T projects a picture of her cat on the whiteboard. Sts are encouraged to guess whose cat it is and what his name is (they could already know this from the introductory class). T encourages the Sts to talk about their own pets with their partners ('Has your family ever had pets?'). T tells Sts about a trip to China where she encountered mean behavior towards a cat, which made her realize that different cultures have different standards when it comes to pets and animal treatment. T asks Sts to discuss their own experiences with this by asking 'Did you ever have a similar experience, where you were suprised or shocked about the treatment of animals in another country?' T nominates a few Sts to share what they discovered about their partners.

T asks if anybody has ever kept fish as pets and whether they think fish make good pets. T distributes HO1 and writes down difficult vocabulary from the text on WB. T asks Sts to discuss in pairs what they think the text will be about. T checks if Sts have understood the meaning of the new/problematic vocabulary by going through them step by step. T then shows a picture of a koi and asks whether anybody knows what type of fish this is. T shows a picture of Freddy Mercury and ask if anybody knows who this is, and if so, what he could have to do with koi. T projects the gist reading questions on the whiteboard and tells students that they will be given 1 minute to read the text and answer these questions. T reminds students of the concept of gist reading and checks if class knows its meaning.

T checks if students have understood instructions by asking: 'How long can you read the text?' Will you read everything in the text? Will you read it fast?' T times the students when they read the text and cuts them off after 1 minute. They check their answers in pairs, then T nominates students to share their answers with the class. T asks whether the class expected this topic of the text and if somebody found out why T showed a picture of Freddy Mercury before reading.

T shows slide with numbers from excercise 2c. T instructs the Sts to read the text again and find out what it says in the text about the numbers. T instructs Sts that they have 3 minutes to read the text, and that they canno write down any answers yet while reading. After the Sts are finished readin, T instructs the Sts to turn the text and answer the questions individually. After 2 minutes, Sts compare their answers in pairs after which T provides WC feedback.

T asks students if they would like to own some koi, and why or why not. T shows students a picture of a poodle and asks them to write 4 sentences about caring for your pets to such an extent. T asks: 'Do you think it is normal to put so much money and effort into your pets? Would you do it? What do you think it says about the pet's owner?' T nominates a few students to share their opinions with the class.

T asks: 1) What was the topic of today's class? 2) If you think about the story I told in the beginning and the examples of the koi and poodle, what can you now say about cultural differences when having pets?