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‘Oh I wish I’d looked after me teeth, And spotted the dangers beneath All the toffees I chewed. And the sweet sticky food Oh, I wish I’d looked after me teeth. (а) What is the poet’s wish? (b) What harmed her teeth?

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Read the given extracts and answer the questions that follow:

‘Oh I wish I’d looked after me teeth,
And spotted the dangers beneath All the toffees I chewed.
And the sweet sticky food
Oh, I wish I’d looked after me teeth.

(а) What is the poet’s wish?

(b) What harmed her teeth?

(c) Give the meaning of ‘spotted’.

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(а) The poet wishes that she should have taken proper care of her teeth.

(b) The toffees that she had chewed during childhood harmed her teeth.

(c) ‘saw’.

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