About three million people will move to the Toshka Valley. They will find land, new houses and jobs.

6- New farms are being opened there. Crops like cotton, tomatoes and wheat are being planted.

The crops will be sold inside Egypt or they will be exported.

Read and match:

a. The cost is enormous ()

b. New lakes with water from Lake Nasser ()

c. How water is transported from the lakes ()

d. How Toshka Valley will help Egypt ()

e. When the project started ()

Since 1997, the Egyptian government has been developing the Toshka Valley. It is a huge project. About 5 billion Egyptian pounds have been spent on desert land.

2- A huge canal was built to take water from Lake Nasser to the Toshka Valley. Soon, three enormous lakes formed in the valley. But how could they get water from the lakes to the land?

Now, a 300-kilometre-long concrete irrigation canal has been built to join the Toshka lakes with the Baris and Kharga oases. 25 million cubic metres of water a day are pumped from the Toshka lakes to farm land.

The project has not been easy. Building canals, pumping water and reclaiming land in the desert is expensive. New roads will need to be built to transport the crops to the rest of Egypt and for export.

However, the desert is already being turned into fertile land. Farms and towns are being built so we will export more food. The Toshka Valley Project will help our country enormously.

Read and ✔ Yes No Not in the text

a The Toshka Valley Project is finished. () () ()

b Toshka Valley has four lakes in it. () () ()

c The irrigation canal is made of concrete. () () ()

d The project is difficult and expensive. () () ()

e The Toshka Valley Project will be completed by 2020. () () ()

1- A big area of desert …………….. in the next three years.

a reclaimed b will be reclaimed c is reclaiming d reclaims

2- The number of people in Egypt …………….. by about one million every year.

a is growing b was grown c grew d will grow

3- The government hopes that more farms …………….. by 2020.

a opens b is opening c have opened d will be opened

4- There ……… enough farm land in the future without reclaiming land from the desert.

a wasn’t b hasn’t been c won’t be d is not

5- In future, crops from the Toshka Valley …………….. inside and outside Egypt.

a will be sold b are selling c sold d are going to sell

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