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Macmillan Publishers Ltd 2005
Taken from the news section in
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Match the words with the definitions
1. diabetes
2. flood
3. cyclone
4.
rubbish dump
5. immigrant
6. turquoise
a. a very powerful tropical
storm
b. a person arriving from another country to live in a new country
c. a disease in which the body cannot process sugar
d. a colour that
is between green and blue
e. a place where people put waste
f. a situation where water covers the land
We use this when we mean that someone continues to do something, often
something negative.
Look at this example from the text:
The Tuvalans keep spending their dollars.
Make more sentences using these key words:
1. the sea/rise
2. the Tuvalans/buy/cars
3. they/build/roads
4. the temperature/go up
5. the Tuvalans/spend/their money
6. they/argue/about global warming