Farming - Listen and Read | Simple English for Beginners
This text about farming is an English exercise for beginners. Develop your reading and listening skills by reading and listening to this video. The text is simple, and the audio is fairly slow.
Step 1. Read and listen
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Transcript:
Farming is growing crops or keeping animals for food and raw materials. It is a part of agriculture.
Agriculture started thousands of years ago, but no one can say how old it is. The development of farming caused the Neolithic Revolution when people gave up nomadic way of life and became settlers. Some of those settlements turned intro cities later.
People started agriculture slowly by experimenting with some crops, but still gathered most of their food from the wild. Most likely, they started farming because the weather and soil began to change. Farming can feed more people than hunter-gatherers can feed on the same amount of land. This allowed mankind to survive, grow and develop.
Farming has been evolving for centuries and now is quite different from what it used to be. Nowadays, farmers use vehicles, modern tools and technologies. They use less land to produce more food.
People who do farming are called farmers. This has been the most common job since the beginning of civilization. It is still one of the most important professions in the world.
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