Innes On Bo

Read the following comprehension questions.

1. Who is Bo?

2. Where does Bo live?

3. How much money did Innes pay?

Now listen and write the answers to the questions.

Comprueba

Match the following words from the conversation with the Spanish translation.

1. hunter
2. shoulder
3. mouse
4. pet
5. rascal
6. rabbit
7. wander (verb)
8. rat
9. countryside
10. limp

Comprueba

Listen to the conversation again and try to answer these questions.

1. Where does Bo get his name from?

2. What animals does Bo bring back to the house?

3. How long has Bo lived in Innes’ house?

4. How long did Innes and Bo have to wait to see the vet?

5. Who did Bo attack?

6. What was wrong with Bo?

Comprueba

Listen again and write the missing words in the following trancription. Use the pause button on your media player to give you time to write.

Welcome once again to Mansion Ingles Innes. Erm..you live in the English . Do you have any pets?

Yes Craig, I have erm.. one cat, erm.. called Bo, named after Bo Didley, the jazz singer.

Right… erm.. tell us about Bo, Innes.

Well, Bo is er... a bit of a rascal as.. as it happens…erm… because we live in the countryside, he..he.. does like to in the fields, and he is a bit of a hunter which is…is a bit unfortunate for the local wildlife, because he usually brings them home to us; rabbits, erm mice, a variety of birds…

Dead or alive?

Er.. sometimes dead, er.. but sometimes we have live birds flying around our , which can be rather difficult, but it wakes you up very quickly.

So erm.. how long have you had Bo? How long has Bo lived with you?

Er.. Bo’s been with us..er.. for about three years now, er..we were a bit concerned the other day, actually. He..he came home, and..erm.. he..he . And.. erm..we’d just woken up, and wondered what was wrong with him, he..he..he wouldn’t be picked up, and we thought at one that he’d been hit by a car. Erm.. he had blood on his shoulder and, as I say, had a nasty limp.
We put him into the cat box and took him to the vets.
Erm.. the vet said, ‘Well, we won’t be able to see you for two to three hours.’
I said, ‘Well, I..I think Bo’s been hit by a car. Can we see someone immediately?’
Erm..the veterinaries around and said, ‘Oh, we didn’t realise that the cat had been hit by a car.’ .. and we..we finally went in to see the vet.
Erm.. the cat then came out of the box, attacked the vet, and the… it didn’t..

So what was wrong with the cat? Why did the cat the vet?

Well, absolutely nothing, I think it just wanted some affection that morning and…and he’s learnt that if he , everybody runs around after him.

And the blood?

Oh, I don’t know. I think it was probably a dead rat or something.
But it was all very..all very , and.. and the vets erm.. threw us out and said, ‘There’s nothing wrong with your cat at all’

Did they charge you?

Unfortunately, yes.

How much?

Erm.. Thirty pounds.

Oh Dear!

Oh dear indeed!

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