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Common social changeable folk latitudes violent prediction adventurous

5 Make up collocations matching the words from the box to the words 1-9 below. Use one word once only.

1....................complaint 4.........................wisdom 7 …................storm 2.......................weather mid and high 5................... 8...................routine 3........................factors methods of 6....................... 9...................souls

26 Build up adverbs as in a model. Translate them.

r egular + -ly regularly

increasing ............................ sensitive ................................ particular .............................. hard ........................................ especial ............................... day ..................................... hour ...................................... active ....................................

27 Form new words from given in the right column.

On Monday August 29, Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, Louisiana and Mississippi, leaving a trail of (1)…………………….. in her way. Katrina was the most feared of all (2)…………….. events, many people have questioned whether global (3)……….. may have contributed to this disaster. There is no (4) ……….. that Katrina either was, or was not, (5)…………..by global warming. For a single case such catastrophe is (6)……………...It is hard to know whether or not this event would have taken place if we had not increased the (7)………………….of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as much as we have. Weather events will always result from a (8) ………………………of (9)………… factors. Scientists determined there is a (10) ………..facts about links between hurricane activity and global warming. Taken from http://www.realclimate.org

DESTROY METEOROLOGY WARM PROVE AFFECT POSSIBLE CONCENTRATE COMBINE HARM STATISTICS

28 Fill the gaps with the prepositions.

about, on, out, from, upon

1 In the UK the weather depends ......... depressions, often called ‘lows’. 2 Today’s methods of prediction increasingly rely ........modern technology. 3 Although people in Britain often moan ...........the weather, they like talking about weather. 4 Some adventurous people seek ........... extreme weather conditions. 5 Old people suffer ....... heat.