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Unit 026 The natural world
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| readeralexey | Дата: Понедельник, 24.11.2025, 18:23 | Сообщение # 1 |
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| Describe your experience with any representative of the animal kingdom. Use as many words from the unit as possible. You may also want to add multimedia illustrations.
A tulip is the national emblem of the Netherlands and a maple leaf represents Canada. What flower or animal is used as the national emblem of your country? Find out what other plants or animals are national emblems of other countries. Post illustrations, if possible.
There are some words derived from animal names that you might know, for example "to peacock" means "to show off ostentatiously". Please share 3-4 such derivatives that you remember and explain what they mean + provide example sentences.
Do you remember any idioms with animals, birds, flowers or trees? Sometimes their meaning is not obvious due to some differences in traditional apprehension of animal qualities and characteristic traits, indeed most of them are semantically picturesque. Please share 3-4 such idioms that you remember and explain what they mean + provide example sentences.
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| runovasveta2005 | Дата: Четверг, 27.11.2025, 08:39 | Сообщение # 2 |
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| I would like to share with you some idioms connected with the natural world. The first idiom that comes to mind is: “Birds of the same feather (flock together)”. That means people who have anything in common: interests, values, the view of the world, etc. tend to find a common language with each other. For example: “We were two birds of the same feather – small-town kids, doing the same thing”. Another idiom I recall is “to take the bull by the horns” which means “to act decisively, coming to the point”. For example: “We don’t have time to wait – we must take the bull by the horns and solve the problem until it’s too late”. The next idiom I’d like to tell about is a bit old-fashioned one: “to be someone’s pigeon”. It means to be one’s problem, something one has to deal with: “I'm glad this is your pigeon rather than mine”. But originally this expression is derived from “it’s not my pidgin” that goes back to hybrid language, the mixture of English and Chinese. There is a version, that ‘pidgin’ is Chinese pronunciation of the word ‘business’. So, the phrase literally means “It’s not my business”. The last expression, associated with plants, is rather a proverb than an idiom: “You cannot judge a tree by its bark”. That means the same as “don’t judge the book by its cover”, that is don’t judge anything by its external side. For example: “She is not as silly as you think, you cannot judge the tree by its bark”. That’s it from me, but, of course, there are a lot of dioms connected with the natural world and this list of expressions can be continued.
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| mariafokina99 | Дата: Четверг, 04.12.2025, 16:19 | Сообщение # 3 |
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| There are some words derived from animal names that you might know, for example "to peacock" means "to show off ostentatiously". Please share 3-4 such derivatives that you remember and explain what they mean + provide example sentences.
I want to share some examples of words derived from animal names. There are a lot of such words and I have chosen four of them. Firstly, "to horse around" means to behave in a silly, noisy way, like a playful animal. It can also mean wasting time on useless activities instead of doing something important. For example, Emma was horsing around instead of doing her homework. The second derived verb, "to rat on someone", means giving away secret information or failing to do something you said you would do. Ella asked her sister not to tell mother about her new relarionships, but she ratted on her. The third verb, "to badger", means annoying someone by repeatedly asking questions or telling them to do something. Peter finally badgered Rachel into going on vacation to Brazil. The fourth word, "to rabbit on about something", means talking continuously and at length about something unimportant or uninteresting. For example, Jackie often rabbits about her favourite celebrity at meetings with friends.
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