☻ HAVE SOME FUN ONOMATOPOEIA

Exercise 6.1. Match the names of the animals and birds in the box with what they do:

a bird a hen a duck a rooster a turkey a frog a dog

a pig a cow a horse a snake a lion a tiger an elephant

1. roars 2. moos 3. hisses 4. crows 5. growls 6. tweets 7. trumpets 8. gobbles 9. barks 10. grunts 11. croaks 12. clucks 13. neighs 14. quacks

Exercise 6.2. Match the sounds in the box with the animals that can make them:

woof moo croak neigh-neigh cluck-cluck mew

hoo-woo hiss-swish cock-a-doodle-doo squeak-squeak

1. snake 2. horse 3. dog 4. chicken 5. mouse 6. owl 7. rooster 8. cat 9. frog 10. cow

Exercise 6.3. Read the poem and make a list of objects, animals, etc. with the sounds they produce:

Sounds

What lots f sounds we can hear,

These are the lines that make them clear.

With anger bangs the closed door.

In zoos hungry lions roar.

The lights are on, the switches click,

When squeezed the mouse-toy may squeak.

The drops of water downward drop –

The sound will be plop, plop, plop.

When darkness falls – a wolf moon-howls,

“Tu-whu”, cry out evening owls.

We catch the distant chimes of clock,

It’s time the dwellers locked the lock.

Amid the silence car horns will blare –

Through windows frightened drivers stare.

If a toothache torments you – you groan,

You might as well in this case moan.

The fire crackles, crackle fire!

So that we can your mirth admire.

A fine green apple binds the branch,

You tear it down, bite and crunch.

A nervous girl with pleasure shrieks

When something from behind her creaks.

Don’t be surprised; a sudden bump

May often cause an awkward thump.

A famous violin player’s rasping

Most always leads to viewers’ gasping.

And do please note yelping “Wow”

You sound a dodgity bow-bow

Exercise 6.4. Pick a word from the box to make each pair of lines in the poem rhyme. The first one is done for you:

“quack, quack” hog “bow-wow” owl

rat “caw, caw” cuckoos “mew, mew ”

“Bow-wow,” says the dog,

“_______,” says the cat,

“Grunt, grunt,” goes the ____,

And “Squeak, squeak,” goes the ____.

“Tu-whu,” says the ____,

“_______,” says the crow,

“_______,” says the duck,

And what ____ say you know.

☺Having fun with rhymes

Exercise 6.5. Read the limericks and find eye rhyme in them:

*****

There was an old man who said, “Hush!

I perceive a young bird in this bush!”

When they said, “Is it small?”

He replied, “Not at all!

It is four times as big as the bush!”

*****

There was a faith-healer of Deal,

Who said, “Although pain isn’t real,

If I sit on a pin

And it punctures my skin

I dislike what I fancy I feel.”

*****

Said an ape as he swung by his tail

To his children, both female and male,

“From your offspring, my dears,

In a couple of years,

May evolve a professor at Yale.”

☺Having fun with euphemisms

Exericse 6.6. Do you know that euphemisms are also means of political correctness in today’s society? Can you match the words on the left to their politically correct synonyms on the right?

ugly old fat unfunny dirty stupid dead criminal unable to spell

humorously challenged intellectually challenged morally challenged horizontally challenged chronologically challenged metabolically challenged orthographically challenged hygienically challenged aesthetically challenged

☺Having fun with proverbs

Exercise 6.7. Complete the proverbs below:

When the cat is away Where there’s a will Better late Look What’s done An apple a day One man’s meat Honesty A new broom All’s well A friend in need A bird in the hand No news So many men, All that glitters

that ends well is not gold is another man’s poison sweep clean is a friend indeed is worth two in the bush is good news keeps a doctor away so many minds the mice will play can’t be undone is the best policy than never before you leap there’s a way