Cows, young cows and meat reading comprehension

Abdullah and his brother Said are talking.

Abdullah: How do you say ‘a young cow’ in English?

Said: I don’t know, can you just say a one-year-old cow?

Abdullah: Yes, but there’s a word for it.

Said: The translator says caf

Abdullah: Ahh, no, I remember now, it’s not caf it’s calf. It sounds like car with an f on the end.

• A young cow is called 'A one-year-old cow'

• A young cow is called a caf

• A young cow is called a calf

• A young cow is called a car

Said: Calf. There’s that song, isn’t there, that dad likes: ’Baby got a fast calf…’ Why has a baby got a fast calf? That’s dangerous!

Abdullah: It’s ‘fast car’ not ‘fast calf’.

Said: That’s worse! Baby’s can’t have fast cars!

Abdullah: It’s not really a baby, it’s habibi in English. The woman is singing to her sweatheart -a man -her habibi.

Said: Oh, I see

• The song is about a baby and a fast calf

• The song is about a baby and fast car

• The song is about a man and a fast car

• The song is about a fast calf and a sweetheart

Abdullah: Anyway, the word is calf. But they don't call the meat ‘calf' when they eat it, they call it veal.

Said: They call it feel? The English are very strange.

Abdullah: No, ‘veal’ it sounds like feel but with a v.

• A calf's meat is called veal.

• A calf's meat is called feel

• A calf's meat is called strange.

• A calf's meat is called calf.

Said: But the word for when they eat cow’s meat is beef. I remember that from school.

Abdullah: So, a cow’s meat is beef but a calf’s meat is veal.

Said: And if you eat a car, what do you eat?

Abdullah: You eat a lot of metal!

• A cow's meat is called veal.

• A calf's meat is called beef.

• A cow's meat is called veal and a calf's meat is called metal.

• A cow's meat is called beef and a calf's meet is called veal.

What is a calf?

• the meat of a cow

• the meat of a young cow

• a young cow

• an American cow

What is veal?

• It's the meat of a cow

• It's the meat of a calf

• It's a young cow

• It's a baby with a fast car

What is the meat from a cow called?

• veal

• calf

• metal

• beef

Baby is a word that small human and also

• sweetheart

• cow

• calf

• car

A young cow is called a

the meat of a cow is called