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LearnEnglish Elementary Podcast Magazine No. 05
Section 5 - Your turn
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Section 5 is based on 'Your Turn'. It helps you to listen and understand people giving their opinions.
Suggestion: Look at the phrases that the people use. Sometimes they don't use complete sentences. Write down notes and then say what you think.
In ‘Your Turn’ you heard 5 people answer this question: Which do you prefer – cats or dogs? What do you think?
Here are some things that people mentioned.
• Dogs really love you
• Cats only care about food
• Cats are easy to look after
• You have to take dogs for walks – and clean up their poo!
• Cats are more intelligent than dogs
• Cats are boring
• Dogs are more fun to play with
• It’s cruel to keep a dog in the city
• Dogs and cats are a problem when you want to go on holiday
Which ones do you agree with? Which do you prefer – cats or dogs? Go to the bottom of the page to write your text.
Transcript
Tess: Now, for Your Turn this time, since I’ve got a new cat, we decided to ask people a very important question – “Which do you prefer - cats or dogs?” It’s a very simple question but people have very strong opinions. Let’s hear what they said.
Voice 1: Dogs. Definitely. Why? Look – if you’ve got a dog it really loves you. All cats care about is who feeds them. You can think a cat loves you but if someone else gives it food it’ll be gone.
Voice 2: Well, I’ve got two cats so I think you know what my answer will be. But cats are just so much easier to look after. With dogs you’ve got to take them for walks all the time and all of that and you have to clean up their poo – yeuch.
Voice 3: That’s easy. Dogs are noisy, smelly and stupid; cats are much more intelligent. If you’re sitting on your sofa, right, it’s lovely when a cat comes and sits on you and purrs. Would you want a big daft dog to come and sit on you?
Voice 4: Cats are just so boring. All they do is sit around and sleep all day. They’re selfish, basically. Dogs play with you and stuff. They’re fun, you know.
Voice 5: Well, to be honest, I’m not really an animal lover. I think it’s cruel to keep dogs in the city – they should be in the country. Cats make me sneeze and they’re a real problem if you want to go on holiday. If I had to have a pet I’d probably have a goldfish.
Ravi: Interesting. What about you Tess? Why do you prefer cats?
Tess: I just do. Cats are so much more intelligent than dogs, I think. I like dogs too but, you know, like the last person said, I think it’s a bit cruel to keep a dog in a small flat like mine.
Ravi: OK. What about you listeners? Cats or dogs – which do you prefer?
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At 12 Mar 2010 12:05 consuelo cuartero ortega wrote:
I like both of two,but I live in a not big flat so I wouldn´t like to have neither of two. Dogs need go out early in the morning every day, and cats usually spoil your sofa or other fornitures in your house to sharpen theirs claws. If I had a house with garden, I´d probably have a cat or a dog, but in a flat I prefer have got a goldfish.
At 11 Nov 2009 11:31 Dmitriy Pashnin wrote:
I think there some advanteges at dogs and some at cats. Cats don't need much care as dogs, but they are lazy and always sleep, though you don't need to go with you cat for a walk. As for me, I have a cat, so like them more than dogs.
At 17 Jul 2009 20:55 ouseem wrote:
I am not really an animal person so I prefer birds.
At 31 May 2009 14:42 Michael wrote:
I think i will prefere dogs.Cats just care about food and sleeping, not as active as a dog.For me,taking a dog for a walk is so fun.I hate cats because it will scratch the curtains and as lazy as a pig!Dogs are better than a cat because it will care about our house and so on!So people say DOGS ARE MENS BEST FRIENDS.