Revision

1. Check if you have learnt all the words:

Wool, a breed, to breed, to refer, mutton, range, conditions, to graze, wrinkles, folds, a ram, a ewe, selection, vigorous, weight, to transmit, a tendency, rapid, growth, desirable, market, characteristics, to gain, to shear, to secure, purebred, to withstand, severe, lambing, period, a quarter, susceptible, chilling, breeding, a flock, contagious, a disease, internal, external, a parasite, to damage, to infect, to eliminate, to occur, pregnant, to be paralysed, preventive, measures,thrift, vitality, a loss, rotational, grazing, a tick, a worm, to dip.

1. Group them according to the parts of speech:

nouns	verbs	adjectives	participles

2. Guess the chainword:

b

d

e

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l

g

e

1. a type, variety of species; 2) injure or hurt; 3) a female sheep; 4) outside; 5) giving birth to the offspring (sheep); 6) to eat grass.

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n

1. to take place; 2) alternation (adj.); 3) something that is lost; 4) to cut wool from a sheep; 5) a male sheep; 6) the flesh of sheep used as food.

2. What new information have you learnt about breeding sheep? Ask and answer the questions with a partner:

3. Imagine that you are going to breed sheep. What is necessary to make the business successful? What kind of equipment do you need? What food is most preferable? What breeds do you give preference to? Speak with the partner.

4. What type of farm animals would you like to have if you had your own farm? What is necessary to make a profit if we speak about mass production? What factors can influence the business?. Give your ideas.