Reading One
Check your vocabulary
Paraphrase the following sentences with a special focus on the italicized parts.
When farm animals are mentioned in picture books and stories, however, evasion may before a deliberate attempt to mislead the child about the nature of modern farms, and so screen him from reality. Picture books and stories deliberately avoid presenting the real situation in our modern farms. Children, therefore, are kept from seeing the reality.
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Reading One
•Step 2 Reading Activities
Check your comprehension
In the text, the author quotes a nursery rhythm. What’s the theme of the nursery rhythm? The nursery rhyme has the theme of cruelty towards animals – mice, in this case.
Teaching steps
• • • • Step Step Step Step 1 2 3 4 Course introduction Reading Activities Exercises Homework
•Step 2 Reading Activities
• Section One: warm-up discussion • Watch the following video and think about the animal image in the cartoon.
Reading One
•Step 2 Reading Activities
Decide whether each of them is true or false. F ______ 5. The theme of the nursery rhythm quote in the text is “Killing bad animals.” T ______ 6. In the text, dogs and cats are described as animals that children do not eat. T ______ 7. In the popular book Farm Animals, the animals seem to live a free and happy life. T ______ 8. It is suggested that in children’s stories, we should depict animals as independent beings.
• What do you think of the animals in the video? What are their images?
•Step 2 Reading Activities
•Step 2 Reading Activities
Reading One
Match the words on the right with that on the left.
•Step 2 Reading Activities
What is the author’s attitude towards eating meat? What expressions in the text indicate his attitude? He doesn’t seem to think that eating meat is a wise choice. This can be seen from his disapproval of parents forcing their children to eat meat.
•Step 2 Reading Activities
How are the animals described in the book Farm Animals and The Farm? What kind of false impression does that kind of description leave on children who read them? Animals in these two books are depicted as “happy”, “carefree”, and “good-for-nothing” creatures. This description leaves children the false impression that animals live simple and happy until they dir vocabulary
Paraphrase the following sentences with a special focus on the italicized parts.
parents.
Many children at first refuse to eat animal flesh, and only become accustomed to it after strenuous efforts by their Many children at first refuse to eat animal flesh. They later become used to eating it just because their parents try hard to persuade them to eat it.
because it’s a habit and because other people in our community are doing the same. F ______ 4. In our childhood, the choice between whether to eat meat or to love animals gives us trouble.
Teaching objectives
• You are going to • enlarge the vocabulary in different fields;
• broaden your minds by reading; and • know how to think critically.
Reading One
Check your vocabulary
Paraphrase the following sentences with a special focus on the italicized parts.
There is not one unified attitude to animals, but two conflicting attitudes that coexisted in one individual, carefully segregated so that the inherent contradiction between them rarely causes trouble. There are two different and conflicting attitudes towards animals; they are carefully separated so that the existing and essential contradiction between the two hardly causes trouble.
Unfortunately, non-vegetarian parents will strongly disapprove of their children’s unwillingness to eat meat.
Reading One
•Step 2 Reading Activities
Decide whether each of them is true or false. F ______ 1. Many children want to eat meat because they understand meat is good for health. F ______ 2. When we start eating meat in our childhood, we understand that we are eating the dead body of an animal. T ______ 3. According to the author, we eat meat both
Reading One
Check your vocabulary
Paraphrase the following sentences with a special focus on the italicized parts.