Make Your Way 5, Schulbuch mit Audio-CD und CD-ROM

Working with words 14 Write down a list of reasons why people might not like cats. Then read the poem. How many of your ideas does it contain? 15 Write your own poem called “The Dogs’ Protection League”. • Find words in the poem which mean: • 1 speak in a threatening way 2 what you owe 3 a male cat 4 cry (like a cat) 5 destroy 6 area of grass in a garden 7 sunrise 8 definitely Think of two adjectives to write in front of these nouns. Make one of your combinations a little unusual. • Explain your combinations to your partner. • Examples: cruel hunter, elegant hunter The hunter is cruel because he takes the life of an innocent animal for pleasure. The hunter is elegant because he moves so silently and quickly to catch his prey. hunter death killer embrace Midnight. A knock at the door. Open it? Better had. Three heavy cats, mean and bad. They offer protection. I ask, ‘What for?’ The boss-cat snarls, ‘You know the score. Listen man and listen good If you wanna stay in the neighbourhood, Pay your dues or the toms will call And wail each night on the backyard wall. Mangle the flowers, and as for the lawn A smelly minefield awaits you at dawn.’ These guys meant business without a doubt Three cans of tuna, I handed them out. They then disappeared like bats into hell Those bad, bad cats from the CPL. Roger McGough The Cats’ Protection League mean: fies, gemein to know the score: die Spielregeln kennen smelly: stinkend to mean business: es ernst meinen a can of tuna: eine Dose Thunfisch 116 Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv