3 Comprehension check

1. Complete the sentences with the words given in the box.

power-operated, designed, range, implements, harrow, crops

1. Today a wide _______of machinery can be used on a farm.

2. Agricultural _______ and machines can be divided into four main groups.

3. A _______ is an implement used to level the ground and crush the clods.

4. There are several types of cultivators _______ for special crops and conditions.

5. Planting equipment is any _______device introduced to place seeds or plant parts.

6. _______ are harvested by different kinds of harvesting equipment.

2. Choose the correct answer.

1. What is the aim of tillage?

1) to cultivate

2) to prepare the soil

3) to harvest

2. What is a plow designed for?

1) making the soil more fertile

2) preparing the suitable seedbed

3) placing seeds

3. How many components does a plow have?

1) 4

2) 7

3) 6

4.What is a bean cultivator designed to?

1) to cultivate beets

2) to cultivate beans

3) to cultivate weeds

5.What can a tractor pull?

1) many kinds of implements

2) food crops

3) feed crops

Text 2 What is agriculture?

1 Pre – reading tasks:

1. Vocabulary

agriculture – сельское хозяйство

animal – животные

apply - применять

breed – разводить

crop - культура

cultivation – обработка

develop – развивать

development – развитие

farm – ферма, хозяйство

field – поле

food – пища

grow – расти, выращивать

growth –рост

increase – увеличение

plant – растение

supply – снабжать

use – использовать

yield – урожай

2 Reading

1. Read the text:

What is agriculture?

Agriculture is an important branch of economy. Economic growth of any country depends on the development of agriculture which supplies people with food and clothing and industry with raw materials.

The word "agre" is a Latin word. It means the cultivation of fields in order to grow crops. Now agriculture also includes the use of land to breed

farm animals.

We do not know when people began to grow crops. It was many thousand years ago. Now crop production and animal husbandry are highly developed branches of agriculture.

Life is impossible without plants. They play a highly, important role in everyday life of people. Plants that ate grown by farmers are known as farm crops. They are used for many different purposes. Most of them are used directly as food for people, some are consumed by farm animals, others are used in industry and medicine.

In order to increase crop yields and animal products our collective and state farms apply widely intensive technologies.

3 Comprehension check

.Call equivalents following international words:

region, climate, machine, tractor, combine, bulldozer, to mechanize, tendency, tradition, traditional, industrial.