PetsImprove English Speaking through everyday conversation
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Talking about Pets
Walking to school along with his schoolmate, Deena shah, Vikram discusses the pets they both have.
Deena Do you have a dog?
Vikram We had one, but he died. We all loved him so much that We were sad for months after Tommy died.
Deena how did he die? Was he old?
Vikram He was quite old, abut ten years, but he would have lived yet for another four or five years. Tommy was runover by a speedy car.
Deena If you feel sad, why don’t you keep another dog?
Vikram My mother says that in this town there is a big servant problem. She has to do all the housework herself and she has no time to train a new puppy.
Deena My elder sister sent me a sweet sent me a sweet little puppy from Sikkim.
Vikram What is this breed called?
Deena It is called an ABSO. It has long black hair and is always going to remain main very small.
Vikram Why does it have such long hair, I wonder, if it is such a small dog?
Deena My sister says that it has this thick coat for long cold. Oh you must see this doggy; he is the sweetest little thing in the world. It looks a ball of black wool.
Vikram What have you named it?
Deena We are going to call him Gompu, because we got him from a Gompu, which is a temple in Sikkim.
Vikram Where do you keep little Gompu?
Deena Gompu sleeps in a little basket in my room. He has got a collar too. He is very tiny but he sits up in basket and gives a sharp little bark to wake me up in the morning. He can already do a few tricks.
Vikram Before we came here, my father was posted at Ferozepore. I used to have a pair of white rabbits. This couple had a number of babies. Soon there were so many that we didn’t know where to keep them.
Deena What did you do then?
Vikram I traded them for bajris (coloured birds) with the priest in the church close by.
Deena Oh! How clever of you?
Vikram Now my sister is planning to buy a Siamese kitten.
Deena Cats have a soft, furry coats but they are not as faithful as dogs.
Vikram My sister Reena says that cats are clean and easy to manage.
Deena But they scratch and they mew so softly that they cannot warn you about outsiders coming into the house.
Vikram Oh, but dogs too can be a nuisance and they can bite your visitors which can be very embarrassing.
Deena Don’t you, like dogs any more? You used to have a dog before and you loved him a great deal. What’s happened now?
Vikram I loved Tommy. He was faithful companion. He would give me his paw to hold as a sigh of welcome when I returned from school. He was very brave too, I used to feed him myself every day and mamma used to brush his coat often.
Deena Then why keep a cat now?
Vikram My sister wants a cat. May be we’ll get a dog later. But I ‘am not sure that the dog and the cat will be friends together.
Deena Hum. That might be a problem I’m thinking of getting a bowl to keep goldfish in. What do you think of this idea?
Vikram We’ll discuss it on our way back from school. Here is the school bus.
(B) VOCABULARY
Pussy tail beg
Paw playful trick
Claw whiskers cage
Phrases
Brown eyes with a sad look
A pitiful mew high up in a tree
A bark of welcome long whiskers
Meaning
Coat skin of an animal.
Manage to look, to arrange for.
Paw foot of an animal.
Companion friend.
(C) Study the following responses
1. Cats and dogs can never be friends.
Response : That is not true. If a kitten and a puppy are brought up together, they can be friendly with each other. I have seen a kitten and a puppy eating from the same plate. I don’t think that there is any natural hatred between these two animals.
2. All stray dogs should be shot.
Response : How would you know whether a dog found in the street is a stray or a pet?
3. That is an unfair distinction, sometime, a pet dog may have lost his collar or it might be sick and hence its collar may have been taken off. How could you shoot a dog without first finding out whether or not it belongs to anyone?
(D) Make suitable response
1 . How many breeds of dogs do you know of?
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2. Name the different kinds of animals, birds and beasts which can be kept as pets.
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3. Do you think that one ought to keep a pet? Give reasons.
Response _____________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ ________________________________________________
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4. Tell a story about what a pet dog did for his master.
Response _____________________________________________
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Saturday, May 16, 2009
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