- Did you grow up on a farm? If not, have you ever visited a farm?
- Describe farms in your home country. Compare them with farms in Canada.
- What types of produce to farmers grow in your home province? What fruits, grains or vegetables are grown in other parts of your home country?
- Do you know what an acre is? How many acres is the average farm in your home country compared with the average farm in Canada?
- Which types of farm animals are the most common in your home country? Which types of farm animals are most common in North America?
- Which farm animals do you think are the dirtiest? Which are the most profitable?
- Would you like to be a farmer? Why or why not? What are the advantages and disadvantages of being a farmer?
- Are farmers respected in your home country? Do you think it is possible for a farmer to be wealthy?
- Have you ever bought any produce directly from a farm? What have you bought?
- What is a hobby farm? Would you want to own a hobby farm? What would you grow? Would you raise animals? Which kinds?
- What is the future of farming?
- What incentives can the government provide to make sure we have enough farms in the future?
- Do you have a large lot where you live? Do you, or would you ever, grow any food in your yard?
- Which do you think is better, organic food, or genetically modified food?
- Do you think that dairy farms are important? Name at least 3 products that come from dairy farms.
- Are fish farms important? Why or why not? Do you ever eat salmon? Do you check to see if it is wild or farmed?
- Canadians are concerned that good farmland is being taken over by land developers. How can Canada continue to have enough farmland but satisfy the needs of land developers?
- What effects do you think climate change will have on our farms? How can we prevent problems?
- Make sentences using the farming vocabulary in the table.
| Meadow | Fallow | Farmhouse | Fertilizer | Goat | Honeybee |
| Tractor | Agriculture | Insecticide | Herd | Coop | tend |
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