Words:

• talkative
• improve
• obliging
• written
• tick-tock
• clock
• truthful
• itself
• kitchen
• fear
• reaches
• most

Lesson:

1. Listen to the kitchen clock! To itself it ever talks, From its place it never walks; ‘Tick-tock-tick-tock:’ Tell me what it says.
   
2. ‘I’m a very patient clock, Never moved by hope or fear, Though I’ve stood for many a year; Tick-tock-tick-tock:’ That is what it says.
   
3. ‘I’m a very truthful clock: People say about the place, Truth is written on my face; Tick-tock-tick-tock:’ That is what it says.
   
4. ‘I’m a most obliging clock; If you wish to hear me strike, You may do it when you like; Tick-tock-tick-tock:’ That is what it says.
   
5. ‘I’m a very friendly clock; For this truth to all I tell, Life is short, improve it well; Tick-tock-tick-tock:’ That is what it says.
   
6. What a talkative old clock! Let us see what it will do When the hour hand reaches two; ‘Ding-ding–tick-tock:’ That is what it says.