What’s the difference between straw and hay? Cattle and poultry? To sow and to plough? You’ll learn some farming and agriculture vocabulary in this episode of Aprender Inglés con Reza y Craig. Las notas del episodio y más podcasts para mejorar tu ingles están en: http://www.inglespodcast.com/  Shownotes and more podcasts to improve your English at: http://www.inglespodcast.com/  Voice message from Tania from Ukraine living in Spain ("Thank you a million") What is the fastest and easiest way to learn vocabulary? Read! Apps or notebook Memrise (flashcards) - Website: http://www.memrise.com/  Write words on Post-it notes and stick them around your flat or office Duolingo - Website: http://www.duolingo.com/Duolingo  (iOS /Android) Use mnemonics (memory tricks) - ‘rathaus’ Research show that it's better to write down vocabulary and other information by hand rather than digitally. Voice message from Juan from Argentina who’s in Australia Farming and Agriculture Barn - a farm building (granero) - Were you born in a barn? - Close the door! Have you ever been to a barn dance? Cattle - animals like cows and oxen (buey) used for meat or milk Poultry - chickens and turkeys, etc. Livestock (ganado) Dairy = made from milk - vaquería (farm), lechería (store, shop), dairy product (producto lacteo) Crops - (cosecha, cultivo) We had a bad corn crop this year. Maize is an important crop. (sweetcorn, corn on the cob) Crop rotation - The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil. Harvest - (cosecha, cosechar) ‘A bumper harvest’ = a very good harvest Vintage - Cosecha de vino To pick - (escoger, coger) pick flowers, fruit, grapes. You can pick grapes from a vine whick grows in a vinyard. Drought - sequía - Did you know that Spain imported water by ship in 2008? Drought in Spain’s northeastern region of Catalonia grew so severe in 2008 that Barcelona began importing water by ship from France. Soil (tierra) erosion Fertile land (producing crops) Fertilize (fertilizar) - fertilizer (fertilizante) Irrigation (irrigacíon, reigo) Orchard (fruit trees) an apple orchard, a cherry orchard ripe - maduro Pesticide (chemicals that you spray on crops) Hay - heno (dried grass) Hay bale/bale of hay - paca de heno Straw - paja To plough - arar To plant (plantar, sembrar) - to sow seeds To sow - sembrar. “To sow the seeds of...doubt (duda)/unrest (inquietud)” To reap - segar/cosechar. “To reap the rewards”= to benefit from good work/planning "You reap what you sow" Idioms to farm something out - to send work to someone to be done away from one's normal place of business; to subcontract work. “We farmed the podcasting editing out.” a funny farm – a hospital for people who are mentally ill Example: My grandmother had to send my uncle to the funny farm when she couldn’t take care of him at home anymore. Note (¡OJO!): This is a humorous or funny expression, but could be considered rude by some people. I’m so hungry I could eat a horse – to be very hungry until the cows come home – for a very long time I could record podcasts until the cows come home! the last (final) straw – the last of a series of events/annoyances/disappointments that lead a person to losing his or her patience/temper/hope “He’s been late a few times, but this is the last straw!” “Yesterday my neighbours were partying until 3pm. This was the last straw. I called the police. From the proverb: “It is the last straw that breaks the camel's back” spring chicken – a young person I’m no spring chicken! to make hay while the sun shines – (hay = heno) to take the opportunity to do something when the time and conditions are right - Work was going really well, so I decided to make hay while the sun shines and keep working for another 3 hours. don’t put all your eggs in one basket – don’t make everything dependent on one thing (same in Spanish) to reap what you sow – every action has a consequence; what you do comes back to you one way or another. If