Nursery Rhymes. This is one of my favorite lessons, because I'm going to read to you for nursery rhymes. Now, nursery rhymes are short children's stories that I also learned as a kid. These are great for the pronunciation, the rhythm and the melody of English at the moment. It's not important that you know all the words. Later you can look them up in a dictionary.
Just relax. Listen and enjoy. The first one. JACK and Jill went up the hill. I'll read it twice. Here we go.
JACK and Jill went up the hill To fetch a pail of water jack failed down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after. Again. JACK and Jill went up the hill To fetch a pail of water. JACK fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after. This one is called Old Mother Hubbard. Here we go.
On Mother Hubbard went to her cupboard to fetch your poor dog, a bone. When she got there, her cupboard was bare. And so the poor dog had none. Again, Old Mother Hubbard went to her cupboard to fetch her poor dog, a bone. When she got there, her cupboard was bear and so the poor dog had none This one is short. We Willie Winky.
Here we go. We will win keep running through the town. Upstairs downstairs in his night gown again, we really wing keep running through the town, upstairs, downstairs in his night gown. The last one is called Little jack Horner. Here we go. Little jack Horner sat in a corner eating his Christmas pie.
He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum and said, What a good boy am I again, little jack Horner sad in that corner eating his Christmas pie. He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum and said, What a good boy am I. Okay, coming up tongue twisters See you then