Unit four Lesson Two For or Against Keeping Pets

Once I kept a pet. /pet/ But one day, my mother gave it away. Can you guess the reason? The cat was my pet. 宠物

have a debate /dI5beIt / argue  5B:gjU :/ 辩论 The Students in Side B The Students in Side A They are for keeping pets. think people should keep pets. think people shouldn’t keep pets. They are in favour of keeping pets. They are against keeping pets. 争论、争辩

Reasons against keeping pets: People spend too much ________ on __________. They should ______ the money to __________. Pets are ________ and _________________________. Some dogs even _____ people. They are __________. Read the text and fill in the table Reasons for keeping pets: Pets are friendly to people. They can ________________________________________. They can _____________ when we are in danger. Dogs are good for _____________. e.g. Walking a dog is good __________. keep people company when they feel lonely save our lives people’s health exercise moneypets donate the poor dirtynoisy/ make a lot of noise bite dangerous

Translate the following English expressions into Chinese be friendly to keep sb. company feel lonely save our lives in danger walk a dog donate sth. to sb. make a lot of noise 对 … 友好 陪伴某人 感到孤独 就我们的命 处于危险中 遛狗 把某物捐献给某人 发出很多噪音

Listen to the sentences and choose the right picture. Keeping pets costs us a lot of money. Pets are dirty. Pets sometimes make a lot of noise. Pets can save our lives when we are in danger. AB C E F D Walking a dog is good exercise. Pets can keep us company when we feel lonely. BDCAFE

Reasons _______ keeping pets ______________ costs us a lot of money. Keeping pets Pets sometimes ___________________. Pets are ________. dirty make a lot of noise against

Reasons _______ keeping pets for Pets can __________________ when we ________________. Pets can _____________ when we are _________. _________________ is good exercise. save our lives in danger walking a dog keep us company feel lonely

Read the text together Find out the useful expressions when you are giving reasons in the debate. In my opinion,… What’s more,… In addition, …

“Should people keep pets?” Both sides have different opinions. The students in Side A are against keeping pets. 1. Keeping pets is expensive. 2. Pets are dirty. 3. Pets sometimes make a lot of noise. The students in Side B are in favour of keeping pets. 1. Walking a dog is good exercise. 2. Pets can save our lives when we are in danger. 3. The pets can keep people company when they feel lonely. Model: I am against keeping pets. In my opinion, keeping pets is expensive. What’s more, pets are dirty. In addition, pets sometimes make a lot of noise. So we had better not keep pets.

Group work Try to think about more reasons for or against keeping pets with your group members and make a report.

Homework Finish the tasks on WB P69 Write a report on the advantages and disadvantages of keeping pets for at least 50 words.