice 

Vocabulary

chin - the bottom part of your face, below your mouth

face - the front part of the head where the eyes, nose, and mouth are, or the expression on this part:

She's got a long, thin face..

mice - plural of mouse

nibble - to eat something by taking very small bites:

He was nibbling a biscuit.

pink - being a pale red colour:

Look at the pretty, pink flowers

rather - slightly or to a degree:

I rather like it.

should - used to say or ask what is the correct or best thing to do:

You shouldn’t be so angry with him.

tail - the long, narrow part that sticks out at the back of an animal's body:

The dog's pleased to see you - he's wagging his tail.

teeth - plural of tooth