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Polite Children, , A, , May we have our ball, please, May we have it back?, We never meant to lose it, , Or give it such a whack., , It shot, It shot, , right past, , the, , aeakapoy, , goalie, , right past the goal, And really then what happened next, , Was out of our control., Spesl, , It, , truly was such rotten luck, , For all concerned that you, Were halfway up aladder n, , When the ball, We, , came, , flying through., , also very much regret L, , What happened to your cat, It's tragic when an animal, Gets landed on like that., , Your poor wife too we understand, , Was, , pretty much upset, , When phoning for the doctor, And phoning for the vet., , whack hit very hard, , rotten very bad, , regret feel sorry about, , tragic very sad
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She, Tt, , quite, , forgot the oven., , simply 1S no joke, , When, , your husband's half unconscious, , And your house is full of smoke., , The fire-brigade, of course, meant well, t their mistake, Tt wasn, That there was no tire to speak of, , Tust a bit of well-done steak., , Still clouds have silver, , linings, , And pains are soon forgot, , While your lawn will surely flourish, From the hosing that it got., The game of life is never lost, The future's not all black, , And the ball itselfseems quite, unmarked., , So... may we have it back?, Allan Ahlberg, , clouds have silver linings 'Every cloud has a silver, situation will also have something good about it., saying that means that every bad, flourish grow wel black without any hope, steak, , a, , thick, flat piece of meat, , lining' is a
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British children's authorwho has written more than 150books, his wife, Janet, vorked together-he wrote the books and she drew pictures, s for, them., hildren all over the world have, stories, and, grown up reading and loving Ahlberg's, , Alan, Ahlberg (1938-) is a, He and, , poems, , ne poem is about many small accidents that happen to a couple and their pet, aftera groun., up of, children playing football kick their ball too hard., A., , Answer these, , questions., , .Who is the speaker ofthe poem? Who is he/she speaking to?, , 2., , Who had 'rotten luck? Why?, , 3., , According to the speaker, what is not a joke?, 44. What does the speaker say is a 'silver lining?, 5. What does the, speaker want?, B., , Think and answer., , Why do you think the poem is named 'Polite Children'? Do you agree with the title), C., , Read the poem and, , complete the flow chart., They kicked the ball, too hard., , His wife was upset, , She called the doctor, and the vet., , The fire brigade, arrived to help., , But there was no, , fire-just smoke from, the burningsteak
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CIVI), , VWER, , of hildren., suffered a, are speaking to the owner of a house who has, peaker is a group, They, 1. 1ndal because a ball that the children have been playing with hascaused a lot of things to go, e, , 1, , great, wrong., , haluse owner, , 2. The hou, caused, , him to fall, , 3, Thefact, fact, was, , had rOtten luck, , down., , because the ball hit him while he, , was, , tanding on, , a, , ladder and, , had to worry about her unconscious husband and a house that, oT, that, the, laay, the, house, with smoke is not a, joke., , filled, , The speaker wants to e n, , tne owners that although terrible things have happened to tnem did, , eheir house, their lawn will be lush and green because of all the water poured on it by the firemen., That is the, , silver, , speaker, 5. The, B., , lining., , wants, , the, , ball back., , F r e er e s p o n s e, , C.Agroup of children, , was playing, , with a, , They kicked the ball, , The ball hit, , too hard., , and knocked him, off a ladder., , ball., , She forgot that the, Oven, , a man, , was, , on. The, , turned, , house filled, , fell down, , His wife was upset., She, called, the, , unconscious, , doctor and the vet., , landed on his cat., , The, , man, , and, , with smoke., , The fire, , brigade, , arrived to help., , They poured water, , the lawn, and the house., , all, , over, , But there, fire-just, , was, , no, , smoke, , from the burning, steak.
