Friday, September 30, 2016

Life Upper Intermediate: 1A Unlikely Friends p.10-11

(Supplementary Material for Specific Textbooks--Life Upper Intermediate)


Lead-in (docs, pub) questions taken from here
Transcript (docs, pub)

Can you describe one of your closest friends?

Do you have any childhood friendships that are still strong today? Tell us about them.

Do you have any long distance friends?
How do you keep in touch with your long-distance friends?
How often do you see your long-distance friends?

Do you think it is a good idea to borrow money from a friend? Why or why not?

Do you make friends easily?

Has a friend ever let you down?

Have you made any friends over the Internet?
How often do you write to them?
Have you ever met them in person?

How are your friendships different now than they were when you were a child?

How do you maintain a good friendship?

How do you make new friends?

How many people do you consider your "best friends?"

Is it common to have friendships across generations?
What are the advantages and disadvantages of these types of friendships.
Do you have any friends from a different generation than you?

There is a saying "To have a good friend, you need to be a good friend."  How can you be a good friend?

What do you usually do with your friends?

What factors may result in the breakdown of a good friendship?

What is a best friend?

What is the longest friendship that you have had?

What makes friends different from family?


associate

avoid

attributes

bond

curiosity

generous

hound

rare

species

striking
very unusual

a close connection joining two or more people

a group of plants or animals that share similar characteristics

someone who is always giving things to others

any of several types of dog used for hunting

qualities or characteristics that someone or something has

to relate two things, people, etc in your mind

easily noticed

to stay away from something

the feeling of wanting to know or learn about something

It’s known that animals often co-operate in their own social groups, helping each other to hunt or raise their young. Some highly intelligent animals, like elephants, go even further than this, and help other animals who are not in their own family group.  But co-operation between animals of different (1)______________ is unusual, so that’s why the story of Suriya, the orang-utan, has attracted a lot of interest.

Suriya lives with his keepers at The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, which is a kind of sanctuary for (2)______________ animals.  Recently this orang-utan has made an unlikely friend in a local (3)______________ dog. Now most dogs (4)______________ apes, because they are scared of them basically, but these two have formed a strong (5)______________ .  Each day the dog comes into the compound and searches out Suriya.

When he finds him, they carry on like long lost friends, wrestling and hugging and playing together.  They’ve been doing this every day since they first met and their friendship has attracted the (6)______________ of millions of viewers on the National Geographic Channel.  The founder of the institute, Dr Antle, explains: “It’s clear they’re having the time of their life. What is more (7)______________ is that Suriya has also understood that the hound dog is very hungry and so he regularly shares his monkey biscuits with him. Orang-utans are very (8)______________ creatures.  If you give one a piece of candy, often they will break it in half and hand one piece back to you.”

So how does he explain the fact that their relationship has a lot of the characteristics of what we call “friendship”? Antle says that the two animals are fulfilling a basic social need in each other that perhaps we don’t normally (9)______________ with animals.  “It’s a relationship with (10)______________ of fun and interaction that they are not getting from anyone else.”
Answers:

It’s known that animals often co-operate in their own social groups, helping each other to hunt or raise their young. Some highly intelligent animals, like elephants, go even further than this, and help other animals who are not in their own family group.  But co-operation between animals of different (1)species is unusual, so that’s why the story of Suriya, the orang-utan, has attracted a lot of interest.

Suriya lives with his keepers at The Institute of Greatly Endangered and Rare Species in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, which is a kind of sanctuary for (2)rare animals.  Recently this orang-utan has made an unlikely friend in a local (3)hound dog. Now most dogs (4)avoid apes, because they are scared of them basically, but these two have formed a strong (5)bond.  Each day the dog comes into the compound and searches out Suriya.

When he finds him, they carry on like long lost friends, wrestling and hugging and playing together.  They’ve been doing this every day since they first met and their friendship has attracted the (6)curiosity of millions of viewers on the National Geographic Channel.  The founder of the institute, Dr Antle, explains: “It’s clear they’re having the time of their life. What is more (7)striking is that Suriya has also understood that the hound dog is very hungry and so he regularly shares his monkey biscuits with him. Orang-utans are very (8)generous creatures.  If you give one a piece of candy, often they will break it in half and hand one piece back to you.”

So how does he explain the fact that their relationship has a lot of the characteristics of what we call “friendship”? Antle says that the two animals are fulfilling a basic social need in each other that perhaps we don’t normally (9)associate with animals.  “It’s a relationship with (10)attributes of fun and interaction that they are not getting from anyone else.”



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