2017-05-04 Convo: dogs and other pets

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Do you have any pets in your country? What kind?
Do you have pets here?
Other than cats and dogs, what other pets are common in your country?
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These should be pronounced differently:
beer
bear
burr
bird
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we’re (When pronounced carefully, this rhymes with “beer”.)
wear/where (These rhyme with “bear”.)
were (This rhymes with burr.)
worm
word (This rhymes with “bird”)
world
wore/war (This rhymes with “bore”.)
warn (This rhymes with “born”.)
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We were wearing what we wore when we whirled around the world.
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Baby animal words:
dog - puppy
cat - kitten
lion/bear/similar - cub
horse - foal
bull/cow - calf (This is also used for a lot of large mammals, such as whales.)
sheep - lamb
deer - fawn (The meat from a deer is venison.)
rabbit - kit
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2011/05/baby-animal-names/
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Expressions about dogs:
His bark is worse than his bite.
It’s raining cats and dogs.
Let sleeping dogs lie.
Two dogs can kill a lion.
- What do these mean? Do you have similar expressions in your language?