Decide whether these sentences are true or false: 1. Logging is the main cause of deforestation.
2. Brazilian beef is not popular in Europe.
3. The US buys more Brazilian beef than the EU does.
4. Soyabean farming causes only a small percentage of deforestation.
5. In the 1970s and 1980s enormous ranching operations produced most of the beef in the Amazon
region.
6. The Brazilian government is spending money to help save the rainforest.
Match the animals with the meat: 1. cattle (cows)
2. sheep
3. pigs
4. hens
a. lamb
b. chicken
c. beef
d. pork
Fill the gaps with a preposition. Check your answers in the text. 1. Last year was a very bad year ______ the rainforest.
2. Cattle farming is the main reason ______ deforestation.
3. Logging is not a direct cause ______ deforestation.
4. The percentage of imports increased ______ 40% ______ 74%.
5. The report does not agree ______ the Americans.
6. Small ranchers sold their beef ______ local slaughterhouses.
Macmillan Publishers Ltd 2004
Taken from the News
section in
www.onestopenglish.com
Look at this sentence from the text: Soyabean farming in the Amazon region is increasing. This means that this activity is happening now and is continuing. We use the present continuous to talk about these processes. Make more sentences using the present continuous from these prompts. You can check your answers in the text. 1.
farmers
cut down
trees
2.
cattle ranchers
destroy
rainforests
3.
enormous ranching operations control
beef export market
4.
commercial ranchers
produce
beef and ...
5.
... they
sell
European supermarkets
6.
the rainforest
disappear
