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Vocabulary: drinking... and eating

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 ...     They all depend on the quantity of food or liquid ingested and of the way to act. Not all of them are to be imitated! 

I) HOW TO DRINK?  

To sip tea= drink little mouthfuls         (notice his little finger!)	A sipper        = (for babies or sick people)	Swallowing liquids
To gulp       = (swallowing large mouthfuls)	To guzzle	To quaff               = to drink heartily

                                                 Kittens lapping up milk

II) ... WHAT ABOUT EATING?

To peck at food	To nibble	To chew
To munch/ masticate	To swallow	To stuff oneself with...
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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2. During the heat wave, people swallowedsipeddrunklickedI don't know cool water and peckedchewdsneezedlickedI don't know deliciously refreshing ice-creams.

3. Binge drinkingBinge watchingBinge eatingI don't know is a disorder often leading to bulimia.

4. At the end of the Marathon, the athletes splashed their faces with water and gulped downpeckedsipedchewedI don't know their drinks.

5. She has always been lickedpecking atgulped downchewedI don't know food... No wonder she's so thin...

6. Don't lickchewpeck upgobble downI don't know your food... You'll be sick if you don't nibblegobblesipchewI don't know it enough...

7. Listen! Can you hear Bunny, our pet rabbit, lickinglapping upnibblinggulpingI don't know at the carrot I've just put in his cage?

8. The kitten is carefully and slowly gobbling downsippinglapping uplaping inI don't know the milk out of its saucer...

9. I've seen so many teenagers taken to the ER after a binge eatingbinge drinkingbinge watchingI don't know party...

10. Stop drinking and eating so much and so quickly, Jim. You're going to throw upbingelap upgulpI don't know if you go on in such a way.