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A beautiful male peacock

PRACTICE

9 Complete the conversation with the words from the box. Then listen and check your answers.
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amazing attractive brown colorful favorite green nice terrible

Petra: What are you watching?

Alex: It’s a documentary about birds. Look, this part is about peacocks.
Petra: Oh, good—peacocks are my (1) favorite kind of bird.

Alex: Really?
Petra: Yes. I love their feathers. The colors are (2) !

Alex: Well, yes, the males are very (3) , but the females aren’t.
Their feathers aren’t (4) ; they’re (5) .
Petra: I know, but that’s the way it is with most birds: the male has beautiful feathers, so he is

(6) to females.
Alex: I guess so. Well, they certainly are interesting, beautiful birds, but they make a
(7) noise.

Petra: Yes, that’s true. When a male calls out to the female birds, he doesn’t make a very
(8) sound.

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