Учебное пособие по английскому языку для студентов ветеринарного отделения специальности «Технология Производства и Переработки Сельхозпродукции»

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Text 1. 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.

Learn the words.

agriculture - сельское хозяйство

animal - животные

apply - применять

breed - разводить

crop - культура

cultivation - обработка

development - развитие

farm - ферма, хозяйство

field - поле

food - пища

grow - расти, выращивать

growth -рост

increase - увеличение

plant - растение

supply - снабжать

use - использовать

yield - урожай

1. Call equivalents following international words:

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

2. What questions are answered in the text:

1. Из каких отраслей состоит сельское хозяйство?

2. Когда люди начали выращивать сельскохозяйственные культуры?

3. Может ли человек жить, не выращивая культуры?

4. О каких интенсивных технологиях говорится в тексте?

3. Answer the following questions

1. Why is agriculture very important?

2. What are the two branches of agriculture?

3. What does the Latin word "agre" mean?

4. Is life possible without plants?

5. Where are farm crops used?

6. How do people increase crop yields?