Pig starts fire

Here is another good reason not to eat batteries:

Notice the use of the relative pronoun “who” with reference to pigs. Newspaper headlines often use alliteration, and this one is no exception!

Depending upon the age of the pupils, a short text such as this can be used for a variety of activities:

  • animals and their young: pig/piglet, cat/kitten etc

  • animals and their meat: pig/pork, sheep/mutton etc

  • farm animals

  • search websites for other animal stories or examples of alliteration in headlines

  • Writing task, eg a news report about the incident from the pigs’ perspective