HOMEWORK
TEXT
MORE THAN A BEST FRIEND
Recently psychologists have begun to study human-animal relationship for
evidence of what we instinctively know: pets are good for us.
It has been found that coronary patients with pets may survive longer than
those without. Pets have also been used as therapy for children with emotional
or physical disorders. They give them a focus of attention drawing them out of
private, perhaps painful thoughts.
Pets means laughter, play and comfort. Indeed, who can carry the worry of the
world on hin shoulders while a puppy is untying the shoes on his feet?
VOCABULARY
Instinctively – instintivamente
Coronary – coronário
To draw out – desviar
Indeed – de fato
To untie - desamarrar
EXERCISES
A – Mark the correct statements. The, copy them rewriting the text.
1 – Coronary patients may survive longer then other patients.
2 – People instinctively know that pets are good for our health.
3 – The patients give the pets a focus of attention.
4 – Patients with coronary problems may survive longer with pets than without
them.
5 – Pets are also good for children with physical or emotional disorders.
6 – Psychologists have begun to study the relantionship among pets.
7 – Pets make people forget their private thoughts.
8 – A pet means laughtes, play and comfort.
B – Answer the questions:
1 – What have psychologists begun to study?
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2 – What do people instinctively know?
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3 – What’s the influence os pets on coronary patients? And on children?
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4 – What do pets give people?
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5 – What do pets mean?
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C – Choose in the text words related do:
1 – psicologia -
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2 – animais -
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3 – corpo humano -
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4 – alegria -
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D – Give synonyms:
1 – disease -
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2 – to signify -
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3 – a young dog -
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