Write your own football poem
Look at the pattern of the following poem. How are numbers used? What
words repeat? Follow the pattern to complete your own football poem. I
suggest you find the rhymes of the numbers for line 2 first to help you.
Eleven English footballers
Eleven English footballers
Training under Sven
One pulled a ligament
Then there were ten.
Ten English footballers
Standing in a line
One
Then there were nine.
Nine English footballers
Just couldn’t wait
One
Then there were eight.
Eight English footballers
__________________
One ______________
Then there were seven.
Seven English footballers
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One _______________
Then there were six.