Millionaire’s Last Hunt (Advanced Lesson)

ESL/EFL Level: C1/C2 (Advanced)
Lesson Topics: hunting, animal rights
Skill Focus: Listening, Speaking, Vocabulary
Approximate Class Time: 1.5 hours
Lesson Plan Download: buffalo-kills-millionaire-hunter-advanced-082025.docx

  • The lesson begins with warm-up questions about hunting and millionaires.
  • Next, students complete a vocabulary matching exercise featuring 11 vocabulary items from an upcoming video about a hunting incident in South Africa.
  • As an input, the lesson features a short 1:42-minute YouTube video about a millionaire American hunter who was gored to death by a buffalo in South Africa.  (The video is not graphic in any way.) The video introduces the hunter's perspective that big game hunting is necessary to preserve wildlife populations.
  • The video is followed by comprehension questions.
  • Next, students form discussion questions with the target vocabulary. 
  • The first speaking activity is a roleplay with three roles (one optional). It pits a hunting enthusiast against an animal rights activist. They each must present their arguments for and against big-game hunting tourism in South Africa.
  • To reinforce the lesson's vocabulary, students then create a story using three cartoon images. The images depict an airplane crashing into the African savannah, a passenger being attacked by a lion, and then months later, the same passenger emerging from the forest alive.
  • As the lesson draws to a close, students review the lesson's vocabulary, discuss famous quotations, and then match collocations used in the video.
  • The lesson closes with some final discussion questions and a meme (intending to be humorous) about hunting.

An African buffalo chases a hunter

ADVANCED (C1/C2) Lesson on Hunting

Warm-up    

  1. Have you ever gone hunting or fishing? Why or why not?
  2. Are there some animals that you think should not be hunted by humans? If so, which?
  3. Why do people dislike millionaires?

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Comprehension Question Answer Key

  1. ….
  2. They are feared as one of Africa’s most dangerous animals, nicknamed the “Black Death,” and responsible for hundreds of deaths each year.
  3. Watkins believed hunting was a vital part of preserving wildlife and conservation efforts.
  4. To show his long history and enthusiasm for trophy hunting, which may make viewers see him as excessive or critical rather than sympathetic.
  5. Mixed portrayal: highlights his success and conservation views, but also his luxury lifestyle and trophy kills, which can create a negative impression.

Vocabulary: 1-agitated, 2-herd, 3-keen, 4-big game, 5-caught off guard, 6-dubbed, 7-stalking, 8-ambushed, 9-fatally, 10-unwounded, 11-gored

Collocations: 1-d, 2-b, 3-a, 4-f, 5-c, 6-e, 7-g

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