— The Consumerist, Sept 2nd, 2010
Reading 1: Word Focus

gruesome
Examples: A gruesome crime in a Times Square hotel has riveted a nation. (The New York Times) To many Mexicans, the rising count of gruesome drug-related murders is evidence that the government's strategy has failed. (The New York Times)


Reading 1: Main Ideas

Para 1 Two conflicting attitudes to animals Para 2-3 Cruelty towards animals is now absent from stories for children. Para 4 Children‟s books tend to screen children from reality. Para 5 It is suggested that children‟s books should encourage respect for animals as independent beings, and that parents should let their children themselves decide whether to eat meat or not.
Word focus
Post-reading
Video-watching
Assignments
Warm-up activities
Sentence comprehension Exercises
Famous Quotes
Make a summary Scan through the three famous quotes on page 1 and decide whether the person is for or against animal rights; Then read them again and sum up each person‟s viewpoint into one sentence with your own words; Whose viewpoint do you agree with?

Reading 1: Word Focus
Segregate (derogative) Say you're shopping at Walmart and decide you want to pick up Barack Obama's book The Audacity of Hope or maybe you're to set from the rest or from an Meaning: Indianapolis Colts fanapart and want to hear what Super Bowl each other; isolate or to divide winning coach Tony Dungy has say in his book The Mentor Leader. But you can't find either book in the Biography section... Oh, maybe you should look in those unmarked shelves that make up the Read "black" section of Walmart's book selection. Q: the following extract from a news Bob Dyer, a columnist at the Beacon Journal in Ohio checked and try toat give it an appropriate title by outitem the book sections two area Walmarts and found that, using the word “segregate”. regardless of topic, if the author is black, the book gets lumped in with all the other books by black authors. A: Walmart Segregates Its Books By Race
Reading 1: Sentence Comprehension
Explain the words in red:

There is not one unified attitude to animals, but two conflicting attitudes that coexist in one individual, carefully segregated so that the inherent contradiction between them rarely causes trouble. (Para. 1) When farm animals are mentioned in picture books and stories, however, evasion may become a deliberate attempt to mislead the


Inflict torture on animals Barbaric treatment of helpless, defenseless creatures
In-reading

Reading 1 Reading 2 Reading 3 Reading 4
Reading 1: Background Information
Farm

Animals, The Farm
These are children‟s books for kids between the ages of 1 to 5.
Ladybird

Ladybird is a popular publisher of Englishlanguage children‟s books, with a nearly 100year-old history.
Picture-reading
Expressions you may use Have a natural love of animals Be aware of the pain of food animals Be sensitive to the treatment of animals Show sympathy for animals in our food chain
Unit One
Animals and Their Rights
Teaching Procedure
Famous quotes
Background information Main Idea / Gist Discussion Extra readings
Pre-reading
In-reading
Reading 1: Exercises

Do the exercise “Check Your Comprehension B” on page 5.
Reading 2: Background Information


Some beliefs of animal-rights activists
Reading 1: Background Information


The way meat is treated in Englishspeaking cultures
Meat is never served with identifiable animal parts (e.g. heads and feet), and is always packaged like blocks of tofu at the supermarket. People do not call meat by the name of the animal, except for chicken and fish (e.g. „beef‟ is from cows, „pork‟ from pigs, and „lamb‟ from sheep). Few people are farmers, and they have no idea how food animals are slaughtered in big factories.
Famous Quotes

Richard: Our life will be severely affected if we ensure animal rights, for the welfare of human society is based on exploitation of natural resources, including animals. Gary: We should give animals their rights, for babies and the mentally disadvantaged people, who also have limited intelligence like animals, enjoy the same rights as the average people.


Peter: The basic interests of avoiding pain and enjoying pleasure for both humans and animals should be given equal weight.