Do giraffes with longer necks get more sex?

Advanced lesson plan (B2 and above): Do giraffes with longer necks get more sex? - BUY ME A COFFEE if you like my FREE ESL content

These megaherbivores look like gentle giants, but when it comes to competing for mates they are formidable warriors. Male giraffes swing their sledgehammer-like heads into their rivals' bodies until a victor emerges. Some zoologists have even argued their noodle necks evolved not to help them reach high-up vegetation but to give them a competitive advantage in these brutal battles.

In this B2+ worksheet, students will 

• Watch a giraffe fight and give a blow-by-blow account
• Match goofy pictures of giraffes to four phrasal verbs (to stand by, to stand for, to stand up to, to stand out)
• Practise forming tag questions using giraffe trivia
• Learn six neck-related idioms
• See three pun-ny jokes about giraffes
• Read an article summarising the controversy over how giraffes evolved their long necks

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Lesson objectives:

1) To match four phrasal verbs based on "STAND" to goofy pictures of giraffes (to stand up to, to stand for, to stand by, to stand out).

2) To practise forming tag questions using giraffe trivia.

3) To understand nuance and puns with three giraffe-related jokes.

4) To give a blow-by-blow account of a giraffe fight, using a clip from a BBC documentary.

5) To expand the students' repertoire of idioms, matching six neck-related idioms/phrasal verbs with their definitions. 

6) To improve reading comprehension by studying a short article about a controversy in zoology over whether giraffes with longer necks get more sex.