Published by Swiss James on 13 Jun 2008
Saw- (not the book of the film)
This, believe it or not, is a children’s English text book. It continues:
“See me saw the seesaw”
“I saw! I saw you saw the seesaw!”
My workmate asked me to read this book aloud into an MP3 recorder for his daughter. She needed to hear how it should sound with a proper English accent, but since no such accent was available, I did it.
The thing reads more like a tongue twister than a gentle introduction to English- the next page shows a duck, which flies over the cat’s head, so he ducks:
I saw you duck the duck!
I saw you saw the seesaw!
Etc. etc.
My workmate’s daughter is only 5 years old and she’s now spending her free time reading a book that makes no sense, and listening to my tortured Yorkshire vowels on MP3
“By ‘eck- look at t’dook! T’cat is ducking t’dook!”
There’s no hope for the poor girl.
