Você gosta dos animais de estimação e está aprendendo inglês? Essa atividade de inglês é pra você!

Nossa professora de inglês Malena Giordano adora os animais de estimação e criou essa atividade de inglês para os estudantes de inglês que são amantes dos animais.

Primeiro, você deve responder as perguntas abaixo como se estivesse sendo entrevistado por alguém. Se quiser que suas repostas sejam corrigidas, é só gravá-las usando o site VOCAROO (clique aqui para acessá-lo). Ao terminar de gravar aparecerá a opção de compartilhar o seu áudio. Copie o link e cole-o nos comentários. Nós te enviaremos as observações!

Depois, deverá ler um pequeno artigo e responder umas perguntas sobre o mesmo.

American veterinarians helping animals abroad

• Do you have a pet?
• What is its name? How did you choose this name?
• What is the best pet to own?
• Are there animal rights groups where you live?
• Are there laws about hunting in your country?
• What do you think would animals say about humans if they could make a documentary movie about humans?
• Do you think it is a good pattern in general to judge people by their attitude toward animals? Explain why.

-Read the following article.

What if you could travel to exotic locations and help save animals' lives -- on the same trip?

Portland veterinarians have done so for years. Joi Sutton of Moreland Veterinary Hospital founded Veterinary Ventures, which sends teams of vets to developing countries. Gabriella Flacke of Murrayhill Veterinary Hospital just returned from a trip to Bolivia for Humane Society International and has volunteered in Latin America for years.

And with guidance from an organization founded in the Pacific Northwest, you, too, dear amateur animal lover, can travel to interesting places and help the local domestic critters in a meaningful way.

World Vets, a nonprofit group that a Washington veterinarian started in 2006, organizes veterinary aid missions all over the world. On each trip, two to three slots are open to participants lacking any veterinary experience whatsoever.

Most of World Vets' destinations are in Central America. Trips typically last one week; farther destinations eat up too much travel time, leaving less time for the work at hand.

And work trips they are. Sure, a couple of days are reserved for R&R -- after all, who wants to pay just over $1,000 plus airfare only to come home exhausted? -- but the emphasis is on volunteering, not tourism.

-Answer these questions (choose the best answer):

1. How many places are open to non-veterinarians on each veterinary aid mission

 -10

 -2 or 3

 -1

2. What's the destination for most of the aid missions?

 -Central America

 -Bolivia

 -The American Pacific Northwest

3. Why does the organization want to avoid places that are farther away?

 -Because they are too dangerous

 -Because it wants to minimize travel time

 -Because they don't have agreements with local animal rights organizations

4. What's a humorous, colloquial synonym for "animals" used in this article?

 -critters

 -beasts

 -creatures

5. What's the main purpose of the World Vets aid missions?

 -Tourism

 -Making a lot of money in a short period of time

 -Helping animals

I hope you have enjoyed reading this article!

See you next time!

Malena Giordano
www.elearningforall.org

(answers: 1 - b / 2 - a / 3 - b / 4 - a / 5 - c)