The Goat

Sometimes in the village you can see an animal as big as a dog with horns on its head. This is a goat.

The goat is a very useful animal. It gives milk to people. From goat’s milk people make butter and cheese, too.

The goats are strong. They like to run and jump. They also can climb high hills. The goats like to fight. They often butt each other with their horns.

The goats feed on many kinds of plants. When they get into a vegetable garden, they may cause great harm, because they can eat cabbage and other vegetables. That is why farmers usually tie goats to the sticks pounded into the ground.

Baby goats are called kids.

Answer the questions:

1. What animal can you see in the village sometimes?

2. What is the goat like?

3. Is the goat a useful animal? Prove it.

4. Are the goats strong?

5. In what way do the goats fight?

6. What do the goats feed on?

7. What do they like to eat?

8. In what way do farmers tie the goats?

9. How are baby goats called?

Task 9. Read the text and answer the questions.

The Pig

The pig is a very useful animal. People like its flesh which is called pork. When people salt it, it is called bacon and ham.

Besides pork people get from the pig leather and stiff hairs of which they make brushes.

Answer the questions:

1. Is the pig a useful animal?

2. How is the pig’s flesh called?

3. How is the salt pork called?

4. What else do people get from the pig?

Task 10. Answer the questions.

I

1. When were animals tamed by man?

2. Are domestic animals very important in our life?

3. What kind of domestic animals do the English farmers keep?

4. How are the animals, that live on a farm, called?

5. What is cattle?

6. Where is the cattle kept?

7. Where are the dairy farms usually situated?

8. What do the cattle-farms and the dairy-farms produce?

9. Are there many pig-farms in Britain?

10. What do the pig-farms produce?

11. What food is very popular with the English people?

12. Do the British farmers keep sheep?

13. What role did sheep-farming play in the economy of England in the past?

14. Where are the most of the sheep-farms situated?

15. What do the poultry-farms produce?

16. What do the poultry-farms do in autumn?

17. Are all domestic animals kept in England?

18. What domestic animals are not kept in England?

II

1. Do you or your relatives keep any domestic animals?

2. What domestic animals do you or your relatives keep?

3. Can you milk a cow?

4. What domestic animals do the farmers keep in your place?

5. Are there any cattle-farms, sheep-farms, pig-farms or poultry-farms in your place? Describe them.

6. Is the cow a useful domestic animal? Prove it.

7. Is the sheep a useful domestic animal? Prove it.

8. Is the pig a useful domestic animal? Prove it.

9. Is the horse a useful domestic animal? Prove it.

10. What is the most useful domestic animal? Prove it.

Task 11. Write a composition on one of the following subjects:

1. “The Domestic Animals Kept in Our Place”

2. “The Most Useful Domestic Animals”

Task 12. Decide whether these statements are true (T) or false (F).

1. All the animals, that live on a farm, are called cattle.

2. Cows and oxen are birds.

3. The pig-farms in Britain produce pork.