Vocabulary In Use

1. Find the Ukrainian equivalents in the right-hand column for the following:

1) natural resources 2) plant diseases 3) field of wheat 4) chemical fertilizer 5) cow manure 6) fertile soil 7) harmful insects 8) crop farming

a) шкідники b) хвороби рослин c) родючий ґрунт d) хімічне добриво e) природні багатства f) землеробство g) поле пшениці h) коров’ячий гній

2. Match the synonyms:

insect seed crop soil manure harvest barn

earth plant yield bug shed grain dung

3. Put the words into the corresponding column:

fruit, an insect, vegetables, a combine harvester, berries,

a tractor, a bug, a harrow, aphides, cereals, a plough.

Crops	Pests	Equipment
fruit	.....	.....

Fill in the correct word.

Earth

ground

land

soil

1) Deep snow covered the........

2) After a few days at sea it was good to be back on......

3) Wheat prefers fertile clay......

4) The..... is the third planet from the Sun.

Match the verbs used to describe different agricultural activities with their definitions.

1) to plant 2) to harvest 3) to water 4) to spray 5) to plough 6) to weed

a) to dig and turn over a fields or other area of land b) to pour liquid on plants c) to put seeds in the ground to grow d) to remove unwanted plants from the ground e) to cover plants with very small drops of liquid f) to cut and gather crops