Answer — Exercise 2
10 - Pronunciation·New Headway Upper-Intermediate - Workbook
Question
Limericks are short poems with a distinctive rhythm and rhyming pattern (AABBA). Listen and transcribe the lines written in phonetics in these two limerics.
Answer
The Pelican
A rare old bird is a pelican
His beak can hold more than his belly can
He can take in his beak
Enough food for a week
And I'm damned if I know how the hell he can!
The Lady from Twickenham
There was a young lady from Twickenham
Whose shoes were too tight to walk quick in them
She came back from a walk
Looking whiter than chalk
And she took them both off and was sick in them.
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