介绍:
Dialogue 1
Todd: Matt, I&`&m going to ask you some questions about pet. (OK!) First question, do you have a pet?
Matt: Yes, in fact, my mom&`&s house we have three, three pets; two dogs and a cat. My family actually raises dogs for helping blind people.
Todd: Oh, really!
Matt: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Todd: Wow, like how do they train the dogs?
Matt: How do they train the dogs? Well, I mean, it&`&s a long process, right...
we get them when they&`&re puppies.....and so we train them basic...you know, sit, come... really basic things...then,after they&`&re about two year old, they go a different training school.
Todd: Oh, wow , that&`&s great!
Matt: Yeah, yeah!
Todd: Well, how many dogs do they train at a time?
Matt: Oh, just one! We have our own dog, and then we have a dog that we are training.
Todd: Oh, OK.
Matt: Yeah, just one dog at a time.
Todd: Do you ever see the dogs you trained, like out on the street, or anything?
Matt: Sometimes we&`&ll see them, they&`&ll have like sort of conventions of reunions of the pets so,yeah, you get to see them once in a while.
Todd: Oh, wow, that&`&s cool. Um, why do people keep pets?
Matt: I guess the most important thing is companionship, right! So there is always somebody there for you that will like you no matter what.
Todd: Yeah, that&`&s true. OK, besides cats, dogs, and fish, what are some other pets people keep?
Matt: Well, I guess if you are Sigfreid and Roy you can keep a tiger or lion. I guess all types of things don&`&t they.
Todd: Yeah.
Matt: I mean, my friend has a snake....I don&`&t know if you mention that: snake and ferrets and insects, spiders...
Todd: OK.
Matt: All kinds of things.
Todd: All right, yeah, like there is so many. What are some costs associated with keeping a pet?
Matt: Food is probably the biggest cost, but also if you keep the dog, particularly a dog in your house, when they are puppies, and we have a lot of puppies， they&`&ll chew up everything they can so we&`&re constantly replacing shoes and, you know, cleaning up pee from the carpet and things like that..so.. it can be a hassle.
Dialogue 2
Todd: So, we thought we would talk about the neighborhood, and the first topic would be the stray cats.
Katia: Which are also are neighbors.
Todd: Right. First of all, how many stray cats do you think there are in the neighborhood?
Katia: At least at night, you see them all together, especially in one corner, and I see at least about six cats, at least, all together.
Fred: I would say much more than that.
Todd: Yeah, I would too actually. How many do you think?
Fred: I would go for maybe twenty of those around the neighborhood.
Katia: But this is just one corner.
Fred: OK, just one corner, so multiplied by four or five corners, yeah, twenty, twenty-five cats.
Todd: OK, so then, what do you guys think about the cats? Like should something be done about the cats? Should the people feed the cats?
Katia: I think especially for a lot of the elderly people that live here, I think for them it&`&s very nice to have the cats around and they feed them and I think as long as they don&`&t go into the trash, I think it&`&s OK, but for me, I haven&`&t seen any trash, and I don&`&t think it would be a problem.
Todd: Well, you know, they break into my house. I don&`&t know if they break into yours, but they&`&re amazing. If I don&`&t lock the windows, the sliding glass doors they pull the door open with their paw and they come in and they look through my trash and then they leave.
Fred: Those are very clever cats.
Todd: Yeah, I thought it was a raccoon. I thought I had a raccoon, and I went to talk to my landlady, and she&`&s like, "No, that&`&s just the cats."
Katia: I think you were just not feeding them.
Todd: Well, yeah, I guess that&`&s it
