5. Choose the animal, the bird, the fish. Fill in the missing words from the sentences below. Choose from the box, using plural forms where necessary.

bird

stag

goat

bull

dog

goose

cat

donkey

horse

1. Turning up half an hour late for the interview really cooked his ___. 2. We were hoping to keep the wedding a secret, but my mother soon let the ___ out of the bag. 3. You're flogging a dead ___ trying to get Harry to change his mind! 4. I don't think I'd recognize her now, it's ___ years since I last saw her. 5. Harold has really gone to the ___ since his wife died. Looking at him now, it's hard to believe he was once a successful lawyer. 6. It's not that I mind giving her a lift home every Tuesday, but what gets my ___ is the fact that she's never once offered to pay for the petrol. 7. As I had to go to Swansea on business, I decided to kill two ___ with one stone and visit my old school. 8. Although he had only known her for two weeks he decided to take the ___ by the horns and ask her to marry him. 9. We are off to a ___ party tonight — David is getting married on Saturday.

5. Choose the part of the body. Fill in the missing words from the list of words below, using plural forms where necessary.

arm

brain

chest

back

hair

leg

finger

hand

mouth

blood

cheek

heart

stomach

bone

breast

tooth

foot

1. Being retired, he suddenly found himself with lots of time on his ___ but with little to do to occupy it. 2. You need to have a strong ___ to work in a slaughterhouse. 3. He got up very late this morning and then had the ___ to complain about his breakfast being cold. 4. She had a sweet ___ and couldn't resist buying chocolates and cream cakes. 5. None of the students liked Mr Baker. In fact, everyone was glad to see the ___ of him when he left to teach in Italy. 6. I think I'll go and stretch my ___ I've been sitting down all morning and I'm feeling a bit stiff. 7. I've got an essay to write on the history of computing. Unfortunately, I don't know anything about it, so do you mind if I pick your ___? 8. The viewers were up ___ when the television station announced it was going to change the time of the evening news broadcast from 9 o'clock to 9.30. 9. There's something wrong somewhere. I can't put my ___ on what it is exactly, but something just doesn't feel right. 10. The cruel way some owners treat pets makes my ___ boil. 11. "Hurry up, Dorothy! The taxi's waiting!" "All right! Keep your ___ on". 12. Getting a problem off your ___ is the first stage to being able to solve it. 13. She decided to make a clean ___ of everything and confess that she was the one who had stolen the money. 14. You'd better be careful what you say to Samantha. You know how sensitive she is to criticism — she takes everything to ___ 15. I think there's going to be trouble at the meeting tonight, I can feel it in my ___. 16. David and the new boss seem to have got off on the wrong ___. Poor David! There go his chances for promotion.