With your partner list out the happenings the speaker is worried about.
The speaker is worried about the following happenings, as mentioned in the poem:
● If he/she gets dumb in school
● If they closed the swimming pool
● If he/she got beaten up
● If there was poison in his/her cup
● If he/she began to cry
● If he/she got sick and died
● If he/she flunked in that test
● If green hair grew on his/her chest
● If nobody liked him/her
● If a bolt of lightning struck him/her
● If he/she did not grow taller
● If his/her head started getting smaller
● If the fish stopped biting
● If the wind tore his/her kite
● If they started a war
● If his/her parents get divorced
● If the bus gets late
● If his/her teeth don’t grow in straight
● If he/she tore his/her own pants
● If he/she never learned to dance