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Vocabulary: drinking... and eating - English lesson
Today, our purpose is to study the different ways of drinking and eating... A strange idea, as we could imagine there's only one way of doing these two daily actions... and yet ...



I) HOW TO DRINK?
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To sip tea= drink little mouthfuls (notice his little finger!) | A sipper = (for babies or sick people) | Swallowing liquids |
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To gulp = (swallowing large mouthfuls) | To guzzle | To quaff = to drink heartily |
Kittens lapping up milk
II) ... WHAT ABOUT EATING?
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To peck at food | To nibble | To chew |
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To munch/ masticate | To swallow | To stuff oneself with... |
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To swallow whole * | To choke | To vomit/ throw up |
* to swallow whole = to gobble up/ down = Those ways of eating are quite rude and may make you sick!
Eating an ice-cream, or licking it?
Here we are. Now, you know all the verbs which are necessary to have a wonderful grade at the test! Good luck!

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