Exercise 10. Complete the sentences

Exercise 9. Find the sentences in the text about.

Exercise 8. True or False statements.

Exercise 7. Read and guess the flower.

1. The flowers open between April and October. The plant grows in the fields. This plant is found throughout Europe and Siberia. The flowers are tricolor. (Tricolor means consisting of three colours: the yellow, the purple and the black) The plant is annual, with thick root and rhizomes of 8 – 23 cm long.

2. This species has a short flowering season from June to July. The fruit becomes mature very quickly and may be seen on the plant until the following January. The plant has a very pleasant odour. Volatile oils which give the odour to this plant are widely used in perfumery. There are many species of the plant which grow wild and cultivated throughout the world. The plant was originally cultivated in Iran and then in China; through Turkey it come Europe. The plant may be of various colours but the most widely distributed is a rose colour.

3. The flowers open from April to June and have a very sweet odour. This plant grows throughout Europe and in Russia. It is found in the forests. During the latest period it has decreased in number and is already enlisted in the Red Book of our country. It is used in medicine in the treatment of cardiac diseases. Each plant has from six to twelve flowers in an inflorescence. The flowers are small, of white colour, leaves – 5 – 12 cm long, and grow in pairs.

1. Some medicinal plants are wild crafted, meaning that they are harvested in the wild by people who are skilled at plant identification.

2. Wild crafting can also be done to gather medicinal plants for mass production.

3. Cultivation also allows for mass production, which makes plants more commercially viable, as they can be processed in small numbers and priced high enough.

4. The history of studying and working with medicinal plants is quite long.

5. Some preparations are widely used in the conventional medical community as well; preparations of aloe, for example, are commonly used to treat cancer.

6. Sometimes plants cannot be cultivated, making wild crafting the only way to obtain them, and some people believe that wild plants have no medicinal properties.

1. the definition of the medicinal plants,

2. the history of studying and working with medicinal plants,

3. the wild crafted plants,

4. the cultivated plants

1. Medicinal plants are……

2. Herbal medicine is…..

3. Some people believe that……

4. Cultivation also allows……

5. Chemists are always interested in…..

6. Flowers are collected…..

7. Fruits may be collected …..

8. Garlic is used….

9. Little children like…..

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