[Topic] How do pets navigate?

Which animal do you think makes the best pet?

Usually students tell me that dogs or cats are the best. What about a raccoon? How strange is that? Animals that are unusual to have as a pet are called "exotic pets".

Exotic pet: a rare or unusual animal pet, or an animal kept as a pet which is not commonly thought of as a pet.

Many pet stores will put animals besides cats, dogs, small birds or fish as "exotic".

Types of exotic pets:

• Raccoons

• Hedgehogs

• Ferrets

• Lizards

• Chinchilla

• Foxes

Which one do you think is the most exotic? → I think the fox is the most exotic!

Now, for the listening practice.

Listen to the BBC Talk on How do pets navigate?

1. What is the talk about?

2. Are you a cat person or dog person? What type of "person" are you?

3. How do pets navigate?

4. When a cat gets lost, it moves around in bigger and bigger circles, until it finds a clue. Why do they do that? What is the "clue" to them?

5. How long is Omar, believed to be the world's longest cat?

6. What does 'scratch your head' mean? Do you ever "scratch your head"?

7. What words are new to you? Make your own sentence.

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