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Imagine you are a voluntary worker at the SPCA during weekends.
You have been asked to make a poster appealing to people to consider household pets during the festive seasons.
You are asked to focus on:
The effect of fireworks on domestic pets
OR
The plight of animals that are abandoned by irresponsible owners.
When your educator has evaluated your posters, the class will choose some of the best ones and take them to your local SPCA branch. Ask the SPCA to put them on public display.
Use the CHECKLIST below to make sure you have designed a really good poster.
The POSTER will be evaluated according to the grid below:
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| Striking | Good | Ordinary | Dull |
Do some planning on the space provided on the next page, using the checklist as a guide:
Reading is a learning experience.
The more we read, the more we know! The more we know, the more we grow!
The next passage tells the true story of an elephant that did not forget.
Read it carefully on your own.
THE MYSTERY OF THE RUDE ELEPHANT
1. Jack, the elephant keeper at Flamingo Park Zoo in Yorkshire, England, was concerned about Ellie. She was his favourite Indian elephant, well-mannered and lovable. Yet lately, whenever he turned his back on her, she would blare rudely through her trunk behind him. It was quite unlike Ellie to behave so badly. Jack decided it was time to call the zoo vet.
2. The zoo elephants had always been among Dr Taylor’s favourite patients. But Ellie in particular, had always been something special. On the first day they met, she rooted around his pockets with her trunk tip until she found a strip of chewing gum. She ate it with the paper on, purring like a giant cat.
3. On hearing about her strange behaviour, Dr Taylor immediately went to examine Ellie. She looked at him with moist, grey eyes and flapped her ears.
4. “Praaa,” went her trunk. “Praaa, praaa, praaa!” The loud noise blared every time she exhaled.
5. “I wonder whether some food or a coin is stuck up her nose?” he suggested to Jack. “I’ve never had a case, but I suppose it could happen.”
6. Dr Taylor decided to wait a few days to see how things went. The very next day, however, Jack arrived at the surgery. He was most upset.
7. “Ellie’s nose is bleeding - the blood is trickling down the left side of her trunk!” he reported.
8. The vet rushed to the elephant house. Drops of blood were falling from Ellie’s trunk tip. Could it be an ulcer? Or a tumour? Something would have to be done.
9. “Don’t give her any food today,” he told Jack. “She can drink water until early evening, but no water after that.” Then he phoned a surgical-instrument manufacturer and asked to borrow a flexible endoscope. This instrument is often used for looking into human colons to detect cancers. It has its own light source and would be ideal for peering up inside Ellie’s one-and-a half metre trunk.
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