Malapropism In 'The Rivals'

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Can you recall a poem that use collision sounds
Answer- jingle bells
Write your own story using the letter bank of onomatopoeia sounds below. Draw a cartoon strip using the sounds to depict your story
Ouch, click, pitter patter, thump, whisper, whizz, cheep, chortle, arf, neigh, purr, chug chug, honk, tick tock, zoom, snip, rat a tat tat, cuckoo
Invent your own onomatopoeia words of the following
Trees swaying in the wind
Children playing in the ground
Piano playing
Different Jungle sounds
Flowers blooming in the garden
7) Create some interesting portmanteau words from the below pair. Watch out, you might end up with words that already exist!

a) Soap Noodles
b) Study Table
c) Cricket played using a Hockey stick
d) Talking Parrot
e) Water Bottle

8) Interpret the following Mondegreens
a) I
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My aunt came to me and asked me whether I knew some illegible bachelors. She said she was very particular that he lived in influence and had enough accommodation from reliable pupil.

"Well, let me be more pacific." she said. "he should not have any monitory problems. If you have a boy in mind, let is meet him unanimously."

She had even decided on the suspicious hour when she would induct the wedding.

Now read the same paragraph without the malaproprisms...I mean malapropisms

My aunt came to me and asked me whether I knew some eligible bachelors. She said she was very particular that he lived in affluence and had enough recommendation from reliable people.

"Well, let me be more specific." she said. "he should not have any monetary problems. If you have a boy in mind, let is meet him

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