Ex. 4. Complete the following table.

Verb Noun Adjective

1.produce production productive

2. nutrit nutrition nutritious

3.cultivate cultivation cultivative

4.preserve preservation preservative

5.transitie transition transitional

6.create creation creative

7. vary variety varietive

Ex. 5. Find proper definitions and study them.

Maintenance (підтримання)	a) smth in which one is interested or which is important; anxiety.
Concern (занепокоєння,турбота)	b) maintaining or being maintained; (esp) what is needed to support life.
Food (харчування, їжа)	c) way, path, road.
Approach (підхід)	d) that which can be eaten by people or animals, or used by plants, to keep them living and for growth.
Substitute (замінити, заміна)	e) highly valued object or person.
Treasure (скарб)	f) person or thing taking the place of, acting for or serving for another.
Transition (перехід)	g) changing, change, from one condition or set of circumstances to another.

1-b

2-a

3-d

4-c

5-g

6-e

7-f

Ex. 6. Find synonyms for:

Anxiety (trouble/unrest/worry)

Now (presently/just)

Progress (headway/ advance/progression)

Malnutrition (hunger/ starvation)

Illness (sickness/ disease)

Gains (revenue)

Way (path/road)

to manufacture (fabrication/ production/ making)

to promote (assistance/ aid)

to fulfill (performance, for)

to make less (lower/less than/smaller

to satisfy (to meet)

Ex. 7. Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words or phrases from the brackets given below:

1. Ironically, while hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are threatened by too little food, many others are threatened by overnutrition or too much food - making best-sellers out of the latest diet books.

2. The success of industrialized agriculture coupled with a favorable climate and fertile soils has been demonstrated by the dramatic increase in food production in the USA.

3. Producing a large enough quantity of food to feed the world’s population is only one of a number of complex and interrelated agricultural, economic, and environmental food problems.

4. In addition to food quantity, other major problems are food quality, food storage and distribution, economic incentives for growing food, and the harmful environmental effects of agriculture.

5. The good news is that thanks to improved agricultural technologies , practices, policies, and trade, world food production increased by 145% between 1950 and

Ex. 8. Read the passage filling in the missing prepositions:

Poor people living mostly on one or more plants such as wheat, rice, or com often suffer of undernutrition, or insufficient caloric intake or food quantity. Survival and good health require that people must consume not only enough food but food containing the proper amounts of protein, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins, and minerals. People whose diets are insufficient from these nutrients suffer from malnutrition.

Severe undernutrition and malnutrition lead to premature death, especially in children under age five.

Famine occurs when people in a particular area suffer from widespread lack of access on food as a result to catastrophic events such as flood, earthquake, or war. Because it is so visible and dramatic, famine receives most of the media attention.

Most world hunger is protein hunger because poor people are forced to live in a low-protein, high-starch diet of grain.

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