Songs and rhymes

   Oxford Advance Learner Dictionary states that song is a poem set to music and intented to be sung. And sameness of sound between words or syllabebus is rhymes. Like other teaching aids, songs and rhymes are also principal supplementary aids. They provide us resources to teach and listen but they are not everything. They help to develop language proficiency as they motivate students in the classroom . They learn songs and rhyms by heart and apply them in real life situations. It is easy to understand  the  lesson because of gestures,mimes,postures and facial expresson while singing. Students can learn more with fun as they sing by thrir heart. They provide the chance of a pace learning in the class. They provide an excellent means for introducing,
revewing vocabulary and idioms. They are equally helpful to teach sound patterns and  strees. Different foreign cultures can also be learnt by the help of songs and rhymes. Some examples of them are fallows:

        1) The farmer's in his din
                 The farmer's in his din
                    E-l-E-L, The farmer's in his din.
                 The farmer wants a wife............
                      The wife wants a child........
                             The child wants a nurse....
                                  The nurse wants a dog.....

                                           We all pat the dog.

                2)The less he spoke
                    the more he heard;
                    The more he saw
                    The less he spoke.

         3)A wise old ow
            Lived in an oak;
        
                4)'' Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat.

                    Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat,
                   Where have you been?
                 '' I'have been to london
                  To look at the queen.''
                     ''What did you see there ?
                      '' I saw a little mouse
                   Under her chair.''