Unit agricultural subsidizing Lesson Agricultural Park Present Tense What is Present Tense?

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UNIT 1 AGRICULTURAL SUBSIDIZING

1. Agricultural Park
2. Local markets
3. Farm layout
Unit 1 Agricultural subsidizing
Lesson 1 Agricultural Park
Present Tense

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  What is Present Tense?
  

The present tense is a verb tense that describes a current activity or state of being. For example:

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  My parrot sings "The Sun Has Got Its Hat On" every morning.
  

(This is a current activity.)

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  I am happy.
  

(This is a current state of being.)





Exercise 1. Complete the sentences with the present simple or present continuous formof the verbs in brackets. Use contractions where possible.

1. 
   She_________________(run) because she's late for her lesson
   
2. 
   Our teacher always____________(give) us lots of homework.
   
3. 
   We_______________(not want) to go to the concert.
   
4. 
   What time______________(you / meet) Pete tomorrow?
   
5. 
   I________________(not work) today. I'm on holiday.
   
6. 
   People____________(speak) English in Jamaica.
   
7. 
   Archie_____________(not use) his computer at the moment.
   
8. 
   ________________(Tony / live) near the park?score
   

Exercise 2. Reading task. Matching Headings

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   US$700 billion every year – that’s how much governments worldwide provide in some form of subsidy to their agricultural sectors. Researchers behind the OECD’s “Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation 2020” report found that the 54 countries studied (all OECD and EU countries, plus 12 key emerging economies) provide over US$700 billion a year in total support to the agricultural sector. The vast majority of this, US$536 billion, is in the form of payments to producers; the rest takes the form of consumer support and enabling services such as infrastructure investment or research and development.
   

B. Subsidies are in part, a recognition of the unique challenges that the agriculture sector faces and the important role it plays in our society by ensuring food security. Farming is highly weather dependent and extremely vulnerable to uncontrollable events such as natural disaster. Agriculture also requires significant investment from producers in expensive equipment, inputs and labor before any profit can be made, and faces an obvious time delay between shifts in demand and supply.
C. However, agricultural subsidies can also have trade-distorting effects. For this reason, they are the basis of many international disputes. In the recently negotiated US-Mexico-Canada Agreement agricultural subsidies played a key role: Canadian dairy subsidies were perhaps the biggest agriculture-related sticking point for the US, and Mexican tomato subsidies continue to cause tensions. Across the globe Brazil, Australia and Guatemala have disputed India’s subsidies to its sugar industry.
D. The complaint from least developed countries is that global subsidies disproportionately disadvantage their small producers, whose own governments cannot provide the same support, leaving them unable to compete with the heavily-subsidized farms of richer countries. Communities say that foreign products, such as European milk, are flooding their markets, crippling local herders and farmers and leaving consumers vulnerable to price changes.

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   Ways to solve problems
   
2. 
   Benefits of food production
   
3. 
   Causes of food shortages
   
4. 
   International food research
   
5. 
   Problems of farmers