If I were a bird, ….

‘Unreal’ conditional (Type 2)

If I were a teacher….1. If I were a teacher, I would teach many

students to learn more knowledge.(Dick)2. If I were a teacher, I would teach my

students to be good boys and good girls.(Martine)

If you were the Principal, what would you do?

Our Principal

A Poem

If I were the Principal

By Kenn Nesbitt http://www.poetry4kids.com/index.php

Stanza 1

If I were the Principal, boy, things would change.

Our school would be fun, if a little bit strange.

We'd keep kangaroos in the classrooms as pets.

We'd travel to Tonga and learn to fly jets.

We'd keep kangaroos in the classrooms as pets.

kangarooclassroom

We'd travel to Tonga and learn to fly jets

jet

Tonga

Stanza 1

If I were the Principal, boy, things would change.

Our school would be fun, if a little bit strange.

We'd keep kangaroos in the classrooms as pets.

We'd travel to Tonga and learn to fly jets.

Stanza 2

We'd get to make movies, and all become stars.

For field trips we'd blast off on rockets to mars.

We'd learn to raise monsters and build time machines.

We'd surf on tsunamis in sleek submarines.

For field trips we'd blast off on rockets to mars.

rocket

Mars

We'd learn to raise monsters and build time machines.

Monster Time machine

We'd surf on tsunamis in sleek submarines.

Tsunamisubmarine

Stanza 2

We'd get to make movies, and all become stars.

For field trips we'd blast off on rockets to mars.

We'd learn to raise monsters and build time machines.

We'd surf on tsunamis in sleek submarines.

Stanza 3

We'd learn to make robots with nuclear brains,

and dig up a dinosaur's fossil remains.We'd battle with pirates and plunder their

gold.We'd duel with dragons for treasures untold.

We'd learn to make robots with nuclear brains

Robots brain

and dig up a dinosaur's fossil remains

Dinosaur’s fossil

We'd battle with pirates and plunder their gold.

pirates Gold

We'd duel with dragons for treasures untold.

dragon treasures

Stanza 3

We'd learn to make robots with nuclear brains,

and dig up a dinosaur's fossil remains.We'd battle with pirates and plunder their

gold.We'd duel with dragons for treasures untold.

Stanza 4

We'd practice some potions and magical spells

to stink up the schoolyard with sickening smells,

to make us invisible, eighty feet tall,or turn into liquid or walk through a wall.

We'd practice some potions and magical spells

Magical spells

to make us invisible, eighty feet tall,

Eighty feet tall

or turn into liquid or walk through a wall.

Turn into liquid

Walk through a wall

Stanza 4

We'd practice some potions and magical spells

to stink up the schoolyard with sickening smells,

to make us invisible, eighty feet tall,or turn into liquid or walk through a wall.

Stanza 5

Yes, if I were the Principal, that's what we'd do.

We'd lock evil scientists up in the zoo,while vanquishing villains and capturing

crooks.In other words, we would read many more

books.

We'd lock evil scientists up in the zoo

Evil scientists zoo

In other words, we would read many more books.

Stanza 5

Yes, if I were the Principal, that's what we'd do.

We'd lock evil scientists up in the zoo,while vanquishing villains and capturing

crooks.In other words, we would read many more

books.

Poem Poets often make use of different sound

devices to make their poems more interesting and fun.

e.g. 1.Rhymes 2.Repetition 3.Alliteration

Rhymes

• Rhyming words end in exactly the same sound.

• e.g. If I were the Principal, boy, things would change.

Our school would be fun, if a little bit strange. ‘change’ rhymes with ‘strange’.(stanza 1, line 1, line 2)

Rhymes

• e.g. We'd keep kangaroos in the classrooms as pets.

We'd travel to Tonga and learn to fly jets.

• ‘pets’ rhymes with ‘jets’.( stanza 1, line 3 and line 4)

Repetition

• e.g. If I were the Principal, boy, things would change. (stanza 1, line 1)

• e.g. If I were the Principal, that’s what we’d do. (stanza 5, line 17)

• Repetition - ‘If I were the Principal’.

Alliteration• Alliteration is the use of words that begin

with the same consonant sound in a line. • e.g. ‘ We’d keep kangaroos in the

classrooms as pets.’ ( stanza 1, line 3)• e.g. ‘ We’d get to make movies, and all

become stars.’ ( stanza 2, line 5)

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