The Welsh farmer praying for rain – answers
true/false
- Sheep give Welsh farmers a good living. T: a lucrative industry
- The sheep create the Welsh countryside. T: they give it its distinctive look
- ‘Stream’ here has two meanings. T: stream – a small river and stream – a way of earning money
- Alan has just bought the hydro-electric power installation. F: he bought it 3 years ago
- The National Parks organisation paid for the hydro-power installation. F: they (him and his family) financed it themselves
- It will take a long time to get the money back (payback). F: it has already done this and it took just 2.5 years
- The water needs filtering before it is collected in the holding tank. T: ‘filter out the silt’
- The generator sits at the top of a small hill. F: it sits at the bottom (of a slope)
- Te electricity is just enough to power his house and farm. F: he has excess which he sells to the government and makes £7,000 per year
- The farmer keeps the lights on overnight in his house. F: he has lights on all night in the sheds during the lambing season (when the lambs are being born)
- There is a competition to find the greenest community in the UK. T this village has been given a grant to enter this competition
- Alan had to cut down several trees to create the plant. F: no trees were cut or ditches dug