Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

Procedure
1 Divide the class into three teams and allocate one of the following
working dogs to each team:
Animals
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Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners
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• A police dog
• A guide dog (for blind people)
• A farm dog
If other dogs are used in the local community, these could be substituted
for any of the above.
2 Either in small groups or in pairs, students discuss why their life is better
than the life of the other two dogs. Some suggestions are in Box 21.
Encourage the children to use the sentence stems from Box 21.
3 Each team has an opportunity to present their arguments to the class. At
the end, they decide which dog has a better life.