1. Writing a paragraph One key point

2. General Information Cows are four legged Live in barns Live in fields Eat grass Have hooves Have horns Have a tail Come in different colors Give milk Have calves

3. Added to it Milk :A cow makes milk inside a part of her body called udders. Cows are milked twice a day. Machines pump the milk out of the cows' udders. The milk is cooled and taken in big tankers to a factory. In the factory, the milk is heated to kill germs. The milk is put into bottles or cartons and taken to shops so we can buy it. Cow's milk has a watery part and a thicker part called cream. Sometimes the cream is mixed through the milk before it is bottled or put in a carton. Sometimes the cream is taken out and put into bottles and taken to shops to be sold separately. Milk without cream is called skim milk. It is put into bottles and cartons and taken to shops. Some milk is made into cheese. Some milk is made into butter. The milk is shaken until it turns into butter. Some milk is made into yoghurt Thomas, R. & Sydenham, S. Farms: Cattle [Online] www.kidcyber.com.au (2001

4. Breeds A list of cattle breeds, varieties, moocows, and crosses that are found around the world. This 929 name list contains no synonyms, bantengs, or moose. Compiled by John Pukite. Additions, corrections, comments can be sent to pukite@daina.com. pukite@daina.com

5. History cattle The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition | 2008 | Copyright Copyright ChicagoAPA "cattle." The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 12 May. 2010. cattle.http://www.encyclopedia.comcattle.http://www.encyclopedia.com Learn more about citation styles Learn more about citation styles cattle name for the ruminant mammals of the genus Bos, and particularly those of the domesticated species, Bos taurus and B. indica. The term oxen, broadly used, refers also to closely related animals, such as the buffalo and the bison. Narrowly used, ox refers to a mature castrated male used for draft purposes. In referring to domestic cattle a grown male is a bull, a grown female a cow, an infant a calf, and an animal between one and two years old a yearling. A female that has not given birth is a heifer; a castrated male is a steer. Most cattle have unbranched horns consisting of a horny layer surrounding a bone extension of the skull; these horns, unlike those of deer, are not shed. Some cattle are naturally hornless. Western, or European, domestic cattle ( Bos taurus ) are thought to be descended mainly from the aurochs, a large European wild ox domesticated during ruminantbuffalobisonruminantbuffalobison

6. Now! You should be able to write a good paragraph about a cow.