Happy New Year. Year Five

Well here we are again and I'm afraid I've been a bit lazy the last few weeks with the christmas holidays and all.(That's one of the reasons I love being a teacher)
I went to England for the festive season and realised that everything I am teaching you goes out the window when you have to deal with regional accents (especially Northern England and the grammar mistakes that the majority of the population make in every sentence.  (Even the pilot on the plane.  Well it was Easyjet).
So I take back every criticism I have ever made about grammatical mistakes, because I realise that many of you speak better English than  kids in the U:K of your own age.
So back to school and the poem called Cargoes about three very different types of boats or are they ships?

We're going to have a another competition to see who will be the first person in the class to actually learn this poem by heart.  It's not obligatory  but I still remember it from when I was at school and I really enjoyed memorizing it.

Cargoes

By John Masefield

QUINQUIREME of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine. 5 Stately Spanish galleon coming from the Isthmus, Dipping through the Tropics by the palm-green shores, With a cargo of diamonds, Emeralds, amethysts, Topazes, and cinnamon, and gold moidores. 10 Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke-stack, Butting through the Channel in the mad March days, With a cargo of Tyne coal, Road-rails, pig-lead, Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays. These are the three boats.  The Quinquerime as I told you a boat used in Roman times more than two thousand years ago  rowed by slaves and with sails.   The Galleon a beautiful Spanish ship  which carried amazing treasures from South America many of which lie at the bottom of the sea waiting for someone to find to get us out of THE CRISIS. The British Coaster a dirty steam boat for carrying provisions to Britain  espesially during the second world war.