[ai]

‘Good-bye’, said the fly, as I passed by.

“I’m going to try to fly to the sky”.

“You fly to the sky? You silly old fly!

The sky is too highFor a fly”, said I.

[ei]

Rain, rain, go to Spain,Don’t come here again.

Rain, rain, go away, Come again another day.Little Jane wants to play.

[l]

Tell me, tell me, dear little Polly,

What have you called your beautiful dolly?

My beautiful dolly isCaroline Isabel Millicent

Molly.

[p]

Peter picked a peck of pickled pepper.

A peck of pickled pepper Peter piper picked.

If Peter piper picked a peck of pickled pepper.

Where is the peck of pickled pepper Peter piper picked?

[θ]A thatcher of thatchwood

Went to thatch it a-thatching.

Did the thatcher of thatchwood.

Go to thatch it a-thatching?If a thatcher of thatchwood

Went to thatch it a- thatching,

Where is the thatchingThe thatcher of thatchwood

has thatched?

[n]

As I was going alone, alone, alone

Singing a comical song, song, song

The lane that I went was so long, long, long.

And so I went singing along.

[d]

David tried to ride the donkey

Up and down the ladder.Which of us, the donkey

said,Is mad, and which is the

madder?

[b]

Betty Botter bought some butter.

“But”, she said, “this butter’s bitter.

But a bit of better butterWill make my butter

better”.So she bought some better

butterAnd it made her butter

better.

[w]How much wood would a

wood-chuckchuck

If a wood-chuck would chuck wood?

We wonder whether the weather

Will weather the weather,Or whether the weatherThe weather will kill.

[r]

Robert Roley rolled a round roll round

A round roll Robert Roley rolled round.

Where is the round roll Robert Roley rolled round?

[s]Simple Simon met a pieman

Going to the fair.Says simple Simon to the

pieman“Lets me taste your ware.”Says the pieman to simple

Simon,“Show me first your penny”

Says simple Simon to the pieman,

“Indeed, I have not any”.

See simple Sam upon the ice,So slippery and smooth and

nice.He slips and slides and slides

and slips,But Simple Sammy seldom

trips,“the ice is smooth as smooth

can be,That’s why I do not trip”,

says he.

There was a young student of Bresser

Whose knowledge grew lesser and lesser

At the end of the fallHe knew nothing at allAnd now he’s a college

professor.

[Ә]

The more we study, the more we know,

The more we know, the more we forget.

The more we forget, the less we know.

The less we know. The less we forget.

The less we forget, the more we know.

Why study?