Pets at home

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Hello and welcome to Real Easy English from BBC Learning English. I'm Neil.

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And I'm Georgie. In this podcast we have real conversations in

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Hi, Neil. How are things?

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Very good, thank you. How are you, Georgie?

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Yes, I'm pretty good, thank you, as well.

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So, Neil, what are we talking about today?

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We are talking about animals. We'll be talking about pets.

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OK, Neil. So do you have any pets?

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No, I don't have any pets, but I know you do, Georgie.

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Yes, I do. I have a black dog called Rafi.

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— Rafi? — Yeah.

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Did you choose the name?

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Partly, but it was a decision we made as a family.

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Mm. Did you have pets as a child?

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Yes, I did.

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We used to have cats, actually, we started with cats

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and then we got a dog and then we also had hamsters.