Multimedia Task
1. Read the statements and tick the ones you think are true. Give reasons.
A good secret agent:
- Must be an excellent driver
- Doesn't have to be glamorous
- Can swim underwater for extended periods
- Mustn't tell enayone what his/her job is
- Needs to be extremely courageous
- Can carry a gun at all times
- Ought to be an expert dancer
2. Look at the photos and discuss the questions.
- How do we use the animals to help us?
- What other animals do we use? How?
- Could animals be used as secret agenda? How?
3. Read the article. What can animals do, according to the article?
4. Look at the underlined verb forms in Exercise 1 and in the article, and write them in the correct places in the chart.
5. Discuss which three answers are possible in the sentence. How the sentences. How does the meaning change?
1. I _____ do that now. I'll do it tomorrow.
a. Needn't
b. Can't
c. might
d. don't need to
2. You _____ borrow my car because you don't have a license.
a. won't be able to
b. don't have to
c. mustn't
d. can't
3.He _____ speak English until we came to London.
a. didn't need to
b. couldn't
c. wasn't able to
d. need to
4. You _____ arrive on time next Monday or you'll get the sack
a. must
b. will have to
c. can't
d. need to
5. There _____ be life on other planets
a. can
b. might
c. could
d. might not
6. If we finish work early tonight, we _____ go for a meal
a. could
b. can't
c. might
d. can
WORK IT OUT
6. Compare theses sentences with their equivalents in the article. Then put the underlined phrases in the correct places in the chart in exercise 4.
1. They are supposed to be free (para.D)
2. They are obliged to run around a specified area (para C)
3. Ordinary people can't treat animals badly but scientist are permited to. (para D)
4. He managed to return on foot two days later. (para B)
5. They are bound to get better at it in future. (para C)
6. They were so important that UK citizens were forbidden to shoot them. (para B)
7. Another pigeon was required to wear a camera around its ned (para B)
8. The Navy is likely to start using other marine animals for this work (Para A)
7. Look at the cartoon and discuss the questions. Share your ideas with the class. (Comment on the blog)
- What is ironic about the cartoon?
- Do you think it's cruel to train and experiment on animals? Why? Why not?
The thing that is ironic about the cartoon is that usually scientifics experiment with animals, and in that image is the animal who is experimenting with the human. So then the human can feel what the animal was feeling when it was being experimented. I think that that it's cruel to experiment with animals because they have feelings, they can feel pain. For example if someone is experimenting with you would you like it?
ResponderEliminarThe cartoon is ironic because there is a change of roles, and in my opinion it's intention is to make us see how the animals suffer because of our experiments, I think is very cruel and a little bit illogical, because if we want to progress, and we experiment in order to de humanity's development; every time we experiment with animals we become more stupid.Is our work(humanity) to protect our planet mates like the Earth colonizers that we are.
ResponderEliminar1. The cartoon is ironic because its showing the mouse cleverer than the human and is showing that the mouse is manipulating the human as he has been treated, always as a cientific experiment.
ResponderEliminar2. I find it cruel because they are living creatures and they can become extinct if cientist keep using them to prove their experiments, but also its a way to prevent us of getting some illnes but i think products should be proved on different things not on animals
I think it is very ironic because humans abuse so much of animals for scientific experiments because they doesn´t have way to express their pain.
ResponderEliminarI think is very very cruel because they also have feelings and they doesn´t have to support pain for us...
1.I think that it is ironic because it supposed to be the person who is experimenting with the rat,but actually in the cartoon they are trying to show us how it feels to be just an experiment.
ResponderEliminar2.I think that is too cruel to experiment with animals but in one side it is necessary because if we didin't try with something we're never going to know what would happend,thanks of experiments we have a lot of technology and the cure of a lot of illnesses.
What is ironic in the cartoon is that the animal is who is experimenting with the human, and in this case the human is who is suffering not the animal.
ResponderEliminarI think that do experiments with animal is one of the most cruel things, because animals are living and they feel too, they feel the same pain and they can´t speak but they are like humans, and I think that experiment with an animal is like experiment with a little human is the same cruel act.
Isabella Camacho.
The picture is ironic because is a change of roles among the human and the animal, in this picture the animal experiments with the human; i really like this picture.
ResponderEliminarIn my opinion is a cruel activity but necessary because humans need someone or something for experiments and look what happen, look the results.
I think using animals for experiments is good until a certain limit, because animals feel too.
The ironic aspect about this pic is that the person who should have been in the test tube is not the doctor but the mouse. if you see, it is normal that scientifics experiment with animals, not the opposite. To conclude, this pic tries to show us how humans could feel if they were in the mouse role.
ResponderEliminar1) It´s ironic because in real life scientist use animals like rats or chimpanzees for experiments that help people but before that a lot of animals die in a laboratory.
ResponderEliminar2)Yes, because If you use animals for that reason they can't have a normal life. They need to be free and share with another animals. They have feelings too, they feel the pain when a experiment is not what they expected. in conlusion, for me is unfair do that to them.
All that we see is that the people do experiments with the animals, but the animals don't do experiments whith the people and this is ironic. Yes it's very cruel because the people do experiments with hepless animals, they doping the animals and do thet they want, but didn't think if that is correct or is good, they don't think about the demage thet could cause in the animals, the science needs to advance, but it isn't a good form.
ResponderEliminarall the situation in general is really ironic 'cause it couldn't be possible that a rat has a test tube neither a person who is on it, that it's really ironic. also we can se that the person is alive but is in the water that's another ironic situation.
ResponderEliminaractually yes , i think so but in some cases those experiments help us in order to find lot of cures and another things.
The ironic in this picture is because, normaly the human do experiments with the animals, and in this picture we can see that is the animal who is doing an experiment. I know that is cruel to do experiments with the animals, and that's unfair for they, but the human is a curious specie, and wants to serch and discover new things, and go to the extremes, in this case using the animals. Normaly all the people will say that is bad to do this and yes is bad, but this experiments can be very good if are with good intencions, like build a cure or see how we can fix a problem or something, but is bad if we use the anumals just with selfish intencions, and not for build a better world
ResponderEliminar1. the picture is very ironic but i think that the animal is just to try to say to the human how it feels to be an experiment
ResponderEliminar2. well first of all , I think that it's terrible, because they are alive and they doesn't damage for us, but in another way i think that if we don't do the experiments we dont't know about the things that we could know.
This picture is simply ironic because we (the humans) are who use the animals as lab rats. The picture want to show us only a coincidence with reality although this time the roles have changed. Don´t forget that animals feel like us. AVOID THAT ITS KEEPS HAPPENING!!!
ResponderEliminarIs ironic that the rat is making an experiment with a human, because in the real world are the humans the ones that use animals for different experiments to avoid the bad consequences it would produce in humans life.
ResponderEliminari think it´s cruel to experiment on animals, because the mayor part of this animals die beecause of the chemicals or products tha scientists apply thmen. This activity must be prohibited.
Ues, because the mouse is looking a man, and it represents like when we use the animals, the picture means the revenge for the mouse to the man.
ResponderEliminarYes, it'r cruel, because they are a part of the environment, and it's bad to the enviroment, I think it.
yes is ironic because the people is who use the mice for experiments, yes it is becouse the people most of times hurt them, and they couldn't do anything to save theirself
ResponderEliminaris ironic that the animals can experimet with we. People suppose that we manipulate the animals, but if we don't worry for they, someday can be attack for they. I don't agree do experiments wiht the animals because they can be suffer.
ResponderEliminarWe must invent a way where they do not suffer, and we get out benefit and achieve our goal. LUISA RIVERA
That the humas experiment the majotity of time with rats and think that they don´t feel pain because they are animals.
ResponderEliminarI think it´s good to train animals beacuse we can prove that some medicines are not a risk for the society or safe some lives searching landmines or bombs or drugs in the airports. But i think if the cientist hurt them it´cruel, itps goof train them with love .
the ironic part was thtat the humans esperiment more with animals especial the rats .
ResponderEliminari think that isnt bad to train with rats because is nesesari to have more new thigs in tecnology