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Urban farming
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Follow advantages and challenges in an academic talk.
Listen to each sentence and write what you hear.
Audio and answer checking: https://joy-english.com/listening-lessons/urban-farming
Words to know
- artificial
- Made by people, not natural.
- vertical
- Going straight up.
- traditional
- Following old ways of doing things.
Answer key
- Urban farming means growing food inside cities rather than in the countryside.“Than” is weak: “th’n”.
- Some farms use rooftops, while others grow crops indoors under artificial light.The stress in “artificial” is on “fi”.
- Vertical farms stack plants on shelves to save space.The k of “stack” runs into “plants”.
- They use far less water than traditional farms.“Far less” means much less.
- However, the high cost of energy remains a serious challenge.“Remains a” links.