Unit 5 Page 47 Lesson B3A

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3: listening

we got robbed

A: listen to Jenny talk about a burglary; answer the questions.

I don’t suppose you’ve ever been robbed, have you? living here must be pretty safe.

Well, we thought so too, but actually, yes we did get robbed once a couple of years ago.

we were really surprised.

were you in the house when it happened? I mean that would be scary!

No, we were away at the time.

we were on a business trip when it happened, so the house was empty and there was no car outside, so I guess it was an obvious target really.

so the house looked empty?

Yeah, but having said that though, my neighbor was using the house at night to sleep in because she was redecorating her house next door; so she was sleeping here, and one night she came in and saw a few things on the floor and thought that’s funny and then she walked around the house and saw the window was broken; so she called the police.

so they broke in during the day?

yeah probably late in the afternoon.

no one was around and no one heard anything, so…

did they do much damage?

No! that’s the funny thing; they were very neat and tidy.

they didn’t make any mess at all; except for breaking the window of course.

Really? and did they take much?

No, they mainly just took out two computers.

there were lots of other things that were valuable in the house, cameras, money, jewelry, even some credit cards! but they didn’t take anything else of value.

Isn’t that weird?

Yes; I mean we both lost a few things but nothing much.

it was a bit inconvenient not having the computers, but that’s all.

we were lucky really.

so were you upset by it? did you feel your home was invaded and everything?

Not really; I mean I thought I would be upset, but my neighbor very kindly cleaned the place up and her father fixed the window so by the time we got home, everything was okay.

and we got new computers out of it; Better computers!

so that was good, I guess.

Did the burglars ever get caught?

I don’t think so, we never heard anything from the police, so I think they got away with it…