All you need to do is just print the extract out and read it to your class. See if they can work out what genre it is. This is a useful way to start or end your lesson.
Why not come back regularly and collect the extracts?
 

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There was an old person from Crewe

There was an old person from Crewe
Who found a dead mouse in his stew.
Said the waiter "Don't shout
And wave it about,
Or the rest will be wanting one too!"

Anonymous

This limerick is taken from Weaving Words - Poems in Different Forms selected by David Orme.
 It is part of the Longman Book Project.
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Can any of your class Spot the Genre? It is a limerick. Discuss what a limerick is (e.g. discuss the rhyming pattern). Perhaps the class would like to make up thier own limerick? Did they find this limerick funny? Why? What does Anonymous mean?