The document discusses limericks, a form of lighthearted humorous poetry. It provides an example limerick about a man from Leeds who ate seeds and his head turned into a garden. It then defines limericks as having a rhyming scheme of AAAAB and includes another example. The document prompts the reader to complete a limerick about a man from Eeling and encourages them to write their own original limerick.

1. Limericks

2. There was a young man from Leeds
Who ate a whole packet of seeds,
In less than an hour
His nose was a flower
And his head was a garden of weeds!

3. Definition
 A limerick is a light hearted humorous
poem.
 A limerick always has the rhyming scheme
A-A-B-B-A
(So line 1,2 & 5 rhyme with each
other and lines 3&4 rhyme with each
other.)

4. There was an old man from Blackheath,
Who sat down on his set of false teeth.
He said, in his pain,
“I’ve done it again,
I’ve bitten myself underneath.

5. Complete this limerick
There was a man from Ealing
Who liked to hang from the _________.
He said, ‘ I can’t wear a hat.
But I hang like a ______
And it’s certainly a wonderful ________.

6. Now make your own…
There was a young ____from ____
Who
.
.
And……