Vietnam - King of Coffee - VOA Special English Agriculture Report

This material for Listening skill material. This is for intermediate - advanced learners.
From this material, I provide a video, the exercises and also the answer key for each question.

Listen to the video carefully and answer the questions below based on the recording correctly.

Questions:

1.      Mention three importance points based on the recording?

2.      Is Vietnam became the biggest coffee exporter?

3.      What is the factor make Vietnam became the biggest exporter?

4.      Who is Le Ngoc Bau?

5.      What do you know about robusta beans?

6.      What did Vietnam expected in this year?

7.      What are the lacking things in their quantity and quality of robusta?

8.      What did Ma Choung said in the second year about a drip irrigation system?

9.      Who is John Owens?

10.  What will Trung Nguyen do in marketing the coffee products?

ANSWER KEY:

1.      First, reason why do Vietnamese agricultural policies may not help the country stay on top for long, Vietnamese wants to improve the image of his country's beans and in Vietnam a drip irrigation system financed by the company saves water and labor.

2.      Yes, it is.

3.      Because of bad weather n Brazil.

4.      Le Ngoc Bau is director of Vietnam's Western Highlands Agro-Forestry Scientific and Technical Institute.

5.      These have a strong taste and are often used to make espresso and instant coffee. They are higher in caffeine and considered lower in quality than top varieties.

6.      This year Vietnam is expected to pass Thailand by about half a million tons.

7.      They are lacking one thing. That is the packing industry, display industry and storytelling industry.

8.      In the second year after installing this system, productivity went up to fourteen hundred kilograms per hectare.

9.      John Owens is an American teaching English, who has come to enjoy the strong flavor of the local drip brew in Buon Ma Thuot, in Vietnam's coffee-growing heartland.


10.  Trung Nguyen is trying to change that by marketing new coffee products and working with farmers to improve quality and efficiency in production.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzAjbA0jitk)

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