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goes on rising, this will damage the world economy, Reading and Use of English | Part 3
and that’ll probably lead to all kinds of political tensions
1 Suggested answers
– perhaps even wars. Who knows?
friend: friendship, friendliness, unfriendliness;
Examiner: Thank you.
befriend (unfriend – Facebook); friendly, unfriendly
5 Yes, they reach agreement. They decide that drought help: helper, helpfulness, helplessness; helpful,
poses the greatest threat. unhelpful, helpless; helpfully, unhelpfully, helplessly
know: knowledge; knowledgeable, knowing,
CD 2 Track 20 unknowing, unknown, unknowable; knowledgeably,
Examiner Thank you. Now you have about a minute to knowingly, unknowingly
decide which of the problems poses the greatest threat live: life, liveliness; lively, alive, lifeless
to us.
move: movement, removal; remove; moving,
Anna: Which one of these five do we think is going to be unmoved, movable, immovable; movingly, movably,
the biggest threat?
immovably
Lukas: It’s very difficult to say, isn’t it? They all pose
terrible dangers – but perhaps the time scale is nation: nationality, nationalist, nationhood;
different. nationalise, denationalise, renationalise;
national, international, multinational; nationally,
Anna: What do you mean?
internationally
Lukas: Well, they all affect us now, but in the future some sense: sensitivity, sensibility, sensitisation,
will get worse and some will improve.
desensitisation; sensitise, desensitise; sensitive,
Anna: Do you think so? insensitive, sensible, insensible, senseless,
Lukas: Yes, I do. For example, in the short term, I think sensitised, desensitised; sensitively, insensitively,
fossil fuel consumption poses the greatest threat, sensibly, insensibly
because it affects us now, but eventually we’ll run out of
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fossil fuels, which means that in the future we won’t be 2 1 inpossible impossible 2 demonstraters
able to consume them. By that time of course the other demonstrators, unstabilise destabilise
threats like air pollution, fires, flooding and droughts 3 discomfortable uncomfortable 4 caring careful,
will be worse because of increases in global warming. breakible breakable 5 unsatisfaction dissatisfaction
Anna: You could be right. So what are we going to 6 innovatant innovative 7 mistract distract
decide? Personally, I think drought is going to pose the 8 edable edible
greatest threat, especially if the population of the world
goes on growing. 3 1 finding 2 disappearance 3 environmentalists
4 creatures 5 clearance(s) 6 determination
Lukas: Yes, I think I agree. If harvests fail, millions of
people can starve to death, whereas at least in the case 7 national 8 reduction
of forest fires and flooding, people usually escape, even
though their lives may be changed for ever.
Writing | Part 1
Anna: OK, let’s say we think that drought poses the
greatest long-term threat. A proposal

1 1 F Proposals are normally written for
organisations, clubs, colleagues, etc.
2 T
3 F You should support suggestions and
recommendations with factual information.
4 T
5 F The style can be less formal if you are writing
for colleagues or fellow members of a club.

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