Shelter dogs' reactions to being adopted: Speaking activity for ESL adult Students.

https://youtu.be/YWGzaqigAo8

1. What is the video about?

2. Who brings in the dogs into the shelter?
3. What does the caretaker do after the dogs are brought in?
4. What are the reactions of the dogs when they are shown the adoption card?
5. After getting the adoption card, are the dogs taken right away to their new
homes?
6. What phrase do they use when a dog has just been adopted and has to wait for one
day until they are picked up? (clue: two words) on hold
7. What does the person do with the video recodings? Why?
8. What word is it used when a dog goes to a permanent home? forever home
9. What kinds of dogs do they take in? puppy mill situations, owner surrenders,
dogs in kill shelters, next in line to be euthanized.
10. What's the worse part of the caretaker's job?
11. How does the takecare feel towards the dogs?
12. Do you think dogs have feelings? why?
13. What do you think they feel when they are left in the shelter not knowing why
they were left there and if their owners would ever come back or not?
14. What do you think are the main reason people leave their dogs in dogs shelters?

Vocabulary:

1. heartwarming
2. going the extra mile (to + inf)
3. consideration
4. heartbreaking
5. devastated
6. forsaken

a. abandoned or deserted.
b. emotionally rewarding or uplifting.
c. (About someone) severe and overwhelmingly shocked or in grief.
d. to make more effort than is expected of you to achieve something.
e. careful thought, typically over a period of time.
f. causing overwhelming distress; very upsetting.