A Birds and animals
B Flowers and trees
C Specific animals
Here are the English names of some creatures that you may not know.
D Some verbs and collocations for talking about processes in nature
- Our apple tree flowers / blossoms in April.
- Let’s pick some flowers.
- These birds lay their eggs on the ground.
- Bees collect pollen from flowers to make honey.
- Some verbs can be intransitive (no object) or transitive (with an object):
- These flowers grow very quickly. We grew some tomatoes in our garden last year.
- These animals breed in the spring. My neighbour breeds Burmese cats and sells them.
Common mistakes
- Remember, we pick flowers / fruit; we don’t say pick up.
- We picked some flowers and put them in a vase. (NOT
picked up)
- We pick something up when it has fallen from its normal position or someone drops it.
- A woman dropped her purse so I picked it up and gave it back to her.
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