“Poetry is the rhythmic creation of beauty in words”
Edgar Allan Poe
In class we are learning about rhyme in Catalan, Spanish and … English!
We were familiar with the concept of rhyme because in our life we have listened and learned a lot of poems, songs and word games. In fact, it is precisely this simple, repetitive songs are often the first steps in learning a language because their rhyming and rhythmic structure helps to remember and retain words.
But not all the languages are the same and each has a different pattern of stress, intonation and rhythm that is important to recognise and understand.
In English, there is also another aspect that we need to consider when talking about rhyme… English pronunciation!
In Catalan and Spanish it is very easy to recognise if two words rhyme because their endings are written the same. In English it is not that easy: two words can be written very differently and sound the same!
Play this game and do like us and decide if the words rhyme or not.
Having learned about rhyme, we were ready to try to complete a poem with the rhyming words. It was very fun!
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