11 Listen to the summary of a newspaper article about keeping pets and decide if the statements below are true or false. Put a tick () in the right column.

	True	False
Pets are wonderful listeners. People keeping pets often fall ill. You can talk to your pet but it never understands you. Walking a dog is very healthy for a pet lover.

Vocabulary & grammar

12 Read the definitions 1- 8. For questions 1- 8, choose a - h.

1 Belonging to the sex that can have babies. 2 A small cage to keep small animals in. 3 A dry brown fruit inside a hard shell, that grows on a tree. 4 Active at night. 5 One of the round things under a car, a bicycle etc that turns when it moves. 6 To give food. 7 An area of ground in a park or in a garden covered with short grass. 8 Of sex that does not give birth to babies.

A nocturnal B hutch C nut D feed E wheel F lawn G male H female

13 Fill in the correct word from the list below.

cheap bark dangerous

look after famous pets

1 They’ve got lots of … : two dogs, a tarantula, a budgie and three kittens.

2 Pet lovers … their pets very well.

3 Some … people keep unusual pets.

4 Wild animals are too … to keep as pets.

5 The dogs always … at strangers.

6 Which pets do you think are … to feed?

14 Read the descriptions of some kinds of animals and birds which people often keep as pets. What is the word for each one? The first letter is already there. There is one space for each other letter in the word. For questions 1-10, write the words.

1 A land animal which moves slowly and can put its head and legs into the hard round shell that covers its body. T _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .

2 A small brown animal with a long tail, which uses its hands to climb trees and lives in hot countries. M _ _ _ _ _ .

3 A small creature with eight legs, which uses a fine network of sticky threads to catch insects. S _ _ _ _ _ .

4 A small shiny orange fish which people often keep as a pet.

G _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .

5 A large poisonous spider from South Europe and tropical America.

T _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .

6 A tropical bird with curved beak and feathers of bright colours. You can teach this bird to copy human speech. P _ _ _ _ _ .

7 An animal with a long thin body and no legs that often has a poisonous bite. S_ _ _ _ .

8 A small brown European animal. Its body is round and it has sharp needle - like spines. H _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .

9 A small yellow bird. C _ _ _ _ _.

10 A small brightly coloured bird. B _ _ _ _ _ .

15 Use the endings in the list to form an adjective from the word given in capitals at the end of each line.

• -y

• -ous

• -ite

• -ent

• -ive

• -ful

1 Tarantulas has got eight … legs.	HAIR
2 What is your pet’s …food?	FAVOUR
3 Many … people keep unusual pets.	FAME
4 Some snakes’ bites are … .	POISON
5 People keep … pets.	DIFFER
6 Dogs are … listeners.	WONDER
7 Hamsters are very … at night.	NOISE
8 Their dog is very old but he’s still … .	ACT
9 What a … pet you’ve got!	WONDER