1. Unit 45 Animals and insects

2. • A. Pets and farm animals

3. • Pets

4. • 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

6. • 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.

7. • a common animal with four legs,
especially kept by people as a pet or to
hunt or guard things

9. • 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

10. • a small mammal with short fur, a pointed
face, and a long tail

12. • a mouse/two mice
• Sound : squeak

13. • a small animal with long ears and large
front teeth, which moves by jumping on its
long back legs

15. • a rabbit

16. • a small, shiny, gold or orange fish which is
often kept as a pet in a bowl or garden
pool

18. • a goldfish/two goldfish
• bowl

19. • Farm animals

20. • 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

22. • a chicken
• Sound : cackle .Female : hen Male :
rooster or cock, young male : cockerel
Young :
chick

23. • a large female farm animal kept to
produce meat and milk

25. • a cow
• Sound :
• Female : cow/Male : bull (castrated : ox)
Young : calf
• Meat : beef/veal.
• Dairy cow.
• vee : cattle.

26. • 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

28. • a goat
• sound : bleat

29. • a large animal with four legs which people
ride on or use for carrying things or pulling
vehicles

31. • a horse
• Male horse : a stallion.
• Female horse : a mare.
• Young horse : a foal.

32. • a large pink, brown or black farm animal
with short legs and a curved tail, kept for
its meat

34. • a pig
• Female pig : a sow
• Male pig : a boar.
• Young pig : piglet, suckling.

35. • a farm animal with thick wool, that eats
grass and is kept for its wool, skin and
meat

37. • a sheep/two sheep
• Sound : bleat
• Male sheep : ram, buck
• Female sheep : ewe.
• Young one : lamb.
Meat : young : lamb/old : mutton

38. • B. Wild animals

39. • a large, strong wild mammal with a thick
fur coat that lives especially in colder parts
of Europe, Asia and North America

41. • a bear

42. • 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

44. • a camel

45. • a very large grey mammal which has a
trunk (= long nose) with which it can pick
things up

47. • an elephant

48. • a large African animal with a very long
neck and long legs

50. • a giraffe

51. • a large ape that comes from western
Africa

53. • a gorilla

54. • a large wild cat that has yellow fur with
black spots on it and lives in Africa and
southern Asia

56. • a leopard

57. • a large wild animal of the cat family with
yellowish brown fur which lives in Africa
and southern Asia

59. • a lion
• Sound : roar

60. • 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

62. • a monkey

63. • a large wild animal of the cat family with
yellowish orange fur with black lines which
lives in parts of Asia

65. • a tiger

66. • an African wild animal which looks like a
horse, and which has black or brown and
white lines on its body

68. • a zebra

69. • C. Insects

70. • a very small insect which lives under the
ground in large and well-organized social
groups

72. • an ant

73. • a yellow and black flying insect which
makes honey and can sting you

75. • a bee
• Sound : buzz
• Produces honey

76. • a type of insect with large often brightly
coloured wings

78. • a butterfly

79. • a small insect with two wings

81. • a fly

82. • a small flying insect that bites people and
animals, and sucks their blood

84. • a mosquito

85. • a small creature similar to an insect with
eight thin legs which catches other insects
in a web (= a net made from sticky
threads)

87. • a spider
• It makes a web.

88. • D. In the water, in the air
and on the ground

89. • In the water

90. • a very large sea mammal that breathes air
through a hole at the top of its head

92. • a dolphin

93. • a sea mammal that is large, smooth and
grey, with a long pointed mouth

95. • a whale

96. • In the air

97. • a large strong bird with a curved beak
which eats meat and can see very well

99. • an eagle

100. • On the ground

101. • a small creature with a soft wet body and a
round shell, that moves very slowly and
often eats garden plants

103. • a snail

104. • a reptile with a long cylindrical body and
no legs

106. • a snake
• Sound : hiss