Poetry Basic 4

POETRY – BASIC 4

1. If I’d as much money as I could ______. (a) buy (b) mend (c) spend

2. I never would _______ “old chairs to mend”. (a) smile (b)laugh (c)cry

3. A little _______ frog lived under a log. (a) red (b)green (c) black

4. A ______ lived by the water side. (a) duck (b)pig (c)frog

5. A little pig lived in a ______. (a)cage (b)sty (c) kennel

6. Three _______ lived in a kennel. (a) piglets (b)pups (c) tadpoles

7. Instead of saying, “Good- morning” he only said, _________. (a)”quack- quack” (b)”wee- wee” (c)”croak- croak”

8. Let dogs delight to __________. (a)bite and laugh (b)bark and bite (c)fight and bark

9. Let bears and lions ___________. (a)growl and fight (b)bark and fight (c)cry and sing

10. But, children, you should never let such angry _______ rise. (a) delight (b) passion (c) nature

11. People in the town all say, “what a _______ day!” (a)horrid windy (b) scatter paper (c) horrid flooded

12. People in the country say, “what a lovely ________ day!” (a) wind (b) blowy (c) racing

13. People at the sea side say, “what a ______ breezy day”. (a) country (b) blowy (c) splendid.

14. How many miles to Babylon? (a)Three scores and ten. (b)Five scores and twenty. (c)Two scores and one.

15. For want of a nail, the ______ was lost. (a)horse (b)shoe (c)rider

16. For want of a shoe, the _____ was lost. (a)horse (b) shoe (c)rider

17. For want of a horse, the rider was _____. (a) asleep (b) recovered (c) lost

18. Golden slumber kiss your eyes, smiles awake you when you ______. (a)sleep and snort (b) rise (c)faint

19. There was a naughty boy. And a naughty boy was he, he ran away to ________. (a) Nigeria (b)Iran (c) Scotland

20. Then he found that the ground was as _______. (a)hard (b)soft (c)short