Recording 90, page 120
Exercise 1 Read and listen to the poem.

A Song about Myself

There was a naughty boy,

And a naughty boy was he,

He ran away to Scotland

The people for to see –

There he found

That the ground
Was as hard,

That a yard
Was as long,

That a song
Was as merry,

That a cherry
Was as red –

That lead
Was as weighty,

That fourscore
Was as eighty,

That a door
Was as wooden
As in England –

So he stood in his shoes

And he wondered,

He stood in his shoes

And he wondered.

2

Join the phrases and say what the boy found in Scotland.

the ground
a yard
a song
a cherry
lead
fourscore
a door

in Scotland was as

as in England.

weighty

wooden

hard

red

merry

eighty

long