I recently asked some of my students these questions: “If you had to steal an animal from a zoo, which one would you steal?” and, “How would you steal it?”
Here are some of the answers they gave me.
1
“I would steal a koala, because they are not aggressive, and would be easy to carry,” said one woman.
“I would enter the zoo carrying a fake baby in a poncho. I would enter the koala enclosure and hide it under the poncho. Then I would simply walk out of the zoo, pretending that my baby was asleep.”
It’s a simple strategy, but it might work.
2
Another female student was more ambitious.
“I would steal a gorilla,” she said.
“I would bribe one of the staff to let me into the gorilla enclosure after the zoo had closed. I would be dressed in a gorilla suit.”
A gorilla suit?
“Yes,” she enthused. “The gorilla would see me and think I was a gorilla too, and follow me out of the zoo.”
This sounds like a risky strategy. What if the gorilla thinks you are cute?
3
“I would steal a chameleon,” said a third student.
“I would carry it out in my handbag. And nobody would notice that it was missing for a long time. All the visitors looking into the place where the chameleon should be would just think that it was very well camouflaged.”
Good point.
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For legal reasons, I would like to say that
I do not encourage anyone to steal animals from a zoo. It is just an exercise designed to stretch
the imagination!
Vocabulary:
an enclosure – an area that is surrounded
by a barrier
to bribe someone – to pay someone money or
give someone a gift to persuade them to do something dishonest or illegal to
help you
to enthuse – to express eager enjoyment or
interest; to speak enthusiastically
to be camouflaged – to be hidden by looking
similar to the surrounding environment
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