e3 det animals and insects definitions evu45
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Unit 45 Animals and insects
• A. Pets and farm animals
• Pets
• a small animal with fur, four legs, a tail and
claws, usually kept as a pet or for catching
mice, or any member of the group of
similar animals such as the lion
• a cat
• Dogs, cats and horses can be
microchipped. Sound : miaow/purr. He-cat
or she-cat.Young one : a kitten./A
pedigree cat./Neutering (spaying or
castrating).Kattebak : litter box. Krabpaal :
scratching post/A cat bed/a cat basket/A
pet leash. Mijn kat is loops : My cat is in
heat. Deworm your cat.
• a common animal with four legs,
especially kept by people as a pet or to
hunt or guard things
• a dog
• Sound : bark. 800 dog breeds./A mixed-
breed dog or mongrel or mutt./A litter : a
group of offspring./Young one : a pup/a
puppy. Neutering (spaying females and
castrating males) refers to the sterilization
of animals .
• Male dog/Female dog. post/A dog bed/a
dog basket/A pet leash
• a small mammal with short fur, a pointed
face, and a long tail
• a mouse/two mice
• Sound : squeak
• a small animal with long ears and large
front teeth, which moves by jumping on its
long back legs
• a rabbit
• a small, shiny, gold or orange fish which is
often kept as a pet in a bowl or garden
pool
• a goldfish/two goldfish
• bowl
• Farm animals
• a type of bird kept on a farm for its eggs or
its meat, or the meat of this bird which is
cooked and eaten
• a chicken
• Sound : cackle .Female : hen Male :
rooster or cock, young male : cockerel
Young :
chick
• a large female farm animal kept to
produce meat and milk
• a cow
• Sound :
• Female : cow/Male : bull (castrated : ox)
Young : calf
• Meat : beef/veal.
• Dairy cow.
• vee : cattle.
• an animal which is related to sheep, which
usually has horns, and which lives wild on
mountains or is kept on farms to provide
milk, meat, wool, etc
• a goat
• sound : bleat
• a large animal with four legs which people
ride on or use for carrying things or pulling
vehicles
• a horse
• Male horse : a stallion.
• Female horse : a mare.
• Young horse : a foal.
• a large pink, brown or black farm animal
with short legs and a curved tail, kept for
its meat
• a pig
• Female pig : a sow
• Male pig : a boar.
• Young pig : piglet, suckling.
• a farm animal with thick wool, that eats
grass and is kept for its wool, skin and
meat
• a sheep/two sheep
• Sound : bleat
• Male sheep : ram, buck
• Female sheep : ewe.
• Young one : lamb.
Meat : young : lamb/old : mutton
• B. Wild animals
• a large, strong wild mammal with a thick
fur coat that lives especially in colder parts
of Europe, Asia and North America
• a bear
• a large animal with a long neck, that lives
in the desert and has one or two humps (=
large raised areas of flesh) on its back
• a camel
• a very large grey mammal which has a
trunk (= long nose) with which it can pick
things up
• an elephant
• a large African animal with a very long
neck and long legs
• a giraffe
• a large ape that comes from western
Africa
• a gorilla
• a large wild cat that has yellow fur with
black spots on it and lives in Africa and
southern Asia
• a leopard
• a large wild animal of the cat family with
yellowish brown fur which lives in Africa
and southern Asia
• a lion
• Sound : roar
• an animal that lives in hot countries, has a
long tail and climbs trees. They are
primates (= the group of animals which are
most like humans
• a monkey
• a large wild animal of the cat family with
yellowish orange fur with black lines which
lives in parts of Asia
• a tiger
• an African wild animal which looks like a
horse, and which has black or brown and
white lines on its body
• a zebra
• C. Insects
• a very small insect which lives under the
ground in large and well-organized social
groups
• an ant
• a yellow and black flying insect which
makes honey and can sting you
• a bee
• Sound : buzz
• Produces honey
• a type of insect with large often brightly
coloured wings
• a butterfly
• a small insect with two wings
• a fly
• a small flying insect that bites people and
animals, and sucks their blood
• a mosquito
• a small creature similar to an insect with
eight thin legs which catches other insects
in a web (= a net made from sticky
threads)
• a spider
• It makes a web.
• D. In the water, in the air and on the ground
• In the water
• a very large sea mammal that breathes air
through a hole at the top of its head
• a dolphin
• a sea mammal that is large, smooth and
grey, with a long pointed mouth
• a whale
• In the air
• a large strong bird with a curved beak
which eats meat and can see very well
• an eagle
• On the ground
• a small creature with a soft wet body and a
round shell, that moves very slowly and
often eats garden plants
• a snail
• a reptile with a long cylindrical body and
no legs
• a snake
• Sound : hiss
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