First, please watch this news video from BBC, then answer the questions below.

　

Listen for vocabulary: 1) According to the reporter, the stray dogs in Sochi are _____, _____, ______, and they are ______. 2) How did the dogs survive in the area before the start of the Olympics? 0:13 3) When Sochi City had planned to kill the stray dogs, what would have been the negative result of this? 0:39      A ___________ was ________. 4) Money support for the dog shelter was totally unexpected - but what expression did the reporter use to say this? 1:17 5) Explain the reason for the billionaire wanting to help with this project. 6) This was described as a 'modern day Russian fairytale' - what is the formula for a Russian fairytale as described at 1:42 The ___________ of the __________, _____________ at the ________  __________ when a ________  _________  ________  __________.

Answers:
1) According to the reporter, the stray dogs in Sochi are cocky, friendly, not-at-all-dangerous, and
they are everywhere.
2) How did the dogs survive in the area before the start of the Olympics? 0:13 They were befriended and fed by the Olympic Games migrant workers.
3) When Sochi City had planned to kill the stray dogs, what would have been the negative result of this? 0:39      A scandal was looming.
4) Money support for the dog shelter was totally unexpected - but what expression did the reporter use to say this? 1:17 It was "out of the blue".
5) Explain the reason for the billionaire wanting to help with this project. The stray dogs reminded him of a stray dog he adopted as a child, which was his close friend.
6) This was described as a 'modern day Russian fairytale' - what is the formula for a Russian fairytale as described at 1:42
The slaughter of the innocents, averted at the last moment when a rich man's heart melted.