Less than 2% of the British ____ is employed on farms. In the autumn, at _____ time, the ______ in the fields have to be gathered in and the fruit in the orchards has to be ______. In the Alps, ______ are kept indoors in winter and spend the summer in the ______. Pollution is caused when waste products or ________ contaminate the environment.
7. Make nouns ending “er” or “or” from these verbs:work, fertilize, visit, drive, clean, act, operate, manage, employ, speak, milk, garden, plant, harvest, farm, trade.
8. Translate the following noun + noun combinations.
Land shares, livestock inventories, fertilizer use, grain production, key production zone, oilseed crop, soil depletion, crop rotation practices, sugar beet production, hand labor, grain quality, soil moisture, on-farm storage capacity, debt burden, living standard
9. Decide whether these words are nouns or verbs.
Inventor, scientist, modernize, contribute, modernization, improvement, contribution, concentrate, variety, development, organize, illustrate, manager, management, illustration, modify, activity, identify, difference, coordination, specialize, refinement, modification, characterize, specialization, identification, concentration, specialist, coordinate, owner, fertilization, operate, contractor, utilization, fertilization, utilize, transportation, legislation, fertilize, application, requirement, container, adoption.
10. Writing composition. Possible composition titles:
1. Current farm problems in Ukraine.
2. Agriculture of Canada.
3. Special features of agriculture in the USA.