Bitesize Jonah (14)

This is one way we have tried to help our youth group eXcel get to grips with a passage. Read it out once properly. Then read it again replacing words in a subtle and not so subtle way (!). They have to spot the difference - we did it in a quiz format (which for the record, the boys won!):

Jonah 2:10-3:10

10 And the LORD commanded the fish, and it PUT (vomited) Jonah onto dry land.
3:1 Then the word of the LORD came to Jonah a FOURTH (second) time:
2 "Go to the great city of TARSHISH (Nineveh) and TAP DANCE (proclaim to it the message I give you)."
3 Jonah obeyed the word of the LORD and went to LONDON (Nineveh). Now Nineveh was a very SMALL (important) city--a visit required 8 YEARS (three days). 4 On the first day, Jonah started into the city. He proclaimed: "Forty more days and Nineveh will be overturned."
5 The Ninevites believed God. They declared a FEAST (fast), and all of them, from the greatest to the least, put on ABERCRONBIE (sackcloth). 6 When the news reached the king of Nineveh, he rose from THE LOO (his throne), took off his REGGAE (royal) robes, covered himself with SUNCREAM (sackcloth) and sat down in the dust.
7 Then he issued a proclamation in Nineveh: "By the decree of the king and his nobles: Do not let any man or beast, herd or flock, taste anything; do not let them eat or drink.
8 But let man and beast be covered with PERFUME (sackcloth). Let everyone call QUIETLY (urgently) on God. Let them give up their CHOCOLATE & CIGARETTES (evil ways and their violence). 9 Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish."
10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he had compassion and BROUGHT (did not bring) upon them the destruction he had threatened.