Answer Sheet for Unit 12

Section 1: Vocabulary Practice

Exercise 1: Test Yourself

1. seed
2. root plants
3. fertile
4. wildlife
5. horses
6. Harvest
7. dairy-farming
8. fertiliser
9. field
10. sheep
11. abattoir
12. pig
13. barley
14. cattle; livestock
15. to plant
16. large-scale
17. fruit
18. forestry
19. to till
20. rotation
21. to grow
22. beans
23. farm
24. cow
25. grass
26. high-yielding
27. to cultivate
28. poultry
29. small- scale
30. mechanised
31. herd
32. cereals
33. market gardening
34. habitat
35. flowers
36. maize
37. land
38. agriculture
39. countryside
40. wheat
41. environment/al
42. biodiversity
43. organic
44. pesticide
45. vegetables
46. subsidy
47. policy
48. soil
49. crop

Section 2: Listening Comprehension

Exercise 1: Multiple Choice Questions

1. Around 1,000 million
2. In the developing world.
3. By large-scale commercial operations.
4. Chemical fertilisers
5. Biodiversity.

Exercise 2: Multiple Choice Questions

1. Families.
2. They use it for their own needs.
3. By producing single crops.
4. Computers.

Exercise 3: Multiple Choice Questions

1. He went to college .
2. 23 years.
3. His family have always been farmers.
4. Sheep.
5. To supermarkets and big companies.
6. Profits are getting smaller.

Exercise 4: Multiple Choice Questions

1. Grass, beans and cereals.
2. Maize and grass.
3. He only agrees with environmental subsidies.
4. Too much bureaucracy.
5. Tilled crops.

Exercise 5: Multiple Choice Questions

1. He produces vegetables, fruits and flowers for sale.
2. Simply to live on the land.
3. Vegetables and flowers.
4. They use systematic rotation and natural fertiliser.
5. People wanted to buy organic food.

Section 3: General Comprehension

Exercise 1: True/False Statements

1. TRUE
2. TRUE
3. FALSE
4. FALSE
5. TRUE
6. TRUE
7. TRUE
8. TRUE
9. FALSE
10. TRUE

Section 4: Grammar Practice

Exercise 1: Transformation

1. Mr Hill said he didn't grow bananas.
2. He said they only used natural fertiliser.
3. He said they had begun market gardening in 1984.
4. He said they sold some of their vegetables to the local shops.
5. Mr Bullock said farming had changed a lot.
6. He said his father and grandfather had been farmers too.

Exercise 2: Transformation

1. We don't use chemical pesticides.
2. We use a system of rotation.
3. I grow wheat and barley.
4. I think environmental subsidies are a good idea.
5. I've been a farmer for 23 years.
6. My father was a farmer too.

Exercise 3: Transformation

1. The interviewer asked Mr Bullock where his farm was.
2. She asked Mr Bullock how long he had been a farmer.
3. She asked him how many cows there were on his farm.
4. She asked him if he had many pigs.
5. She asked him what he grew on his farm.
6. She asked him if he thought subsidies were a good idea.

Exercise 4: Transformation

1. How long have you been a farmer?
2. How did you get into farming?
3. Has farming changed much?
4. How big is your farm?
5. How do you sell your produce?
6. Do you do mixed farming?

Exercise 5: Selections

1. She asked me to plant some flowers.
2. Mr. Bullock told me to put the cows in the field.
3. John Hill asked his wife to take the flowers to the market.
4. Maria said she would not use pesticides.
5. The farmer wants them to buy his horse.

Section 5: Consolidation

Exercise 1: True/False Statements

1. FALSE
2. TRUE
3. TRUE
4. TRUE
5. TRUE
6. TRUE
7. TRUE
8. FALSE
9. FALSE
10. TRUE

Exercise 2: Dictation

1. The business of farming is changing. In the last 50 years there has been a great deal of large-scale commercial monocrop farming, using pesticides, herbicides and fertilisers. This type of farming has become known as agribusiness. Nowadays, however, more and more people are becoming aware of issues related to health and nutrition, as well as the need to protect the environment.

Exercise 3: Cloze

1. demand
2. which
3. the
4. on
5. an
6. running
7. other
8. both
9. as

Exercise 4: Gap Filling

1. cultivated
2. skills
3. dairy
4. make
5. Market
6. of
7. used
8. long
9. to
10. part
11. best
12. highly
13. crops
14. every
15. mean
16. prevent
17. within
18. into
19. on
20. done