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Wednesday, June 01, 2005

The dog on the bus

Here is a story about a bus ride and a dog. Listen to the narrator and check your comprehension against the questions below. Remember you can download the mp3 file to improve your listening - it should fit very easily on an iPod or other mp3 device.




Where was the speaker getting the bus from?
Why didn't he walk?
What kind of bus was it?
What did the dog do when it got on the bus?
What type of dog was it?
What happened when the dog tried to get off the bus?
What did the woman say to the bus driver?
Why did the narrator think that this incident was strange?

6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

·He got the bus from a big supermarket.
·Because it was too far from his house.
·It was a minibus.
·He started to sniffing everybody as saying 'hello!'.
·It was a mango, a dog with any particular pedigree.
·His owner got off the bus and the dog couldn't.
·She said the bus driver should stop the bus because the dog hadn't get off it.
·Because it is not normal for a dog to do that.

9:52 pm

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

- Outside a big supermarket in London.
- It was quite a long way from his house.
- A minibus.
- The dog walked up and down the bus, sniffing everyone as if it was saying "Hello!".
- It was a "mangle", a dog without a defined pedigree.
- The supposed owner of the dog got off the bus and the dog couldn't as the doors shut.
- The woman asked the driver to stop the bus in order to let the dog got off the bus.
- The dog had got off the bus by itself
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5:28 pm

 
Blogger Beo said...

-big supermarket in London.
-Far from the house.
-A minibus.
-Sniffed everybody.
-A mut (mongrel).
-A man stopped the dog, and the driver shut the doors.
-"Let the dog off. That was his or her stop!"
-The dog showed a unique intelligence.

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9:41 pm

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

he got the bus from a big supermarket in london.
it was far from his house.
a minibus
sniffed everybody.
the dog walk up the bus
it was a mango, very friend without pedigree.
the dog´s owner got of the bus, and the dog couldn.t and the door shut.
a woman told the driver to stop in order to let the dog to get off.

yes, because it´s not normal for a dog.

3:35 pm

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

1. a big supermarket in London
2. because it was a long way home
3. a microbus
4. he walked sniffing every body as to say "hello"
5. a Mango
6. the doors closed
7. that the last stop was the dog´s one
8. because the dog had gotten on and off the bus itself

5:12 pm

 
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5:47 am

 

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