How animals help humans
1. Discuss the questions.
• Are you an animal lover?
• Are you scared of any animals?
• Have you had any pets in your life? What can they teach us?
• Are you more of a dog person or a cat person?
• In what ways do animals help people?
2. In a moment, you will watch a short video. Look at the photos below
connected with the video. What do you think the video will be about?
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How animals help humans
3. Match the words and the phrases to their definitions below.
combat equine heal herd
PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) veteran
a) mental health condition that is triggered by a terrifying event
b) a large group of animals of the same type that live and move about together
c) someone who has been in the armed forces during a war
d) become well again, especially after an injury
e) related to horses
f) a fight, especially during a war
4. Watch the video [https://youtu.be/ZRhrS2MN6oM] and answer the question
below.
• What does equine therapy for veterans involve?
5. Watch the video again and answer the questions.
a) How many times more sensitive are horses than people?
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b) What can veterans learn thanks to equine therapy?
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c) How many veterans have come through the program?
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d) What’s the minimum number of sessions in the equine therapy program?
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e) What happens to a horse which is isolated from its herd?
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6. Match the halves to create phrases.
a) suffer 1) approach
b) success 2) tendency to do something
c) holistic 3) apart
d) devastating 4) rate
e) tear someone 5) trauma
f) have a 6) effect
7. Choose three phrases from the previous exercise and write sentences with
them.
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8. Discuss the statements below. Do you agree or disagree with them? Why?
Use the words and phrases from the box.
combat equine heal herd PTSD veteran
suffer trauma success rate holistic approach devastating effect
tear someone apart have a tendency to do something
• All veterans should be sent for equine therapy when they return from war
missions.
• If equine therapy works for veterans suffering trauma, it should be funded by
the government.
• Governments don’t help their soldiers enough to re-enter society after they
finish their military service.
• Animal-assisted therapies should be prescribed by doctors for various medical
conditions.
• Animals provide companionship and give people emotional support that may
be more beneficial than support from people.
• We should focus more on a holistic approach to healing than just on
medication.
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