Collective nouns for groups of animals
Parler anglais

Collective nouns for groups of animals

B1IntermediateJuly 29, 20264 min

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Hi guys, I'm Ben and welcome to today's English podcast. On today's episode, we're going to take a look at some collective nouns for groups of animals. Now, if you listened to Monday's episode of Parle Anglais, you might have heard me refer to a group of geese as a flock of geese. If you're unsure what geese are, well, geese is the plural word for goose and a goose is a large bird with a

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long neck that lives near water. If you're still not sure, have a look online to see what the word means in your language, goose. So we say a flock of geese. A flock is a collective noun. It's the name we use for a group of geese. Instead of saying a group of geese, English speakers usually say a flock of geese. And there are lots of collective nouns for animals in English. And some of them

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are quite unusual. I'm going to ask you to memorize some of these. See if you can remember them, because I'll give you a little test a bit later. Let's take a look at some examples of collective nouns for groups of animals. So let's begin with cows. A herd of cows. A herd. H-E-R-D. next wolves we say a pack of wolves a pack of wolves next we have fish a school of fish

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