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# Milk

## Verb + milk

* heat milk
* **use up the milk**
* pour milk (into a jug, cup)
* **take** milk in (your tea)
* milk comes from (cows)

## Common expressions

* low fat / **semi-skimmed** milk
* **warm milk**
* a *bottle / **carton*** of milk
* a pint / liter of milk
* be allergic **to** milk
* **the milk smells off**

## Exercise

### Verb + milk

1. I ***poured*** the milk from the carton into a jug, and put it on the breakfast table.
2. Do you ***take*** milk in your tea?
3. Believe it or not, I was 8 before I learned that milk ***comes / came*** from cows!
4. Can you ***heat*** the milk for the baby's bottle, please?
5. Someone's ***used*** *up* all the milk! What am I going to put on my cereal?

### Common expressions

1. My son *is allergic to cows' milk*, so I have to buy goat's milk. - b
2. This milk *smells off*. I'll open a new carton just to be safe. - d
3. Milk came in bottles when I was a boy. It comes in cartons now. - e
4. We've recently *switched over* *to* low fat milk. It's much better for you. - a
5. I usually have a cup of *warm milk* before bed. I find it helps me to sleep. - c