C1: The History of Dogs

This C1 level reading activity will challenge your listening comprehension skills.

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Start Time: 2 Minutes and 15 Seconds

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End Time: 1 Minutes and 25 Seconds

Activity 1: Answer the Questions Based on Your Memory

Question 1: When was the epoch of time when dogs did not exist?

Question 2 : When were dogs domesticated by man?

Question 3: What is a wanderer?

Question 4: Why were the wild wolves too afraid to get the bone?

Question 5: Is the relationship between man and dog symbiotic? Why or why not?

Question 6: What jobs did the first domesticated dogs do for humans?

Activity 2: True or False

Question 1: Dogs did not exist 33,000 years ago.

Question 2: The modern day dog is a product of artificial selection

Question 3: All modern day dogs share DNA with gray wolves.

Question 4: Dogs that were unruly and bite the hand that fed them were used as bait to capture wild animals

Question 5: Survival of the fittest was the term dubbed by the narrator to describe the way the dogs thought in order to continue to pass on their genes.

Activity 3: Short Chat about the Topic

Did you learn anything new from the activity?

What did you find most interesting? Why?

Did you like the topic? Why? or Why not?

Do you like dogs? Why or Why not?

Do you know anyone who would like the topic? If so, Who?

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