2. Before you watch the video think what problems could be raised in it. Note them down. While Watching

1. According to this episode agriculture was the first great revolution. Decide which of the numbers given is correct.

1. Humans settled down

   1. after 200,000 nomadic years

   2. after 180,000 nomadic years

2. One person in four lives as humankind did

   1. 6,000 years ago

   2. 10,000 years ago

3. It’s the way of live

   1. 2,5 billion people

   2. 1.5 billion people

4. The invention of agriculture was

   1. less than 20,000 years ago

   2. less than 10,000 years ago

5. The energy of the sun captured over millions of yours by millions of plants

   1. more than 200 million years ago

   2. more than 100 million years ago

6. The Earth’s population has almost tripled

   1. in the last 50 years

   2. in the last 60 years

7. 3 million farmers on the United States produce enough grain to feed

   1. 2 billion people

   2. 4 billion people

8. A liter of oil generates as much energy

   1. as 200 pairs of hands in 24 hours

   2. as 100 pairs of hands in 24 hours

2. In this episode the invention of agriculture is discussed. Decide whether these statements are true (t) or false (f).

1. Agriculture gave birth to cities and civilizations.

2. Humans did not adapt varieties to their soils and climates.

3. Our principal daily concern is to feed ourselves.

4. Half of humankind tills the soil.

5. With coal began the era of humans who break free of the shackles of time.

6. In the last 60 years the Earth’s population has almost doubled.

7. The expansion of cultivated land and single-crop farming encouraged the development of parasites.

8. Bad harvests and famine became a distant memory.

9. Toxic pesticides are not harmful to humans.

10. In industrialized nations grain is transformed into biofuels.

3. Watch the episode again. Then look at these sentences and circle the correct information.

1. Humans chose to live

1. in wet environment

2. in dry environments

2. Even today the majority of humankind lives

1. in dry deserts

2. on the continents’ coastlines

3. Agriculture is still the world’s

1. most widespread legacy

2. most widespread occupation

4. Today over half of the world’s 7 billion inhabitants

1. live in cities

2. live in skyscrapers

5. In the last century three-quarters of varieties developed by farmers

1. have appeared

2. have been wiped out

6. If takes 100 liters of water to produce

1. 1 kilogram of potatoes

2. 1 kilogram of rice

After Watching Look at language

1. Write out the equivalents in pairs. Then make sentences with some of them.

destroy	sort
species	clement
exterminate	environment
provide	join together
toil	supply
similar	unusual (uncommon)
surroundings	subdivision of a species
gain	prodigious
manufacture	cultivate (land)
consume	pure
mild	acquire
clear	hard work
till	produce
enormous	make an end
combine	like
variety	wipe out
plot	use up
rare	piece of ground