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BBC Learning English 

Words in the News   

16th May 2012 

Cat café 

Transcript: 

Dogs are  forbidden  here.   

But feline visitors are more than welcome in  this new coffee house in Vienna.   

Café Neko is home to five cats which customers can cuddle  whilst enjoying a hot 

drink. 

Cat cafés are a popular phenomenon in Japan, but this is a first for Austria.   

Officials were initially worried it would be unhygienic, but the establishment is 

already proving popular. 

Vocabulary: 

forbidden 

not allowed  

feline 

cat 

cuddle 

hug affectionately 

phenomenon 

something extraordinary 

unhygienic 

unsanitary 

Watch this video online:  Cat café     

Exercise: 

Use one of the words or phrases below to complete each of these sentences from 

BBC news reports.   

Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence 

correctly. 

forbidden / feline / cuddle / phenomenon / unhygienic   

1.   Workers at the centre have produced a video called '12 cats of Christmas' to 

highlight some of their ___________ charges. 

2.   They are as dangerous as any other bear, they will grab at you and have 

enormous teeth and powerful forearms so I am not going to ___________ them. 

3. Activists say the jails are ___________, filthy and sometimes violent. 

4. The ________________, known as a perigee full moon, means the Moon 

appears up to 14% bigger and 30% brighter than when it is furthest from the 

planet.  

5.   The stray dog population rocketed when former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu 

forced people to move into large complexes where pets were 

__________________. 

Answers: 

1. Workers at the centre have produced a video called '12 cats of Christmas' to 

highlight some of their  feline charges. 

2.    They are as dangerous as any other bear - they will grab at you and have 

enormous teeth and powerful forearms so I am not going to  cuddle them.  

3. Activists say the jails are  unhygienic, filthy and sometimes violent. 

4. The  phenomenon, known as a perigee full moon, means the Moon appears 

up to 14% bigger and 30% brighter than when it is furthest from the planet. 

5. The stray dog population rocketed when former dictator Nicolae Ceausescu 

forced people to move into large complexes where pets were forbidden .