English Conversation Questions

Milk

Questions

1. How often do you drink milk?
2. Is milk good for your health?
3. How useful is milk?
4. Hot milk or cold milk – which is best, and why?
5. Do you prefer no-fat, low-fat, regular or full-fat milk?
6. Is breast feeding very common in your country?
7. What’s your favourite milk shake and why?
8. Have you ever tried other milks rather cow’s milk?

Videos

When it comes to the animal kingdom’s most extreme milk, cows don’t make the cut. Hooded seal milk contains more fat than ice cream, while wallaby milk contains more sugar than coca cola. Nine banded armadillos

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produce milk with ten times the calcium as cow milk, and flamingos produce a pink, nutritious, fluid called crop milk.

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Category:  Food | Nature & Environment
Keywords: Animals | Milk
Like Romeo & Juliet or Batman & Robin, milk & cookies is a pairing that’s just meant to be. But what makes dunking cookies in milk so satisfying? To find the answer, we turned to science.

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Scientist, chemistry professor and certified dunking expert Matt Hartings breaks down the curious chemical composition that makes milk and cookies a universal favorite. Of course, we didn’t need science to tell us it’s delicious.

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Category:  Food
Keywords: Cookies | Milk | Traditions

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board (noun)
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canoe
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real estate
prosper
fulfilled

Expressions:
subsistence living
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Expressions:
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Vocabulary:
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shake a feeling
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going above and beyond
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