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Remember the rhyme in lesson 5?

One, two - buckle my shoe,
Three, four - knock on the door,
Five, six - pick up sticks,
Seven, eight - close the gate,
Nine, ten - a big fat hen.

Now let's carry on:-

Eleven, twelve - dig and delve,
Thirteen, fourteen - couples courting,
Fifteen, sixteen - mice in the kitchen,
Seventeen, eighteen - I'm still waiting,
Nineteen, twenty - my plate's empty.

10 - 100 Some Interesting Facts about numbers

I have ten fingers on my hands and ten toes on my feet.
There are eleven players on a cricket team.
There are twelve months in a year.
In the UK thirteen is an unlucky number.
There are fourteen days in a fortnight.
Three times five is fifteen.
If you sleep eight hours a day, then you are awake for sixteen hours a day.
In the Harry Potter series, 17 is the coming of age for wizards.
There are eighteen holes in a round of golf.
Nineteen is the atomic number of potassium.
If you add up all my fingers and toes it comes to twenty.
There are 30 days in the months April, June, September and November.
The expression "forty winks", means a short sleep.
The phrase "fifty-fifty" commonly expresses something divided equally in two.
There are 60 seconds in a minute and 60 minutes in an hour.
In the Bible a man's life was said to span 70 (3 score years and ten).
At birth, water accounts for approximately 80 percent of an infant's body weight.
The interior angles of a square measure 90 degrees each.
Water boils at 100° centigrade.