EJERCICIOS LIBRO INGLÉS TEMA 6. El sector primario

6.7. AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES (pages 76 and 77)

Agricultura de regadío ………… irrigate agriculture or irrigate farming                                                

Agricultura de secano………………………...….. dry farming                                        

Aspersor……………………………………..…… sprinkler

Aspirar, pretender o tener el propósito..…………. aim (verb)             

Campo abierto…………………………………… open field

Campo cerrado/cercado……………….…………  enclosed field

Cerca, seto o valla…………………………….…. fence

Cuesta, ladera o pendiente…………………….… slope

Cultivo o agricultura………………………….…. farming

Diversidad de cultivos………………………..... crop diversity

(riego por) goteo ……………………………….. drip

Horticultura………………………………..……. market gardening

Huerto…………………………………………… market garden

Infraestructura de transporte de cercanías……… nearby transportation infraestructure

(riego por) inundación………………..………… flood

Inversión o dinero invertido………….………… input

Monocultivo………………………………….... monoculture

Negocios, empresa o comercio………………… business

Países desarrollados……………………………. developed countries

Países en vías de desarrollo…………….……… developing countries

Parcela……………………………………….… plot

Parcelas cercadas………………….…………… fenced plots (bocage)

Pastoreo…………………………………….….. pastoral farming

Poblamiento concentrado………...……………. concentrated community

Poblamiento disperso…………………………. scattered community

Policultivo…………………………………..…. polyculture

Producción o rendimiento………………….…. output

Productividad, rendimiento o cosecha……..…. yield

Sistema de producción agrícola………………. crop production system

Tierra (de cultivo)…………………………….. soil

Tierra de cultivo o tierra de labor…………….. farmland

Venta comercial………………………………. commercial sale

 

1.    Escribe en orden alfabético las palabras en inglés de la lista superior, y escribe su significado en castellano al lado.

2.    You seek synonyms for these words in the former vocabulary:

-          Bocage

-          Irrigate farming

-          Enclosed field

3.    Copy in your notebook each word with its definition:

Bocage, farmland, infrastructure, soil, yield.

· The fundamental systems serving a country, city, or area, as transportation and communication systems, power plants, and schools.

· The wooded countryside characteristic of northern France, with small irregular-shaped fields and many hedges and copses.

· An amount yielded or produced; a product. / A profit obtained from an investment; a return.

· The part of the earth’s surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock.

· A rural area where farming is practiced. / Arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops.