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Six-minute vocabulary.

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Hi, I'm Rob.

And I'm Catherine.

Welcome to six-minute vocabulary.

Our subject for today is Onomatopoeia. That means words that sound like the thing

they mean. And Catherine and I will be trying to demonstrate some of these words today.

Yes, like the sound that most people's phones make when they get text messages. We call that

sound a beep. Beep. That's it, Rob. Yeah.

That's Onomatopoeia. The word sounds like the thing it means, beep. Beep, beep. Yes. Have I got a message?

Right, okay. There are lots of examples of Onomatopear in the English language and we'll take a look at some of them on today's show.

So let's start with a clip of Oliver

and he's talking about living in the city.

While you listen, try to answer this question.

How does Oliver feel about city life?

It's too noisy for me.

All the cars zooming around and honking their horns,

music blaring in shops,

machines buzzing and bleeping.

Even at night it isn't quiet.

You can still hear the fridge humming

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