Lesson 2. 1 crop plants and environment
Grammar and vocabulary activities
1. Translate the sentences from English into Russian, pay attention to the voice of the predicate, guess the meaning of the words in bold:
1. Our farm has been given some new crop varieties.
2. The agronomist was asked about the methods of weed control which are used on the farm.
3. The biologist will be shown the results of our experiments.
4. Many important problems are being solved by agriculturists of different countries.
5. Last week our farm was visited by a group of specialists in plant diseases.
2. Use the verb in brackets in the appropriate form.
1. Nowadays crop production (to increase) mostly by the use of improved cultural practices.
2. This plant (to grow) well on our farm.
3. All crops (to plant) and (to harvest) by farm machines on this farm.
4. Agriculturists of all countries (to work) much at the development of improved crop varieties.
5. High yields (to obtain) last summer.
6. Next year more food products (to produce).
7. Farms of our area (to raise) the yield of the most important food crops.
8. Many new achievements of biology (to use) in agriculture.
3. Form degrees of comparison from the following adjectives:
warm, favourable, small, necessary, good, little.
4. Determine by suffix the part of speech the following words belong to:
environmental, condition, relatively, development, respiration, erosion, environment, useful, uniformly, importance, chemist, evolution, special, productive, culture, selection, combination, warmer, practical, mechanization, botanist, irrigation, temperature, favorable, growth.
Vocabulary Focus
| Handwrite the words and word combinations related to text A and give their Russian equivalents. Check them in the agronomy and soil science dictionaries. |
| barley, corn, cotton, oats, potatoes, red clover, rye, wheat, sugar beets, small grains, grass, area, soil, climate, air, light, growth, growing season, humidity, environment, conditions, under conditions, to require, to influence, to supply, favourable, development, average, to affect, most, as, as well as. |
5. Read and translate text A.