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hi. i'm gill at www.engvid.com, and today we're goingto be looking at "onomatopoeia". now, don't run away. it's a very long greekword, but it means something quite simple. it means words that imitate sounds. okay?so, like a cat that makes a sound: "meow, meow, meow", and it'sbeen turned into a word. either "mew, mew, mew,mew" or "meow", "miaow", two different spellings, there. three. threedifferent spellings. in your language, you... i'm sure you have words for these sounds aswell, but they may be different because of

your language having different vowel soundsin it and so on. you probably have words for sounds, but they won't be exactly the same,probably, as the english version. okay. so, i've divided theminto three categories: sounds of animals, soundsthat human can make (sometimes embarrassing), and other, othersounds. okay. so, let's start with the animals. so, we've already had the cat sound: "meow".so, that's the kind of spelling we have for that. for a dog, it's either: "bark" or "woof",and you can sort of make the sound or try to: "bark, bark, bark, bark, bark".that's the sort of "bark" sound. "woof, woof, woof, woof", that's the"woof" sound. okay? so that's the dog.

this one, b-a-a is:"baaaaaaa", and that's a sheep. okay? so, in normal speak, wedon't go around using the words like this, we don't actually imitate the animal sound. wejust say it normally, like: "meow", "bark", "woof", "baa", but you can actually make thereal sound if you can, if you want to. but not in normal conversation. people might thinkyou're a little bit strange if you start going around making the actual animal sounds.so, be careful how you use them. okay? so, that's the sheep. "mooooooo" is a... can you guess what a...?what makes that sound: "moo, moo"? oh dear, i can't do that one very well. that is acow. okay? and children actually call them

"moo cows". they put the sound of the cowwith the name of the cow, and they say: "oh, look, moo cows." so, they put the sound with the name. okay?also, with the "baa", with the baby sheep, the lamb, they say: "aww, baalambs, baa lambs." so, they put the sound the animal makes with the name of the animal.okay. this one: "whinny" and "neigh" is for a horse or a pony. i don't know if i can do this."neigh", something like that, or: "buh-le-le-le-le-le", that sort of sound, and they shake their headas well. okay? so that's a horse or a pony. the pony is a smallerversion of a horse. okay. can you guess what makes this sound: "quack,quack, quack, quack"? in normal speech, you

just say: "quack", but youcan make it more like: "quack, quack, quack, quack,quack, quack, quaaack". that's a duck. okay? a duck, a bird.right. "hisssssss", and normally you just say: "hiss", make a shorter sound. but ifyou're going to imitate the thing: "hisssssss", and that would be like a snake. or sometimes acat makes a hissing sound as well, so anything making a hissing sound. okay. this one: "howl" or"yowl", nice, round open vowel sound: "howwwwwl, yowwwwwl", so it could be a dog who's veryunhappy and the owner has left the dog at home all day on its own and it's getting veryupset without human company. and this is what

the dogs do eventually: "owww, owwwww", meaning:"i've been abandoned. where is my family? i'm all on my own." or it... sorry. it canbe a dog, a domestic dog, but it can also be a wild animal, like a wolf. okay. so, quite afun one, too, to do that. i've always enjoyed: "owww", howling. okay. so, moving on to humans. this one you mayalready have seen a lesson that contains this word: "burp", "belch", both mean if you havesome air inside you when you've been eating and you have to let the air come out: "burp".i can't do it because i haven't got any air to come out. "blah", it's when the air comesout. i can't do it, sorry. if you watch ronnie, i think ronnie does a perfect one of these.so, okay. right, so that's "burp" or "belch",

to let out some airfrom your stomach. "clap", can you guess what that is, to clap?[claps hands] so that's the clapping sound. right? when people clap, an audienceclap after someone has performed. "slap"-[slaps face]-when you do that. or-[slapshands]-slap, slap, slap, slap. okay? "cough". [coughs], that's the cough. okay. "hiccup". "hiccup,hiccup, hiccup, hiccup". okay? so if you've got the... when you can't stop the air comingup at regular intervals. it's very difficult to stop. "hiccup, hiccup, hiccup".okay? "hiccup". to "sneeze", when you have a cold or if yournose just tickles, a funny feeling in your nose and you go: "ah-chu", like that. andit's... i suppose it sort of imitates the

sound: "sneeze, sneeze, sneeze". there's alot of s's and z's in there, so it's that sort of sound. "sneeze, sneeze", like that.okay? "mumble". if people don't speak very clearly and they sort of [mumbles] like this,and they're talking quietly to each other and you can't hear them properly, butyou can hear this funny sound going on: "mumble, mumble, mumble, mumble, mumble, mumble",that's to mumble. don't mumble, because if you're speaking to someone and you mumble, they won'tbe able to hear what you're saying. okay? "mutter", similarly: "mutter, mutter, mutter,mutter". if two people are muttering in the corner of the room and you think:-"what are they muttering about?" -"mutter, mutter, mutter, mutter, mutter, mutter, mutter",some secret they have that they're talking about.

to "stutter" and to "stammer" are when someonerepeats a sound. "stutter, stutter". if they can't get the sound out properly. it's a veryunfortunate thing to have a stutter, and people have to have coaching to get out of doing it.stutter. if, say, with a word like "turn", and if you go: "t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-turn",when it's like that, the person can't get the word out properly. and with "stammer"as well: "m-m-m-m-m-m-mother", so the "m" for stammering. okay? and then finally, if you're very tired orvery bored, which i hope you're not at this moment, but if you get tired and you do this:"ahh, ahh", and it's a good idea to cover your mouth when you do this, but i didn'tcover my mouth because i wanted you to see:

"yaaaaaawn", "ahhhhhh", "yaaaaaawn". so, that'sthe "yawn", when you open your mouth and breathe in a lot of air when you're tired or bored.okay, you need some fresh air or you need to go to bed. okay. finally, a few other sounds which come morefrom objects, inanimate objects rather than animals and people. so: "bang". [bangs onboard]. "bang, bang, bang, bang", any sound like that. "clatter"... oh, i do this.[taps on board with markers]. that's a clattering sound. "clatter,clatter, clatter, clatter, clatter". okay? "click". [clicks fingers],that's a click. or [hits markers together], that could be a click. or...[hits marker on board]. no, that's not really clicky

enough. [clicks fingers], that's more of aclick. it's quite a sharp sound, a click. click your fingers. we say:"clicking your fingers". okay. "crash", that's when something quite big andprobably made of metal or pottery, plates, cups, and saucers, cars crash. quite a loudnoise and a lot of damage probably. okay. with a crash, crash. if you think of droppinga whole pile of plates on a hard tiled floor: "crash!" and they all break, and it makes aterrible noise. okay. "ping, ping", if you put a meal in the microwave and given it fiveminutes, say, and then it's ready and the microwave goes: "ping!" and youknow that it's ready. okay? "ping". and "ring": "ring, ring, ring, ring, ring". anythingcan ring. the doorbell can ring, a bell in a church

tower can ring. "ding-dong, ding-dong",ringing, so it sort of imitates the sound. "squeak", that could be an animal, like amouse, if they do squeak. i've never heard a mouse squeak and don't really want to becausei can't bear mice. oh, horrible. but things can squeak as well, like a door: "ee-enh,ee-enh, ee-enh", like that, that's a squeaky sound. "squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak".okay? a clock: "tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, tick tock,tick tock". okay? "tick tock". and "thump". oh, again, it's like: [hits fist on board], asort of dull sound. "thump, thump, thump". okay. right, so that's quite a few onomatopoeiawords. and finally, to end, i don't know if you know this breakfast cereal called ricekrispies. i remember it from years and years

ago when i was a child and i used to eat it.and one of the advertising things about it is that if you pour the milk on it, it makes asound. well, it makes three sounds, it goes: "snap, crackle, pop!" so, if you ever get the chanceto try rice krispies, put them in a bowl, pour some milk on, put your eardown to it like they do in the television adverts, and you'll hear:"snap, crackle, pop!" okay? so, there we are. that's onomatopoeia. i hope thatwasn't too painful. so, anyway, if you'd like to

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