第二屆博藝盃全港朗誦比賽
小學 P1-P2 組英語指定誦材
Poems:
The Wind by Christina Rossetti (P1-P2)
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you.
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I.
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by
Secret by John Agard (P1-P2)
Tell me your secret.
I promise not to tell.
I’ll guard it safely at the bottom of a well.
Tell me your secret.
Tell me, tell me, please.
I won’t breathe a word, not even
To the bees.
Tell me your secret.
It will be a pebble in my mouth.
Not even the sea can make me spit it out.
The Miser (P1-P2 Story Telling)
A miser sold all that he had and bought a lump of gold.
He buried it
in a hole in the ground and went to look at it daily. One
of his friends
noticed and discovered the secret. He found the lump of
gold, and
stole it.
The Miser saw the hole empty and began to cry out loud.
A
neighbour said to him, "Pray do not grieve so; but go and
take a stone,
and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still
lying there. It
will do you quite the same service; for when the gold
was there, you
had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it."
第二屆博藝盃全港朗誦比賽
小學 P3-P4 組英語指定誦材
Poems:
Benediction by James Berry (P3-P4)
Thanks to the ear
That someone may hear
Thanks to seeing
That someone may see
Thanks to feeling
That someone may feel
Thanks to touch
That one may be touched
Thanks to flowering of white moon
And spreading shawl of black night
Holding villages and cities together
Six Little Mice (P3-P4)
Six little mice sat down to spin,
Pussy passed by, and she peeped in.
What are you doing, my little men?
Weaving coats for gentlemen.
Shall I come in and cut off your threads?
No, no, Mistress Pussy,
you’d bite off our heads!
Oh, no, I won’t, I’ll help you to spin.
That may be so, but you can’t come in!
The Boy Who Cried Wolf (P3-P4 Story
Telling)
A shepherd-boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a
village. He
brought out the villagers a few times by crying out,
"Wolf! Wolf!".
When his neighbours came to help him, he just laughed
at them.
One day, the Wolf did truly come. The Shepherd-boy
alarmed and
shouted in an agony of terror, "Help, do come and help
me! The Wolf
is killing the sheep!". But….. no one paid any heed to his
cries, nor
rendered any assistance. The Wolf destroyed the whole
flock.
Nobody believes a liar, even when he speaks the truth.
第二屆博藝盃全港朗誦比賽
小學 P5-P6 組英語指定誦材
Poems:
Don’t be Scared by Carol Ann Duffy
(P5-P6)
The dark is only a blanket
For the moon to put on her bed
The dark is a private cinema
For the movie dreams in your head.
The dark is the wooden hole
Behind the strings of happy guitars.
The Dark is a jeweller’s velvet cloth
Where children sleep like pearls.
The dark is a spool of film
To photograph boys and girls,
So smile in your sleep in the dark.
Don’t be scared.
Rainbow’s End by Sally Clark (P5-P6)
At the end of the rainbow,
I thought I would find
A bucket of quarters
And nickels and dimes.
Too heavy to carry,
I thought it might be,
So I took along friends
On the journey with me.
To the end of the rainbow
We followed the course,
Our heads full of dreams
That we’d find at the source.
Though empty the bucket
Of money or gold,
We found greater treasure
In stories we told
Of traveling the distance
Through hill and through vale;
The prize we’d discovered?
That friends never fail.
The Fox and The Crow (P5-P6 Story Telling)
A Fox once saw a Crow fly off with a piece of cheese in
its beak and settle on a
branch of a tree.
“That's for me, as I am a Fox,” the Fox said to himself,
and he walked up to the foot of the tree.
“Good day, Mistress Crow," he cried. "How well you are
looking today! How glossy your feathers and how bright
your eyes. I feel sure your voice must surpass that of
other birds, just as your figure does. Let me hear but one
song from you that I may greet you as the Queen of
Birds."
The Crow lifted up her head and began to caw her best,
but the moment she opened her mouth the piece of
cheese fell to the ground, only to be snapped up by the
Fox.
“That will do,” said the Fox. “In exchange for your
cheese I will give you a piece of advice for the future Do not trust flatterers.”