Music is full of rhythm and so is speech.
When we talk in English, we use words that have
a different number of syllables. The number of
syllables in a word gives the word its rhythm.
Read this song. Do you know how many syllables are in each word? Look carefully
at the song and write the number of syllables you think there are in each word.
Now listen to the
song and check.
Listen to these words and write how many syllables you hear in each one.