Intro
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It’s hard to imagine anything more adorable than a puppy. They’re soft, playful, cuddly, and sweet. From their little black noses to their over-sized paws, and from their big brown eyes to their joyfully wagging tails, they might just be the cutest creation there ever was. On the other hand, you might not find them so cute after they chew up your favorite shoes and use your carpet as their personal toilet. Hear Jason and Amy talk about puppies.
Dialog
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2. Study - Read the dialog again to see how the vocab words are used.
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Amy: Wouldn’t it be awesome if we just had, like, five puppies here right now, running around, falling all over each other?
Jason: Yes. Puppies are the best.
Amy: Why are puppies so cute?
Jason: I don’t know. Their fur is softer than a normal dog, and they just have such a great attitude.
Amy: They do. They’re just so happy. They just wiggle all the time in joy.
Jason: Human babies are so cranky!
Amy: I know! I feel like puppies are definitely cuter than human babies, too, I think.
Jason: Here’s the thing about puppies, though, they turn into dogs.
Amy: I mean, dogs are great. But I wish that you could get a puppy that would stay a puppy for a little bit longer.
Jason: Exactly.
Amy: Because they do grow up really fast, much faster than human babies.
Jason: Yeah. The other day I saw this dog that was maybe, like, two feet long. And I thought it was just the most gorgeous dog I’d ever seen, and then it was pointed out to me that it was actually the puppy of an extremely large breed, and that’s why it was so amazing.
Amy: It’s true, and sometimes the puppies that grow up to be really big dogs are extra cute because they have those giant paws.
Jason: Yeah.
Amy: And they’re really clumsy, which is so cute.
Jason: Right. Here’s a trick. I just learned about this. If you want to have a constant flow of puppies, you can sign up to train seeing eye dogs, and they drop them off to you when they’re like four weeks old, and then trade them in for a new one.
Amy: Gosh, you’d just get so attached!
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Discussion
Amy thinks it would be great if she had lots of puppies around. She says there is nothing cuter than a puppy.
Jason agrees that puppies are the cutest. He loves their soft fur. He even says they have better attitudes than human babies. But he doesn’t like it when they grow up into dogs.
Amy thinks dogs are great, too. But they aren’t as cute as puppies. She would like it if puppies stayed puppies for a little longer. Jason tells her that she could train seeing eye dogs. Then she would have a dog for a few months when it was very little, and when it got older, she would give it back and get a new puppy in return. But Amy thinks she would get too attached to the puppies.
Have you ever had a puppy? Would you rather have a puppy or a fully grown dog? Do you think there is anything cuter than a puppy?
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