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4.1. Answer the following questions:

1. How do people treat animals?

2. Do they treat them fairly?

3. What do you think of animal rights? Do animals have rights?

4. Is it good to carry out experiments on animals?

5. Do you check whether the cosmetics were tested on animals? Do you buy such products?

6. Do you eat products of animal origin?

7. Do you like fur coats and leather shoes? Should people wear them? 8. If you were invited to participate in “Animal Rights Protest”, would you? Why? Why not?

9. Is it inhumane to keep animals in zoos and cages? Why? Why not?

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4.2. Listen to the song “Like Animals” by Monica Richards and fill in the gaps.

Why do we _______ animals like animals? Animals treat us so very well The _______ way they serve us and protect us When we're _______ they really don't deserve us All we give them is _______ Why do we treat animals like animals? How can people be so _______? What do we do we _______ them we do nothing To protect them we _______ them Don't expect them to _______ Like animals! Why do we treat animals like animals? How can human _______ cause so much pain? We _______ them or we beat them When we're hungry then we eat them, It's _______ how we treat them - it's _______ Like animals!

I do not understand the human _______ That has so little love for _______ with a different face Like animals! We _______ and murder and confine them We create their _______ status Then we _______ it to malign them When you dress in suede or _______ Or some fancy fur or feather Do you stop and wonder whether for a Fad You have killed some _______ or other That you're wearing someone's Brother Or perhaps it's someone's _______ in which you're clad Like animals! We've made the whole world a _______ For Man is an animal too. Like animals!

What examples of mistreatment does she mention?

Is there a play on words in the song? In what meaning is the phrase “Like animals!” used?”

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You are a member of the animal rights movement. Address the government with a list of animal mistreatment. Together with your partner, write this list and then compare it with other lists in your group.

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