Are your students cat people or dog lovers? Whether or not they have their own furry friends, pets are everywhere we look, and everyone has an opinion on them.

In this lesson, students will warm up with a pet trivia quiz, before going on to watch a hilarious dog-related anecdote from Mexican actress Salma Hayek when she was a guest on The Graham Norton Show. Students watch the video, analyse the vocabulary, and have plenty of opportunities to discuss their own experiences with pets—or why they prefer to avoid them!

They’ll then work together to complete a speaking task where they have to choose which pets they would adopt, covering tons of useful language for describing dogs and cats’ behaviour.

We think your students will have fun with this lesson plan - ours certainly have!